Nitrofuran in non-Soil Association chicken, UK
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The UK Food Standards Agency is advising people not to eat certain batches of organic chicken found to contain traces of nitrofuran (a banned antibiotic used to make chickens grow faster).
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Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer.
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Gardeners join boxers on at-risk list Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have found an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease among those exposed to pesticides.â¦
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.
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By Flory, Gary A; Peer, Robert W; Bendfeldt, Eric S  Virginia state agencies study methods for small-scale carcass disposal in response to an outbreak of avian influenza.  WINDROW COMPOSTING has been successfully used in the U.S.
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Don't panic! It's been a difficult week in the UK - a letter bomber with no staying power, alleged terrorists arrests, strange white stuff falling from the sky and destroying rail and tube networks, and the arrival of the dreaded bird 'flu on a turkey farm in Suffolk.â¦
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A group of international researchers at Michigan State University has decoded the genome of the chicken and found that the main ingredient of McDonald&#39;s (NYSE: MCD) Chicken McNuggets has a genetic
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At least 23 three tigers have died at a zoo in Thailand after they ate raw chicken infected with bird flu, reports the BBC. Up to 30 more tigers are reported to be ill at the The Sriracha Tiger Zoo in central
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Don't panic! It's been a difficult week in the UK - a letter bomber with no staying power, alleged terrorists arrested, strange white stuff falling from the sky and destroying rail and tube networks, and the arrival of the dreaded bird 'flu on a turkey farm in Suffolk.â¦
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WHITE SALMON, Wash. - Raw cougar meat, eaten by a deer hunter who found himself being stalked, is the apparent source of Washington state's first case of trichinosis since 2001, a health official says.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry  imports as Britain pressed ahead with a cull of 160,000 turkeys  after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird  flu in farmed poultry.
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Living near a hazardous waste  site containing persistent pollutants such as dioxins,  polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated pesticides,  seems to increase the risk of hospitalization for respiratory  infections and asthma in children, a study suggests.
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Pesticides and other pollutants in the environment may contribute to childhood leukaemia, say researchers.
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Poultry products from Hungary were the most likely cause of the outbreak of a potentially lethal H5N1 bird flu at a turkey farm in Suffolk, the government has said.
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It is one of the world&#39;s oldest questions: Why did the chicken cross the road? It might seem like a &#39;poultry&#39; subject to weigh on the minds of hundreds of scientists, but research published yesterday has brought us a little closer to the answer.
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Temporary control zones set up around two farms outside Surrey have been lifted after animals tested negative for foot and mouth disease, Defra said today.
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The World Health Organization is warning countries experiencing outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1) in poultry to be aware that domestic ducks may be infecting humans, as well as other poultry with the bird flu virus.