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Researchers connect climate change to food safety
2015-03-06 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change can affect our food safety in a number of ways. In a European study, researchers at Wageningen University and Ghent University (Belgium) state that there is often a relationship between long-term changes in temperature and rainfall and vegetable and fruit contamination. For example, flooding may result in increased concentrations of harmful bacteria that can be quickly broken down again by UV light. Similarly, in one region fungi that produce toxins may increase due to global warming,...
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