Nitrogen do not drink or take still liquid

An English girl of eighteen, who had been drinking at a party a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen was hospitalized and underwent major surgery due to perforation of the stomach favored by liquid nitrogen, which when ingested is quickly became gas by inflating and then burst stomach like a balloon, seriously enough to risk her life. The use of liquid nitrogen allows to float spectacular dense fog over cocktails, dishes containing food very cold or as a method of very fast preparation of ice cream, but the contact with the skin can cause cryogenic burns and then should never introduce the nitrogen still liquid into the body. Some time ago some had advanced doubts on the security issues of what is called the "molecular cuisine" since muffle the natural concept of nutrition even if it is based on scientific principles.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 09, 2012              n:   2023      


Swarms of locusts threatening crops in Africa

The poor harvest last year in Niger was due in part to changes in climate on the planet has put the population facing a severe food crisis and now swarms of locusts threatening crops in several other African countries like Mali, the Algeria and Libya, which had the machinery to protect crops from locusts, but were destroyed during the recent conflict. Control Operators sent by international organizations to assess the situation earlier this year found that the intense rainfall in Niger would set conditions for the locusts could easily grow and becoming voracious swarms (risking five hundred thousand acres of the crop). Between 2003 and 2005 there was another invasion of locusts in Niger, with the result of a long famine that still feel its consequences, particularly for children.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jun 29, 2012                         n:   1934      


Anniversary of the Fukushima disaster

At one year after the tsunami that hit Japan resulting from nineteen thousand dead and missing final remembers the scope of an awesome natural event that at least with regard to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has caused a serious nuclear accident almost comparable to that Chernobyl, albeit with considerable differences as regards the type and amount of radiation released into the environment due to the different type of reactor design, that in the case of Fukushima were obsolete but at least equipped with a holding vessel which allowed to limit a little the damages. In any case the area hit by radiations (which remains high) will remain contaminated for decades, with consequences not only on population but on the whole environment and the natural food chain, so we should continue to monitor the food over long distances of time.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 11, 2012                         n:   1841      


Cold shut down.. for the plant of Fukushima

The Japanese authorities have stated that the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi have reached a state of "cold shut down", meaning that temperatures in the reactors are less than one hundred degrees, allowing in this way to proceed now with the decommissioning of contaminated facilities (and construction of appropriate coverage) that will take decades and then for over forty years will have to wait for the real safety of the decommissioning of the severely damaged plant by the tsunami in eleven March that caused twenty thousand victims. The radiation released into the environment would now be only a fraction of their peaks in the emergency phase, but this should not suggest that the situation is resolved since the half-life of radioactive airborne particles by wind and discharged in sea water used to cool the cores partially melted is very long for the food chain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Dec 17, 2011                         n:   1765      


Rice with radiocaesium in Fukushima Prefecture

By examining a batch of rice ready for the distribution, even if not yet sold, from a farm about sixty kilometers from the damaged nuclear plant Fukushima Daiichi would be found a sample of rice with radiocaesium above the limits of safety and so would be prohibited marketing and sale of rice in the Fukushima Prefecture. The authorities try to prevent contaminated products from rural areas may enter in the food chain, but monitor all levels of radioactivity after the wind and rains spread radioactive particles in the eastern part of Japan is fairly complex operation. Proceed to various check out in the city of Tokyo to reassure the people, since there have been several previous alerts for the contamination of products (green tea, meat, mushrooms), but this is the first time that triggered in the country a ban on the sale. - [29/11] A television showman that had drank and eat aliments from the Fukushima area seems is falled ill of leucaemias.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Nov 18, 2011                         n:   1740      


Unchanged situation at Fukushima

The nuclear power plant out of control at Fukushima Dai-iki for the tsunami that has damaged the March 11 continues to worry the control atomic energy authorities that in recent days have sent technicians to monitor the situation and verify that the decontamination operations to carry out regular, and for weeks in Japan seems to be discussed on the level of contamination of certain foods and particularly the rice. Rice samples contaminated in the city of Nihonmatsu to fifty-five kilometers from Fukushima had attracted media attention with countries that would suspend the import of certain food from Japan. The overall situation seems unchanged after the announcement of the installation of new devices for decontaminating water and the proposed construction of a retaining wall into the sea to prevent the spill of radioactive water from the plant.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Oct 11, 2011                         n:   1707      


Contaminated food in Fukushima prefecture

The Japanese authorities have decided to establish a set of controls on foods derived from animals in all the forty-seven prefectures of the country after a lot of meat contaminated with radiocaesium from the Fukushima prefecture has entered the distribution chain, probably due to radioactive straw that farmers have continued to give to the cows although there was a ban already from March to use the forage stored outdoors (advise that some farmers would not have seen). The source of contamination with radioactive cesium in quantities not very clear was caused by the meltdowns of three reactors in the early stages of emergency after the tsunami of eleven in March that made unusable the cooling systems of nuclear power and it is estimated that at least five hundred cattle have been processed and shipped to distribution after eating contaminated straw.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 20, 2011                         n:   1636      


Contamination of foods in Germany

Some countries are going to pick the stocks of plant foods suspected of being contaminated, particularly cucumbers from Spain, after eleven people in Germany would have died to cause of the Escherichia coli germ, with more than four hundred and fifty cases of severe intestinal disease in the only city of Hamburg, although the causes of food poisoning in some patients seems to be resistant to common antibiotics is still being studied. In Austria, the food safety authorities have warned consumers who bought cucumbers, tomatoes and other vegetables from two distribution companies in Germany should be thrown away, but for example in Italy appear to have been no reported cases of poisoning enterohemorrhagic. The Escherichia coli is a bacteria normally present in the intestines of ruminant animals that can reach and contaminate humans through uncooked foods. - [31/05 fifteen victims in Germany, but not are responsible cucumbers and Spain].

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    May 30, 2011                         n:   1592      


Increase the contaminated area in Fukushima

Continue the checks on foods from the land near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and while the Taiwan authorities have banned the import from five prefectures in Japan extends to thirty kilometers from the area around the nuclear plant where the population is asked to leave, a measure of prudence rather than security, but while considering whether to raise the level of accident severity to six on a scale of seven and special pumps and fresh water were provided by international aid. Usually the plants that are more contaminated in the case of nuclear incident are the cereals, in fact, the radionuclides transported to long distances by wind or weather and then rainfall would tend to breed in their ears (as verified in the case of Chernobyl) and for example the radiostrontium is considered more dangerous of the radioactive iodine.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 25, 2011                         n:   1536      


Contamination of food in Fukushima

Controls on food from the area of nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi have verified a significant radioactive contamination (especially spinach, milk and water) and also in Tokyo which is about two hundred and forty kilometers from Fukushima was found to have traces of iodine¹³¹ in samples of drinking water and the population for some days have been distributed stable iodine pills that allow a slight prevention. The technicians who work in nuclear power plant damaged exposing themselves to high levels of radiation were able to flood water to the reactors and to restore electricity to the cooling of some plants, but seems to find difficulty in reactors with the shells that do not allow more a just contain of the radioactivity, although efforts continue to limit the damage while there are controversy about the initial intervention retard.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 20, 2011                         n:   1531      



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