Sentences with phrase «human food supply»

It shows that much more research is needed to uncover what these findings could mean for human food supplies.

This leads directly into a discussion of the spread of soybean rust throughout the world in the late 20th century, with its potential to greatly reduce yields and hence affect human food supplies.

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Only 120 cultivated plant species and 14 mammalian and avian species provide 90 percent of human food supply.

«Toxic nanoparticles might be entering human food supply.»

A growing number of studies contribute to suspicions that these pesticides are behind the rise of colony collapse disorder, and reduction in bee populations sufficient to raise fears that failing crop pollination could threaten human food supplies.

The medley of metals could mean disaster for the species — whale cows can pass the fat - soluble toxins straight to their calves through nursing — as well as illustrate the dangers present for human food supplies pulled from the oceans.

The authors survey the oceanic impacts of rising greenhouse - gas concentrations and reinforce what has become ever clearer in recent years: The ongoing buildup of carbon dioxide, both by warming the planet and changing ocean chemistry, is having large impacts on marine life and ocean dynamics, with substantial repercussions for human food supplies and health.

They estimate that 19 percent of protein and 10 percent of calories in feed for aquatic species are ultimately made available in the human food supply.

«This is an important discovery that helps us understand the timeline of grass development, which now forms the basis of the human food supply in such crops as corn, rice or wheat,» Poinar said.

A recent United Nations report cautions that with more than a billion people worldwide relying on seafood (pdf) as their primary source of protein, acidification could pose a major threat to the human food supply.

«Obviously what we all want is to get the toxin out of the human food supply,» Cardwell notes, «but in order to incentivize farmers to take on additional cost and operations in their field they have to have a market that values that low toxin level.»

Sundlof noted that the FDA has the same authority over pet food as it does over most of the human food supply.

The impact on the human food supply is also unclear, says H. Scott Hurd, an animal food safety expert with the World Health Organization and the University of Iowa, Ames.

This antibiotic resistance could eventually make its way into hospitals and the human food supply, although experts caution that no link has yet been proved.

HFCS didn't really become part of the human food supply until the 1970's and now it's found it fairly large quantities in almost every processed food on the grocery shelves.

Again, going back to the principle that we are most adapted to eating what our ancesters ate for almost 2 million years, that list of foods obviously did NOT include genetically modified foods, since these «frankenfoods» weren't included in the human food supply until the 1990's.

The plants also contain genes from bacteria that produce a protein that has never been part of the human food supply.

Animal co-products are important sources of good quality protein, vitamins, minerals and essential amino and fatty acids for pet food products that do not detract from the human food supply.

Not every food animal that is infected with a potentially harmful pathogen can be detected and rejected from the human food supply, but considering the scale of the project, food inspectors do a heroic job.

«These contaminants, I think, are threatening the human food supply.

Now, a new report says that if we keep cooking the planet, there will be mass starvation on ocean floors and a decrease in the human food supply as well.