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This CAST report supports dietary recommendations to decrease food fat consumption from the present national average of 37% to less...
This report indicates that biotechnology-induced herbicide resistance in crops will allow use of herbicides that are toxicologically and environmentally less...
Addresses the ecological implications of several programs established in the 1985 Food Security Act, including the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP),...
Reviews by 44 leading scientists support and criticize the 1989 National Research Council report, Alternative Agriculture. The authors represent the...
This report stresses the importance of the economic and health risks of naturally occurring fungal toxins known as mycotoxins. These...
This paper reviews the scientific literature on nitrates, concluding that there is inadequate evidence linking nitrate or nitrite ingestion to...
Suspending subtherapeutic use of antibiotics would not eliminate the transfer of antibiotic-resistant intestinal bacteria from animals to humans. The main...
NOTE: A number of years ago, CAST published two reports dealing with the irradiation of foods: Report 109, July 1986...
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