Teaching people how to flavour food with spices and herbs was "considerably more effective" at lowering salt intake than having them reduce their salt intake on their own, according to research from the University of California. The ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border. This initiative is ...
Tags: Agriculture, EPA, Certification
(Left to right) Michael Markus, WateReuse California president; Erik Johnson, divisional technical manager, Tuftex; Bill Woyshner, divisional environmental health and safety manager, Tuftex; and Paul Klein, WateReuse California past ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Chemetall, one of the leading developers, manufacturers, and suppliers of specialty chemicals, will attend the 2014 National Coil Coating Association's Annual Meeting on April 7-9, 2014 in Napa, California (USA). Chemetall has actively ...
Tags: Coil Coating, Coating, Construction, Decoration
PrimusLabs has selected Roka Bioscience's Atlas System, an automated molecular system for food pathogen detection. The company will install the pathogen detection system at its microbiological laboratories in California, Arizona, and ...
Tags: Food, Agriculture, food safety testing
UK-based 'wholefood' breakfast cereal brand Jordans has launched its Crispy Oat Clusters and Crunchy Oat Granola across Australia following a trial in 2013. Jordans was founded in 1972 by Bill and David Jordan, but Holme Mills, the home ...
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Reaching the landmark achievement much faster than previously believed possible, this result surpasses Cree's previous R&D industry-best of 276 lumens per watt announced just over a year ago. Cree Reaches 303-LPW LED Milestone"This is ...
Tags: LED, Lights, Lighting, Solid State Lighting
Continuing its ‘Mid-Power March’ series of product announcements, Philips Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that its LUXEON 3535 2D mid-power LED (launched in May 2013) has had its typical flux output boosted by 10%, delivering ...
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The World Trade Organization has ruled in favour of the US, Europe and Japan in a dispute with China over its export restrictions on rare earth. China's rare earth industry – responsible for almost 90% of global output – ...
Tags: Rare Earth, rare earth export
Armstrong Century Farm Hardwood Flooring used on NBC's "American Dream Builders" renovation competition. Armstrong and Bruce flooring products were used on NBC's new reality competition series, "American Dream Builders," which premiered ...
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The Westfield Group announced new retailers at four shopping centers in Northern California, expanding its signature Luxury Collection at Westfield Valley Fair and adding new offerings at Westfield San Francisco Centre, Westfield Galleria ...
US Gulf Coast crude stocks climbed to their highest level on record in the week that ended Friday, hitting 200.3 million barrels, as growing pipeline capacity from Cushing, Oklahoma, sends barrels surging south, according to data released ...
Tags: Crude Stocks, pipeline capacity, refinery
Researchers in France have reported on solar cell devices based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [Sirona Valdueza-Felip et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p032301, 2014]. Conversion efficiencies of up to 2% ...
Tags: Solar Cells, InGaN
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) joined representatives from the Moapa Band of Paiutes, executives from cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and the Los Angeles Department of ...
Tags: Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Electrical, Electronics, Solar
The US ethanol industry will ask the Supreme Court to hear its challenge to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard, two trade groups said Thursday. The Renewable Fuel Association and Growth Energy petitioned the high court to overturn the ...
Tags: Ethanol Industry, Ethanol, oil industry