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What’s the RDI of Rat Droppings?

Friday, July 27, 2007

From the U. S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Defect Action Levels for Chocolate and Chocolate Liquor:
Insect filth: (AOAC 965.38)
Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR
Any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments

Rodent filth: (AOAC 965.38)
Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 […]

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What is Polonium, and why is it so deadly?

Saturday, March 17, 2007

One of the most interesting news stories of last year was the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning - the apparent assassination of a vocal critic of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), and the first known human poisoning using the radioactive isotope, Polonium-210. So what is this Polonium, anyway?

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