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Foreign fruit fly found in Whangarei – Latest National News – Keep up with Newstalk ZB

January 22, 2014
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Foreign fruit fly found in Whangarei – Latest National News – Keep up with Newstalk ZB

January 22, 2014
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Food processors beware: Salmonella biofilms incredibly resistant to powerful disinfectants

January 16, 2014
| Filed under Agriculture and Research
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Food processors beware: Salmonella biofilms incredibly resistant to powerful disinfectants

(EurekAlert) Once Salmonella bacteria get into a food processing facility and have an opportunity to form a biofilm on surfaces, it is likely to be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to kill it, according to research published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Researchers from National University of Ireland, Galway conducted Read More »

January 16, 2014
| Filed under Agriculture, Biosafety, Public Health, and Research
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U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa

(The Japan Times) The U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa in the early 1960s, when the prefecture was still under U.S. rule, according to U.S. documents obtained by Kyodo News. In the tests, conducted at least a dozen times between 1961 and 1962, rice blast fungus was released over paddies to see how it Read More »

January 15, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agriculture, Biological Weapons, and International
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