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Free-range eggs: Not as healthy as regularTainan, Taiwan (UPI) Jun 16, 2010 Taiwanese scientists say they've discovered that, contrary to popular belief, free-range chicken eggs might be less healthy to eat than regular eggs. Scientists at the National Cheng Kung University School of Medicine in Tainan, Taiwan, said they found free-range eggs in Taiwan contain at least five times higher levels of certain pollutants than regular eggs. In the study, Pao-Chi Liao and colleagues said free-range chickens are those that have continuous access to fresh air, sunshine an ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2010A new type of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has been developed which can efficiently ferment pentose sugars, as found in agricultural waste and hardwoods. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Biotechnology for Biofuels describe the creation of the new S. cerevisiae strain, TMB3130, which demonstrated significantly improved aerobic growth rate and final bio ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2010A top official at China's food and drug safety watchdog has been sacked and is under investigation, state media said, three years after the agency's former head was executed for corruption. Zhang Jingli, deputy chief of China's State Food and Drug Administration, is being investigated for "suspected serious disciplinary violations," the official Xinhua news agency reported. Zhang, 55, ha ... more  
Chicago (AFP) June 13, 2010The toll from a flash flood in the southern US state of Arkansas rose Sunday to 19 as a grim search through remote woodland turned up another body. Police would not give the sex or age of the latest victim but six young children and 12 adults were already known to have perished, swept from their beds in the dead of night by a lethal torrent of water. "To our knowledge, we only have one t ... more |
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Race against time to sanitize lead-epidemic hit NigeriaDareta, Nigeria (AFP) June 11, 2010 Armed with hoes and shovels, men clad in protective suits carefully and steadily excavate a layer of soil contaminated with dangerous levels of lead around a homestead in northern Nigeria. The farming village, one of six hit by a lead poisoning epidemic linked to illegal gold mining in northern Nigeria, has lost 61 children in recent weeks. Foreign environmental experts aided by dozens of young men from the village have slowly started the painstaking exercise to clean up homes with high lead con ... read more |
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