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EU Food Facility Grant To Boost Farmers' Productivity In Asia And Africa
Small-scale farmers in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sierra Leone are soon to receive a productivity boost, thanks to innovative projects of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) funded with a 39-million euro donation from the European Union (EU).
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Study Finds That Tobacco Companies Changed Design Of Cigarettes Without Alerting Smokers
As President Obama prepares to sign a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of the tobacco industry, a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows that tobacco manufacturers have continually changed the ingredients and the design of their cigarettes over time, even if those changes have exceeded acceptable product variance guidelines. The result, say the researchers, is that consumers who buy the same brand of product are not made aware of how that product has been altered and what effect those alterations might have on their levels of addiction or harm.
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BPA Chemical Leaches From Hard Plastic Drinking Bottles Into The Body, Study
New research from the US suggests that people who drink from bottles made of polycarbonate plastic, such as that used to make hard-plastic
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Bio Manufacturers Poised To Follow Senate Victory With House Win

"A veteran California lawmaker with ties to the biotechnology industry said she thinks her proposal to protect brand-name biologic makers has enough support to carry in the House Energy and Commerce Committee," Dow Jones Newswires/Wall Street Journal reports. The proposal, by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., would protect brand-name biologic products from competition for 12 years. A similar proposal cleared the Senate health committee earlier this week. Opponents of the proposal include the White House, the Federal Trade Commission and consumer groups like the AARP, "the influential lobby for the elderly," which "said it was disappointed with the Senate committee"s vote and "has great difficulty supporting legislation that would delay the availability of safe, affordable generic biologic drugs and impede consumer access to these life-saving drugs."" Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, has proposed protecting trademark products for only five to seven years. "Any legislation will likely affect the bottom lines of biologic makers such as Amgen Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Genentech Inc., and the wallets of consumers," Dow Jones reports. The sweeping health reform plan released yesterday did not include language on biologics, but Eshoo plans to introduce an amendment this week (Favole, 7/14). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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