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  • March 2008

    • Prized Cheese in Italy at Risk

      New York Times  |  Mar 27, 08 7:03 PM CDT

      Prized Cheese in Italy at Risk

      (Newser) - More consumers are turning up their noses at Italy’s prized buffalo mozzarella, and not over its smell, the New York Times reports. Toxins have been found in samples of the delicacy, likely caused by illegal dumping of garbage around Naples. Sales are down 40%, and farmers and restaurateurs fear a panic despite that fact that best cheese region appears unaffected. More »

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      Italy  • garbage  • cuisine  • Naples  • contaminated food  • mozzarella  • imported food  • dioxin

  • February 2008

    • Court Scraps Agent Orange Suit

      Reuters  |  Feb 22, 08 3:17 PM CST

      Court Scraps Agent Orange Suit

      (Newser) - Vietnamese plaintiffs who say Agent Orange caused them serious health problems ran into a judicial dead end today. A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a civil lawsuit over use of the defoliant in the Vietnam War. The suit claimed that Dow Chemical and other companies violated a ban on poisonous weapons and were responsible for millions of cases of birth defects and cancer, Reuters reports. More »

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      cancer  • Vietnam War  • civil lawsuits  • chemical warfare  • Dow Industrial  • dioxin

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