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Mandatory labeling on genetically engineered foods

Appealing Banana Substitutes

Labels alerting customers that products contain ingredients from genetically engineered plants may reduce sales, at least in the short term, according to a new study from a research team including an agricultural economist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. The study analyzed sales trend data from Vermont after a law went into effect requiring …

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CPAP Machines Authorized As Emergency Ventilator Alternatives

Orange County Declares Local Health Emergency

In a wide ranging emergency policy the FDA has authorized the use of continuous positive airway pressure machines and others to be used as emergency ventilator alternative devices to be used as potentially lifesaving ventilators as shortages begin to impact hospital responses across the nation to the COVID-19 outbreak. This emergency policy includes modified anesthesia …

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