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Senate moves food safety bill forward
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration food safety bill sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., finally moved forward Oct. 22, with a hearing in the Senate, while a key food lobbyist predicted President Obama would sign a food safety bill in early 2010. Outbreaks of foodborne illness from FDA-regulated spinach, peppers, peanut butter and pistachios have created momentum for a modernization of FDA's rules and
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FDA wants comments on recordkeeping for microbiological testing, corrective measures for bottled water
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U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration has
amended its bottled water regulations regarding testing and follow-up testing of source water for coliform organisms. The agency has submitted the a proposed collection of information to OMB for review and clearance. The agency must receive written comments on the collection of information by Nov. 27.
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Survey: Affluent shoppers will pay more for safe, healthy food
Progressive Grocer
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A new national survey of more affluent consumers from strategic marketing communications firm Context Marketing, "Beyond Organic -- How Evolving Consumer Concerns Influence Food Purchases," has found that most respondents are highly concerned about the safety of the food they buy and would pay more for food they believe to be safer or
healthier. The research also found that assurances about what a food doesn’t contain, such as pesticides or antibiotics, matter a great deal to these consumers, along with ethical claims that reinforce quality and safety perceptions.
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Some intriguing ways to improve the world's health
The Economist
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Challenges are all the rage in science this week. Besides the Centennial Challenges organised by NASA, America’s space agency, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations are also in the news. This program, which is open to researchers from around the world, is intended to provide seed money for the development of ideas that
might improve the health of those living in poor countries.
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Using business intelligence software
BusinessWeek
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How can small businesses ensure they are giving employees access to information that lets them make decisions quickly, easily, and intuitively? Today, business intelligence software—long used by Global 1000 organizations—is being adopted by many small businesses to help meet these needs. However, while BI software may be useful to many small businesses, it’s important to take budget constraints, appropriate
features, and support requirements into consideration.
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How blowing up your business can drive innovation
Forbes
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Last week I pounded on folks for being wimps and not making decisions, said Mike Figliuolo, the article's author. Out of fairness, many of you want to move your organizations forward but might not have all the tools or resources to do so, Given that, I'd like to provide you some explosives.These are the good kind of explosives. The kind that enable you to blow
up your business model and find innovative new ways of doing things.
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Vegetables can protect unborn child against diabetes
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New evidence is emerging for how important it is for pregnant women to eat good, nutritious food. Expecting mothers who eat vegetables every day seem to have children who are less likely to develop type 1 diabetes, a new study revealed. "This is the first study to show a link between vegetable intake during pregnancy and the risk of the child subsequently developing type 1 diabetes, but more studies of various kinds
will be needed before we can say anything definitive," according to a researcher and clinical nutritionist.
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Mortality rates reduced among children whose mothers received iron-folic acid
supplements
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
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Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that other supplement combinations,including the multiple micronutrient supplement,
did not confer the same benefit.
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Vitamin D supplements show anti-diabetes potential
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Supplements of the sunshine vitamin may improve insulin resistance and sensitivity, both of which are risk factors for diabetes, says a new study from New Zealand. Insulin resistance, whereby insufficient insulin is released to produce a normal glucose response from fat, muscle and liver cells, was significantly lower in women following high-dose vitamin D
supplementation, a recent trial.
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Wind industry uses federal grants to add capacity
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Armed with nearly $1 billion in federal grants, wind farm developers installed more capacity and got projects off the drawing board in the third quarter. Yet turbine manufacturers struggled amid excess supply, a trade group reported. The 1,649 megawatts of capacity installed from July through September _ enough to serve the equivalent of 480,000 average households _ was about 18 percent more than the year-ago quarter,
the American Wind Energy Association said.
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Living close to food is good for your waistline
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Living far away from food may make you fatter. That was the surprising finding of a group of University of Utah
researchers, who looked at the body mass index of 500,000 Salt Lake County residents and compared those who live within a half-mile of retail food outlets to those who don't. People who have closer food options -- whether supermarkets, restaurants or fast food -- were 10 percent less likely to be obese, they discovered.
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Decline in fitness accelerates after age 45
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Fitness levels decline with age and accelerate after age 45 in men and women, a new study says. But staying at a
healthy weight and engaging in regular physical activity can help. "The U.S. population is aging and is becoming more obese and sedentary," Andrew Jackson, PED, from the University of Houston and colleagues write in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "It is well documented that the cardiorespiratory fitness of men and women declines with age and that body composition and habitual physical activity are related to cardiorespiratory fitness."
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Green spaces boost the body and the mind
HealthDay News via Medline Plus
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The closer you live to nature, the healthier you're likely to be. For instance, people who live within 1 kilometer of a park or wooded area experience less anxiety and
depression, Dutch researchers report.The findings put concrete numbers on a concept that many health experts had assumed to be true.
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