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Packed Lunches and Food Safety

27-Nov-09 18:17
Leah Macey
Posted in: Health
Packed Lunches and Food Safety

Bringing your lunch to work, or preparing lunches for your children to take to school, means food can go unrefrigerated for extended periods of time. This gives bacteria a chance to grow and multiply, thus increasing the risk of food poisoning.

Folic Acid, Spina Bifida, Pregnancy and You

20-Oct-09 18:58
Steve Stapleton
Posted in: Health
Folic Acid, Spina Bifida, Pregnancy and You

The incidence of babies being born with spina bifida is on the increase - in Scotland it has just been announced that this year has seen the numbers double and it is thought that this will be the same for the whole of the UK, where incidents of spina bifida are, already, the highest in the world!

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