Here is the latest American Chemical Society (ACS) News Service Weekly press package (PressPac) with reports selected from 35 major peer-reviewed journals and Chemical & Engineering News. With more than 160,000 members, ACS is the worlds largest scientific society.
ACS NEWS SERVICE April 4, 2007
Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, April 9, 2007)
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In This Edition:
- Verifying the authenticity of organic foods
- New NO-releasing polymers with potential medical uses
- Key Stardust spacecraft discovery may have been contamination
- New car "aroma:" No sign of toxicity
- Building up nanotech research
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- "Huh, a what?" Find out "what" in a Chemistry Glossary
- Science Elements: ACS Audio Clips
- News, features, background, sources from ACS National Meeting, March 25-29, Chicago
- Earth Day April 22
- Research in one hot field: ACS Chemical Biology
- Mark Your Calendars: ACS Regional Meeting, May 16-19, Philadelphia
ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Verifying the authenticity of organic foods
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
The supermarket sign in the produce aisle says "organic" and the higher price lends credence. But is that organically grown fruit or vegetable authentic or a mislabeled version of some conventionally grown crop?
In a report scheduled for the April 4 issue of ACS Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly journal, scientists in the United Kingdom a
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Fourth Health Services and Research Policy Conference7.
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Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 17, 200710.
Neurosurgery robot unveiled April 1711.
Embargoed March/April Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet