Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:00:00 PST Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111112/01464716748/dailydirt-growing-food-safely.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111112/01464716748/dailydirt-growing-food-safely.shtml

A study of over 200 pregnant women indicates that there is a possible link between eating rice (grown in the US!) and consuming potentially harmful levels of arsenic. Apparently, the arsenic comes from years of pesticide use where rice is grown, and unfortunately, there aren't any legal limits for arsenic in most foods sold in the US. [url]

Farmers are looking to kill off stink bugs without pesticides using parasitic wasps. But first, researchers need to determine if releasing the wasps won't cause even more problems with farm crops and the environment. [url]

Strains of Escherichia coli on bean sprouts that caused food poisonings and deaths in Germany may have come from human sources. Japanese researchers suggest a remedy of soaking the veggies in strong vinegar to kill off these nasty bugs. [url]

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There's possibly some "honey laundering" going on in the US -- where tainted honey from China is smuggled into the US market without proper country of origin labels. The yuck factor of this story almost triggers an urban legend skepticism... [url]

Those organic strawberries from California might not be as organic as you think. Apparently, just about all strawberry plants come from plant nurseries that are not "organic" because they use pesticides. [url]

Watching fish that were over-soaked in sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) as they cook is not very appetizing. Don't watch this video if you like seafood. [url]

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]]> urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20110315/12575413511 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/10381714860/dailydirt-biotech-bugs.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/10381714860/dailydirt-biotech-bugs.shtml

Engineered algae could help clean up radioactive waste. These little organisms might significantly reduce the amount of nuclear waste just by separating lots of harmless calcium from radioactive strontium. [url]

One small step for man, one giant leap for yeast: multicellularity! Countdown until somebody tries to breed monkeys in a centrifuge... [url]

Entomologists are looking at insect genes to try to find potential pesticides that bugs are genetically susceptible to. This doesn't sound like the beginning of a scary bio-virus horror flick at all. [url]

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