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Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...
If we have an allergy to peanuts, strawberries or dairy, we are quick to blame our immune systems. But when we enjoy a ...
A BBC doctor has issued a health alert to anyone cooking this summer to watch out for something 'really common' that could result in serious sickness. Speaking on BBC's Morning Live, Dr Punam ...
The major retailer pulled the food items after it was deemed unsafe. And took the batches off the shelves due to the presence of Listeria monocytogenes. This is a type of bacteria that can ...
The winner of this year's World Food Prize, Mariangela Hungria ... spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that could act like fertilizer, boosting farmers’ harvests.
“It’s the end of a very gross era,” the hormone monster Maury (Nick Kroll) laments in one of the many fourth wall-breaking moments of the final season of Big Mouth. After eight years of ...
Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist in Brazil, spent decades looking for bacteria in the soil that ... Today, her work was rewarded with the World Food Prize, which recognizes advances in ...
If a pregnant woman eats contaminated food, this bacteria can sneak past her placenta and kill her unborn baby.
This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower. KUOW is ...
A number of foods carry a significantly higher risk of having a rare bacteria that causes a range of symptoms including diarrhoea, officials say. Listeria bacteria is primarily responsible for ...
“They’re going to use general anaesthesia to go up there and physically scrape off where the bacteria has been and really wash it and get all of the infected tissue out of there,” she said.
Listeria is a kind of bacteria that gets in food and can make some people sick. It won't affect most of us. But babies, seniors, pregnant women, and people whose immune systems are weak can have ...