food safety
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This New Gadget Could Detect Food Contamination in Minutes
When an outbreak of food poisoning hits, we trace our culinary steps backwards in an attempt to untangle the cause, hopefully before it can hit again. But a new sensor could radically change all that.
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The Real Reason People Are Still So Confused About Genetically Modified Crops
Amidst the clamour over genetically modified crops, there’s an underlying point that’s still being missed: Nobody really knows what constitutes a genetically modified crop.
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A Single Lab Tweak Stopped 270,000 Food Poisoning Cases A Year
Twenty years ago, a change was made to how the US did food poisoning testing. That change prevented over a quarter of a million cases each year, and it may also suggest how we could stop more cases in the future.
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America’s Food Safety Issues Will Make Your Stomach Turn
“We need bodies in the streets before we get it.” Yikes! That’s never what you want to hear from a food safety expert — but in a new episode of Retro Report, we learn just how realistic that statement is when it comes to food contamination in the US.