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• Cuba limits sales of food so all can eat
HAVANA - Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough — barely — to go around. The lines are long and some foods are scarce, but because the ...
• Tiny bit of melamine in food is OK, experts say
WASHINGTON - Eating a tiny bit of a melamine, the chemical responsible for a global food safety scare, is not harmful except when it is in baby formula, U.S. food safety officials said Friday. Melamine-tainted formula has sickened more than 54,000 ...
• Animals have personalities, too
Duck food Weissing and his colleagues ran various model simulations of scenarios that included a resource as well as responsive and unresponsive animals . He said the new model shows, for example, when it's optimal for animals to react to a change in ...
• Homeless man dies after being set ablaze
People gave him food, clothes and spare change. "This is a terrible shame. He didn't deserve this. It's so cruel," said Jose Antonio Gonzalez, who owns a vitamin shop near where the man was found. Gonzalez said some longtime residents called the man ...
• West Loop Bar Louie Closed For Rat Feces
We take food safety seriously, and these are the types of unacceptable violations that leave the door wide open for food borne illness," said Chicago Department of Health Commissioner Terry Mason. "Bar Louie will not be allowed to re-open until it ...