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Food bug’s Latin link – Deadly E. coli strains may have come from South America
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Little chocaholics – Harmless microbes with a sweet tooth can make chocolate crack up
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Focus : Out of the frying pan – Food irradiation should help to reduce food poisoning, and fears over its safety have proved unfounded. But could it also be used to cover up sloppy hygiene in the preparation of food?
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Fallow ground – Farmers need better incentives to foster plants and wildlife
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Is anything safe to eat? – More Britons were poisoned by their food in 1997 than ever before
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Drunk as a skunk – If hangover research ends up with people falling over in the lab, how on earth can we ever find a cure? Our man down the pub, Andy Coghlan, forced himself to find out
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In mint condition . . . – Metallic mist saves Europe’s oldest treasure-trove
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Beating the deadline
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The plastic six-pack – Artificial muscle can be built from layers of polymer film
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Flower power
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That’s us stuffed then – People living near turkey farms harbour drug-resistant bacteria
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Bursting the heart of tumours
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