The UK Food Standards Agency(FSA)is advising people that eating lead-shot game on a frequent basis can expose them to potentially harmful levels of lead.The FSA has advised frequent consumers of lead-shot game to eat less of this type of ...
Global pharmaceutical company Sucampo has received a supplement approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for updates to AMITIZA (lubiprostone) pregnancy labeling. The approval removes pregnancy 'warnings and precautions' ...
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As an agricultural people, the Buyi worship the Land. Outside every village there is usually a Temple of the Land, inside which there are usually two stones that represent the Father Land and the Mother Land. They sacrifice a chicken or a ...
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Ariosa Diagnostics has announced the availability of Harmony prenatal test in the US and Canada through Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) and Integrated Genetics. The non-invasive test uses a directed approach to ...
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Pickled cabbage contaminated with E.coli has led to a massive food poisoning outbreak in Japan,resulting in seven deaths and 100 cases of illness in the country. The pickled cabbage was produced by Iwai Shokuhin-a company based in ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to eat cantaloupes from Burch Equipment, a firm based in North Carolina, as they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono). This warning comes after Burch ...
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Women everywhere are discovering a miraculous secret weapon that supports them in all the right places. Hold Your Haunches is an innovative line of pants for women that compress, tighten and create the appearance of being up to 10 pounds ...
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Reichel Foods, an establishment based in Rochester, Minnesota, is recalling 15,880 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products as they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to US Department of Agriculture's Food ...
Don't 1: At the proposal meeting, the groom's family will present the bride with an alive goose. The bride's family should not kill the goose and eat it because the goose represents the groom. If the goose is quiet when it is turned over ...
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Four Seasons Diary,a US-based food manufacturer,has announced the recall of its herring product over Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The company issued a voluntary recall of its Fillet Atlantic Recipe in Oil after Listeria was ...
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Cotton Australia has issued its first pre-season comment on prospects for the 2012-13 cotton season. CEO Adam Kay said the new crop year was pregnant with both problems and opportunities, but on balance the positives should outweigh the ...
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Isabella Oliver Ltd, home to the UK's largest and leading premium maternity brand, Isabella Oliver, and the newly rebranded Baukjen womenswear collection, reported their September sales were up 75% year-on-year with sales of £1.5 ...
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Destination Maternity Corporation, the world's leading maternity apparel retailer, opened the first Destination Maternity store in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This brings the total Destination Maternity store count in the Middle East ...
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There's been a lot of buzz lately about the safety of energy drinks and shots. Following reports of harmful reactions and even deaths possibly associated with the products, two U.S. senators recently released a letter from the FDA stating ...
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Building upon more than ten years of advocacy by Cividep-India, Fair Labor Association (FLA) commissioned this study into the provision and quality of legally mandated childcare in Bangalore's garment factories. The study was ...
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