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Too Much Fresh Water May Kill Gulf Oysters

By Dan Flynn on May 10, 2011

Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could be its final strike.

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Letter From The Editor: River Rising

By Dan Flynn on May 8, 2011

When it was built just before the Civil War, the Nottoway Plantation House had about 80 acres of front yard between it and the Mississippi River. Today a dike that protects Nottoway from the Mighty…

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Letter From The Editor: NOLA

By Dan Flynn on May 1, 2011

New Orleans is back.

Let me explain. The first trip I made here was in 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina crippled the city by flooding 80 percent of the Big Easy.

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USDA Offers Food Safety Tips for Emergencies

By News Desk on March 12, 2011

With tsunami warnings and advisories issued for Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast, and heavy rains causing floods on the East Coast, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is providing…

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Rice Farmers in Haiti Fear Cholera Contamination

By Helena Bottemiller on December 31, 2010

The rice harvest in northwestern Haiti is likely to suffer over widespread fear among farmers about cholera contamination, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced this week.

Haiti’s cholera outbreak, which has sickened almost 150,000…

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Floodwaters Increase Cholera Deaths in Haiti

By Helena Bottemiller on November 8, 2010

A Cholera outbreak continues to spread in earthquak-ravaged Haiti. Late last week, the Pan American Health Organization announced that the death toll in the outbreak has risen from 442 three days ago to 501, while…

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Did Haiti Cholera Strain Originate in South Asia?

By Helena Bottemiller on November 2, 2010

Public health authorities are furiously working to contain and understand the origins of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 300 people and hospitalized almost 5,000.

Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease…

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Is Flooding Cause for Food Safety Concerns?

By Michelle Greenhalgh on October 22, 2010

After torrential downpour soaked their fields, some soybean farmers are being advised that they may have to destroy their crops as a food safety precaution.

At issue is a 2009 notice from the U.S. Food…

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Food Safety for Hurricane Season

By Suzanne Schreck on June 3, 2010

This week marks the beginning of hurricane season, and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting an “active to extremely active” season in the Atlantic Hurricane Basin, consumers need to prepare now to…

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Haitian Food Supply Vulnerable

By Norah Burton on January 23, 2010

The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is a powerful example of how the breakdown of a nation’s local food system and its reliance on food imports has made international trade and subsidies necessary year-round…

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