"(CNN) -- Canadian health officials have linked a deadly listeriosis outbreak to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, prompting the company to expand of its recall of meat products. ...
Plutonium is the most dangereous form of nuclear material,milligrams can contaminate 100 to 1000 persons. In case itreaches somehow the Ozone layer, it is extremley dangerous.The LAB...
Experts are expecting at least 40 athletes in this year's Olympic Games to be caught with banned substances in their bloodstream. It comes in the wake of scientists discovering that of 152 products on the...
Wednesday June 25, 2008Residents in 108,000 homes in Northamptonshire are told to boil tap water after the cryptosporidium bug is found to have contaminated their water supplies. About 85 communities are affected by...
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As we continue to focus myopically on the chimera of climate change, a far more sinister ecological monster is rearing its ugly head and demanding our immediate attention. The global oceans have been our toilet...
Everything we eat is prone to becoming infected with harmful bacteria but, like many people, I've always felt that a good warm water washing of the fruit and veg was enough to rinse away the e.coli in my lettuce. It...
"After 14 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) devastating effects on the majority of Mexican farmers, Mexico’s food system now faces another serious threat: Genetically Modified (GM) corn. Illegally planted and unknowingly imported since the...
South Korea's worst ever oil spill has taken a tremendous toll on marine life, according to an official report. See here for previous NowPublic coverage on the disaster. "
SEOUL (AFP) -
South Korea's worst oil spill...
Ireland's water supply is under fire in new report published by Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."More than a third of private drinking water supplies and 8% of public water supplies in Ireland...
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What with train travel problems and winter vomiting lots of people here in the uk have still to return to work after the Christmas and New Year break - some people are heeding doctors warning to stay off work...
Any updates or additional information would be appreciated."Several suspected cases of Norwalk virus have forced the closure of a daycare in Burnaby.
The daycare, attached to Burnaby South Secondary School, closed...
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"Human trafficking flies below the radar of most people's consciousness, but it happens — even in New Orleans
By Sarah Andert
The Capri Hotel on Tulane Avenue was no place for human inhabitants in November 2005. Floodwaters from the levee breaches had inundated the building...
Here is the Merck Meningitis Shot Recall List"
ATLANTA - More than a million doses of a common vaccine given to babies as young as 2 months were being recalled Wednesday because of contamination risks, but the top U.S. health official said it was not a health threat. A...
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I have no words for this. Pure disregard for nature, lives...terrible.
"Congo arrests after toxic dumping
Miners examine find of copper stones
Katanga has one of the world's richest belts of copper and cobalt
Six people have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Food giant General Mills is recalling almost five million frozen pizzas (the brands are Totino's and Jeno's) because the pepperoni might be contaminated with E. Coli. Fortunately, Totonno's, probably the world's best...