Day: 3 February 2017

AU: About the Cold Plasma Research Project

NSW Department of Primary Industries: To develop a decontamination technology based on cold plasma that can kill or inactivate food borne pathogens and rot-causing microbes on fresh produce.

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Day: 3 February 2017

AU: Lychee identified as cause for mystery deadly childhood illness in India

ABC News: For more than two decades, apparently healthy children in the Indian region of Bihar suffered sudden seizures and lost consciousness. A third of them died, leaving doctors baffled. But a team of American and Indian scientists say they have found the cause of the mystery illness, which killed more than 100 children a year: eating too many lychees on an empty stomach.

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