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Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. This terrific book picks up where I left off with Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (2015) and Unsavory Truth: How the Food Industry Skews the Science of What We Eat (2018). Susan Greenhalgh’s focus, however, is on ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute (now renamed the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences).
It has been quite the past week in covering the events leading up to the Canada-wide rail strike and lockout. Then on Thursday afternoon, just 17 hours after the lockout began, the federal labour minister initiated Section 107 to force binding arbitration through the Canada Industrial Relations Board. With the union serving a new 72-hour.
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Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, both of RealAgriculture and Tyler McCann with Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, for the RealAg Issues Panel. They discuss a number of topics including: The latest strike news; The lead up to the U.S. Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio.
Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner, both of RealAgriculture and Tyler McCann with Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, for the RealAg Issues Panel. They discuss a number of topics including: The latest strike news; The lead up to the U.S. Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio.
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The material could be easily adapted for a variety of medical, consumer and industrial applications. The post New recyclable adhesives could serve as surgical superglue appeared first on Berkeley News.
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