NEPHROLITHIASIS SCREENING FOR PEOPLE WITH SELF-PERCEIVED EXPOSURE TO MELAMINE-CONTAMINATED MILK PRODUCTS IN TAIPEI COUNTY, TAIWAN

Nephrolithiasis screening for people with self-perceived exposure to melamine-contaminated milk products in Taipei County, Taiwan

Objective: The outbreak of renal diseases caused by melamine-contaminated milk products in China in 2008 was one of the most serious food safety events in recent years.Because of the heavy volume of trade between VOLUMEA VOLUMIZING FOAM Taiwan and China, the Taiwanese government was very concerned about its effects on the Taiwanese people, and cond

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ADOPTION OF COCONUT-BASED INTERCROPPING SYSTEMS IN SRI LANKA: THE FALLACY OF CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY

Despite the concerted efforts of successive governments in Sri Lanka to popularize coconut-based intercropping (CBI) systems, an intensive land use alternative to traditional less intensive coconut monocropping, its adoption by farmers is as low as 25% of the agronomically potential area of 100,000 ha.Although the adoption of an innovation is influ

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Risk Assessment and Virological Monitoring Following an Accidental Exposure to Concentrated Sabin Poliovirus Type 3 in France, November 2018

The safe and secure containment of infectious poliovirus (PV) in facilities where live PV are handled is the condition to achieve and maintain poliomyelitis eradication.Despite precautions to minimize the risk of release of PV from such facilities to the Apparel environment, breaches of containment have already been documented.Here, we report the m

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