With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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How To Make An AR-15 Or Another Gun At Home: Start With A 3-D Printer :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Late in August, a story popped up on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/23/wiki-weapon-project-aims-to-create-a-gun-anyone-can-3d-print-at-home/">Forbes </a>about Defense Distributed, an open-source group that claimed to be creating "Wiki Weapon" -- a series of blueprints for firearms that would be freely disseminated online as CAD files.</p></div></div></div>
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How a theater major went from scripts and sequels to scripting SQL :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/saQxA0S7YPc/story01.htm
How battery startups are trying to survive in tough times :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/pzlT9FmPdL8/story01.htm
VIDEO: How to spot unsafe electrical goods :: More than four million counterfeit goods have been seized in the UK this year, many of them electrical items.
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UK sport governance to up its game :: How UK sports leaders can up their game
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