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What harm can long-term consumption of substandard soy products cause?
The government health bureau recently conducted spot checks on Qingming festival foods sold on the market. Of 33 items, 5 were substandard. Among them, 4 soy products were found to contain residual hydrogen peroxide, and 1 peanut powder was found to contain aflatoxin exceeding the limit. The substandard rate was 15.2%. The health bureau stated that if the investigation is confirmed,
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What are the ecological and human health hazards of excessive nitrogen fertilizer application?
Excess nitrogen fertilizer in vegetables and fruits: beware of cancer. Have you ever heard of this? Food safety is becoming more and more fragile nowadays, so we must pay more attention ourselves. Although eating vegetables and fruits is good for health, when nitrogen fertilizer is used excessively, the nitrate present in leafy vegetables can trigger esophageal
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Food rumors keep appearing on social media: what harm do they do?
The Food Sanitation Division also urges the public to maintain "reasonable doubt" toward rumors circulating online; unless they can be confirmed as true, it is better to let rumors stop with the wise and not forward or spread them further. Those who cannot tell true from false can provide the relevant information to the Food Sanitation Division, or go online and
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What are some modern agricultural technologies? These three treasures are products of technological development
The Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute's fruit and vegetable cultivation greenhouse uses a double-net and insect-proof walkway design to reduce pest problems inside the greenhouse, and by adjusting crop cultivation row and plant spacing to reserve space for small agricultural machinery to move through, the number of plants cultivated per unit area not only does not decrease, but can also be coordinated with agricultural machinery for
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How to Identify Panama Disease in Bananas: A Detailed Guide to Symptom Recognition
The bananas commonly seen in supermarkets are also prone to the disease known as "Panama disease," which has earned the nickname of banana cancer. Panama disease has no cure, severely impacting banana farmers' income and also affecting the stability of supply for Taiwan bananas sold to Japan. At one point, Taiwan's banana planting area dropped from 50,000 hectares to 9,000 hectares. Let's take a look below.
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What is the whole process of how bees collect nectar?
With the rise of the health-preservation trend, eating natural honey has become a global craze, but people know only a little about honey and bee ecology. Wu Shuhui, an assistant researcher in the Botanical Garden Division of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute who is in charge of curation, said that many people love eating honey but do not know where honey comes from.
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What Are Biopesticide Yeasts? A Detailed Explanation of Their Functions and Benefits
Humans have used yeasts in the food fermentation industry for thousands of years. Through selected and domesticated strains, they can be used not only to produce beer and various alcoholic beverages, but also to ferment bread and steamed buns. In addition, research in recent years into their potential for plant disease control is flourishing.
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Can a bamboo house be a home? Building a simple house with bamboo
What is a home? How should it be saved? For this question, a green architect will certainly give you an answer beyond just turning off the air conditioning more often. Architects are all helping people fulfill the dream of making a home. Regarding the promotion of sustainable architecture, he also said seriously: "A home should not just be a building replicated by architects."
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What protections does agricultural major disaster insurance offer? Building agricultural occupational disaster protection is imperative
Farmers themselves lack awareness of occupational safety, and when an accident happens they also lack occupational disaster insurance claims; afraid that the crops will not be harvested in time, they grit their teeth and keep farming despite illness and pain. Compared with other industries, is agriculture actually high-risk? Is there a legal basis to protect the occupational safety of those who work in farming?
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What causes plant pests and diseases? Tracing the origins of IPM crop production management techniques
IPM is not about setting absolute methods, but about finding the most optimized approach. Let's take a look together below. Cruciferous crops in their growth pattern often develop serious pests and diseases only near harvest time. Taking broccoli as an example, the head is covered by outer leaves, and pests easily hide within, leading to poor control
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