Mar 25, 2009
Posted in Science at 2:07 pm by David Bradley -- 3 Comments; add yours
Across the globe privacy laws and property rights are confused. Having usually been established in centuries past it is unlikely that any established legal system can cope easily with the requirements of the digital age. Nowhere is this more likely to hold true than when discussing the use of peoples’ biometric information, which are very personal data indeed.
Biometric information might include iris or retinal scans, digitized fingerprints, DNA samples, even lip-recognition …
Dec 7, 2008
Posted in Science at 1:02 pm by David Bradley -- 16 Comments; add yours
Dioxins Before Swine – Irish pork is off the menu, according to the BBC.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency is monitoring pork products in the Irish Republic because of fears of contamination with dioxins. “Tests showed some pork products contained up to 200 times more dioxins than the recognised safety limit.” Interestingly, dioxin levels in soil have been declining in recent years, according to another …
Nov 1, 2008
Posted in Science at 10:03 am by David Bradley -- 5 Comments; add yours
Thousands of babies had apparently taken ill having drunk formula milk to which the organic compound melamine had been added. The melamine was being added by unscrupulous operatives somewhere in the milk supply chain, to artificially boost the nitrogen content of the product, and so spoof higher protein levels than are actually present.
Subsequently, lists of contaminated products appeared in the media and on the web and as the …
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