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Helping Safeguard Both Food and Worker Safety
2015-11-04 17:59:00| Food Processing Technology
A food processing plant in Napoleon, OH, processes vegetables such as tomatoes, celery, parsley, lettuce, spinach and carrots in various soups and juices distributed across the US.
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Why supermarkets love of use-by dates leads to food waste
2015-11-04 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rekindled by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls War on Waste programme, contributions to the seemingly intractable food-waste debate are piling up like an overstuffed compost bin. Environment secretary Liz Truss admitted that she ignores best-before dates; hardly a shocker that, because most people who have a grasp of the keeping properties of food do the same. Such is our creeping disillusionment with supermarkets, many of us are now inclined to trust our intuition as to whether a food can safely be...
Cancer-Stricken South Jersey Boy Asks For Food
2015-11-04 04:59:26| Chemicals - Topix.net
"We have nothing to eat tonight and I wanted to ask if anybody can, somebody can help us," the boy said in the below video. "We have nothing to eat tonight and I wanted to ask if anybody can, somebody can help us for tonight and tomorrow night..." That's the message 13-year-old Dylan Kenny of New Jersey leaves in a video that has now gone viral, voicing his family's struggle since he was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma.
Abrupt changes in food chains predicted as Southern Ocean acidifies fast
2015-11-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Southern Ocean is acidifying at such a rate because of rising carbon dioxide emissions that large regions may be inhospitable for key organisms in the food chain to survive as soon as 2030, new US research has found. Tiny pteropods, snail-like creatures that play an important role in the food web, will lose their ability to form shells as oceans absorb more of the CO2 from the atmosphere, a process already observed over short periods in areas close to the Antarctic coast. Ocean acidification...
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Merck Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation from U.S. Food and Drug Administration for KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
2015-11-02 14:00:00| Merck.com - Product News
Dateline City: KENILWORTH, N.J. Designation Based on Results in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer with High Levels of Microsatellite Instability KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab), the companys anti-PD-1 therapy, for the treatment of patients with microsatellite instability high (MSI-H) metastatic colorectal cancer. This is the third Breakthrough Therapy Designation granted for KEYTRUDA. Language: English Contact: MerckMedia:Pamela Eisele, 267-305-3558orKim Hamilton, 908-740-1863orInvestor:Teri Loxam, 908-740-1986orJustin Holko, 908-740-1879 Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE read more
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