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Drug industry advocates join chorus to split FDA
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines.
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National assessment done on potential invasive snail and slug pests in US
Jul 31, 2009 |
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A collaborative team led by a University of Hawai'i at Manoa researcher has published the first-ever assessment of snail and slug species that are of potential threat to the nation's agriculture industry and the environment, ...
Government tightening food safety standards
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- New safety standards aimed at reducing salmonella and E. coli outbreaks are part of a government effort to try to make food safer to eat.
USDA confirms H1N1 in Minnesota pigs
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- At least one pig from Minnesota has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday, the first case of a pig contracting the virus in the United States.
Attempt to move Forest Service could spark turf war
Mar 01, 2009 |
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In what eventually could become a major bureaucratic turf war, there have been stirrings on Capitol Hill about moving the U.S. Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department.
Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.
Making Climate Forecasts More Useful to Farmers
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate forecasts are becoming more useful to farmers and ranchers, thanks to research by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their cooperators.
Purdue-developed tool can get most pollution control for the money
Jun 15, 2009 |
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There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue University may help sort out how to choose the best ones.
Survey finds slower decline of honeybee colonies
May 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The decline of honeybee colonies has slowed slightly since last fall, but a mysterious combination of ailments is still decimating the insect's population, federal researchers say.
Researchers unlock genetic secrets of date palm
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar have mapped a draft version of the date palm genome, unlocking many of its genetic secrets.
Scientists closer to developing salt-tolerant crops
Jul 07, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists has developed salt-tolerant plants using a new type of genetic modification (GM), bringing salt-tolerant cereal crops a step closer to reality.
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