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 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:35:01 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>FDA Advisory: Avoid Unintentional Exposure of Children and Pets to Evamist</title>
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  <description>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that inadvertent exposure to Evamist through skin contact with patients using this product has the potential for adverse effects in children and pets.</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:21:02 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Former CEO of Seafood Importing Corporation Sentenced to Federal Prison for Importing Falsely Labeled Fish</title>
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  <description>Former CEO of Seafood Importing Corporation Sentenced to Federal Prison for Importing Falsely Labeled Fish</description>
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  <title>Ear bones reveal spawning secrets of Lake Erie walleye</title>
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  <description>Ecologists have long believed that fish tend to return to the same river where they hatched in order to spawn. But researchers at Ohio State University have determined that the old rule doesn't always apply -- not for Lake Erie walleye, at least. Using a</description>
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  <title>Gender-bending fish on the rise in southern Alberta</title>
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  <description>Chemicals present in two rivers in southern Alberta are likely the cause of the feminization of fish say researchers at the University of Calgary who have published results of their study in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.</description>
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  <title>Highlight of the Polarstern expedition</title>
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  <description>The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association for the first time sent its autonomous underwater vehicle on an under-ice mission at about 79 degrees North.</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:17:02 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling in some areas</title>
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  <description>Parts of the Arctic have cooled clearly over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990 also there. This is the finding of a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years produced by tree rings from regions beyond th</description>
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  <title>Super-rare 'elkhorn' coral found in Pacific</title>
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  <description>An Australian scientist has discovered what could be the world's rarest coral in the remote North Pacific Ocean. The unique Pacific elkhorn coral was found while conducting underwater surveys of Arno atoll in the Marshall Islands, by coral researcher Dr.</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:17:21 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>DulcerÃ­a Chepito Emite una Alerta por Alergenos en Sus Productos "Almejas"</title>
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  <description>DulcerÃ­a Chepito localizada en Cabo Rojo, PR estÃ¡ llevando a cabo un recogido voluntario del producto "Chepito Dulces Tropicales - Almejas" empacados en unidades de 6 oz. Este producto contiene huevos y no estÃ¡ declarado en la etiqueta. Personas que so</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:21:02 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>FDA Approves Drug for Chronic Drooling in Children</title>
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  <description>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cuvposa (glycopyrrolate) Oral Solution to treat chronic severe drooling caused by neurologic disorders in children ages 3 years to 16 years.</description>
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  <title>Dulcería Chepito Emite una Alerta por Alergenos en Sus Productos "Almejas"</title>
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  <description>Dulcería Chepito localizada en Cabo Rojo, PR está llevando a cabo un recogido voluntario del producto "Chepito Dulces Tropicales - Almejas" empacados en unidades de 6 oz. Este producto contiene huevos y no está declarado en la etiqueta. Personas que son a</description>
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  <title>Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them</title>
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  <description>In a finding that says much about the people who lived in northern Africa 5,000 years ago, scientists believe domestication of the donkey was achieved by nomadic people responding to the growing borders of the Sahara. Scientists also determined the endang</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:17:03 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Scientists uncover global distribution of marine biodiversity</title>
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  <description>A team of scientists have mapped and analyzed global biodiversity patterns for over 11,000 marine species ranging from tiny zooplankton to sharks and whales.</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:17:03 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>New study reveals decline of marine phytoplankton over the past century</title>
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  <description>A new article published in the July 29 issue of the international journal Nature reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as "phytoplankton" have been declining globally over the 20th century.</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:17:03 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Biggers & Callaham, Llc Dba Mice Direct Recalls Frozen Reptile Feed Because Of Possible Health Risk</title>
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  <description>Biggers & Callaham LLC., D/B/A Mice Direct of Cleveland Georgia is recalling frozen reptile feed (mice, rats, chicks), because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella . Salmonella can affect animals and there is risk to humans from handlin</description>
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  <title>New Early Detection System Helps FDA Identify More than 100 Food Safety Problems in First 7 Months</title>
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  <description>More than 100 food safety reports were submitted by industry to the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationâ€™s new electronic portal in its first months of operation, the agency said today.</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:21:02 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Cow-a-bella -- making eco-friendly diesel fuel from butter</title>
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  <description>The search for new raw materials for making biodiesel fuel has led scientists to an unlikely farm product -- butter. In a new study in ACS' bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they report that butter could be used as an eco-friendly fee</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:17:26 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>GM crop produces massive gains for women's employment in India</title>
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  <description>Research at the UK's University of Warwick, and the University of Goettingen in Germany, has found that the use of a particular GM crop in India produced massive benefits in the earnings and employment opportunities for rural Indian women.</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:17:03 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Voluntary Recall of PreserVision® Eye Vitamin AREDS 2 Formula in the United States</title>
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  <description>Bausch + Lomb is conducting a voluntary recall of its PreserVision® Eye Vitamin AREDS 2 Formula with Omega 3 soft gels, only available within the United States. Bausch + Lomb chose to initiate this recall based on a small number of reports predominantly w</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:21:02 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>When flowers turn up the heat</title>
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  <description>Could a "hot" flower attract pollinators by serving as a reward in a plant-pollinator mutualism? Many flowering plants produce nectar and pollen as rewards in exchange for pollination services by insects and other animals. Interestingly, however, a few pl</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:17:20 PDT</pubDate>
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  <title>Alcohol reduces the severity of rheumatoid arthritis</title>
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  <description>Drinking alcohol may reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis according to new research published on Wednesday in the journal Rheumatology. It is the first time that this effect has been shown in humans. The study also finds that alcohol consumption re</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:19:18 PDT</pubDate>
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