Palmer amaranth is native to the Southwest United States, but has been expanding its range for at least 50 years. Most recently it has moved into the Midwest and has been reported in all Cornbelt states except for Minnesota and the ...
In an effort to increase awareness of the multi-faceted benefits of honey, the National Honey Board (NHB) announced a new partnership today with 3-time Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings, of beach volleyball fame. Balancing life as an ...
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A Washington food advocacy groups questions Coca-Cola's TV ad suggesting Olympic skier Ted Ligety's success is due to his consumption of it soft drink. The Center for Science in the Public Interest said Ligety ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published eight warning letters last week that were issued to food manufacturers and processors mainly in February. Reyskens Dairy in Custer, OH, and Ed Vander Woude Dairy in San Jacinto, CA, received ...
Anika Therapeutics (ANIK) has received marketing approval for MONOVISC from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients suffering from osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. MONOVISC is a single injection supplement ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published nine warning letters it issued to food manufacturers and processors at the end of January and the start of February. Orth Farms of Eaton, NY, B & E Dairy of Barstow, CA, and Hillegass ...
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A new type of whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test could be an alternative to standard positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging for assessing cancer in children and young adults, but without exposure to ...
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Product labels make consumers aware when they are buying products of certain quality features that they would be unable to assess without additional information. This is also the intention of the quality label from the independent ...
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The predominantly cotton based Indian textile industry, particularly Tamil Nadu textile industry which accounts for 47.5% of the spinning capacity, has been facing several challenges during the last five years on raw material front, ...
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The Annals of the American Thoracic Society has released a comprehensive supplement on the 56th annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference entitled "The Lung Microbiome: A New Frontier in Pulmonary Medicine." More than 170 ...
Smokers and other people at high risk for lung cancer could make matters worse if they take antioxidant supplements, a new study of rodents suggests. Antioxidants appear to accelerate cancer progression by short-circuiting one of the ...
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Since July 2013, the certification “STeP by OEKO-TEX” has been offering companies in the textile value-creation chain the opportunity to have their production plants independently evaluated and certified with regard to the use ...
System 180 has represented a universal construction kit system that can be used for furnishings as well as architectural tasks for more than three decades. This year, the Berlin manufacturer now is represented at imm cologne for the first ...
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Folic acid supplements at levels consumed by breast cancer patients and survivors in North America promoted the growth of existing breast cancer in rats, new research found. The role of folate, a B vitamin, and its synthetic form, folic ...
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Despite alfalfa’s declining acreage and use in many dairy rations, alfalfa breeders are excited about the legume’s future. The past two years, two companies have been putting considerable effort into building up their ...
Tags: Breeder, FGI, McCaslin, Robin Newell