Rice is king — the food staple of the world. It is also a political lightning rod and the newest battleground in the GM crop war. Golden rice, created in the late 1990s, offers a lifeline to millions of children that die each decade ...
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Leather furniture is made using many different types of leather that are created using different processes.That is what accounts for the different look,feel and quality of leather furniture,and ultimately even how to clean it. Leather ...
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Ventrix said that its VentriGel biomaterial scaffold has shown potential to prevent heart failure following heart attack in a pre-clinical study. VentriGel is injected in a minimally-invasive procedure using a catheter to repair damaged ...
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With the ever-growing trend of car buyers flocking to SUVs, it has been pretty obvious for much of the past decade that most owners hardly ever take their off-road-capable vehicles, well, off-road. So what about the not-so-off-road-friendly ...
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BlackBerry last night launched BlackBerry 10 across the world – dubbed ‘the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry’ platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience. Available on two new ...
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A new web page from the National Pig Association will show whether food retailers and processors have pledged to stop sourcing pork meat produced illegally in the European Union. Around 40% of pork products imported to the UK from ...
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In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...
Japan's Itochu is eyeing a stronger foothold in China after agreeing to take a 33% stake in Canadian pork processing group HyLife. Itochu said late last week it has acquired a 33.4% stake in Manitoba-based HyLife for JPY5bn (US$56m). ...
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UK pig producers have warned that around 40% of pork products imported from the European Union are illegal, following yesterday's (1 January) introduction of new EU welfare regulations that ban the use of stalls in pig rearing. ...
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Stehouwer's Frozen Foods, a Michigan establishment, is recalling 6,039lbs of Pigs in the Blanket products as they contain milk, an ingredient that is not mentioned on the label, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety ...
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In consonance with the economic undulations prevalent in much of the developed world the steel market has been playing second fiddle. With whole of 2012 washed off in guess work about turnaround in the economic crisis in Europe and USA ...
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In the first three quarters of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled ...
Volatility in global commodity markets remained a significant factor for the food industry during 2012. On the one hand, adverse weather conditions hit grain harvests causing prices to spike, while on the other, over-supply has meant cocoa ...
The Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully moved its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system, and all the work was done in-house. The decision to keep the work in-house prompted much debate and skepticism, but there was no ...
Russian meat processor Cherkizovo has reported a jump in first-half earnings as profits from each of its three businesses increased. Net income was up 56% to RUB2.95bn (US$94.4m) for the period to the end of June. Operating income ...
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