Water under pressure

Kraft develops food products meant to kill intestinal worms

Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 2 days (www.nytimes.com)

Kraft Foods, famous for revolting plastic cheese and inoffensive food bars, plans to incorporate compounds meant to kill roundworms and other troublesome parasites into food products that have yet to be named.

This article is engaging and easy to get into, almost definitely written for the non-scientist. Still the story of how the antiparasitics were discovered is brief and interesting.

Kraft would hardly be the first company to tailor its products to each target country. The most famous example is probably Coca-Cola's country-by-country formulas.

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Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest

BIOBOSS submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (news-service.stanford.edu)

Worldwide, billions of people lack access to a reliable source of safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities. To address the problem, the United Nations established the Target 10 initiative, which aims to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. Now, halfway to the deadline, experts warn that the United Nations may not achieve the sanitation target.

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