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Germans Seek Calm as Tainted-Food Scare Grows

By Hugh CollinsJan 5th 2011 – 3:45PM

German authorities are seeking to calm consumer fears after it emerged that a food contamination scare was worse than previously thought. As much as 3,000 tons of animal-feed additive sold to poultry and pig farms may have been contaminated with the chemical dioxin, which has been linked to cancer cases in humans, Reuters...

Bloggers Mine Irony of Gore School's Contamination

By Hugh CollinsSep 8th 2010 – 2:35PM
Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images

Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images

(Sept. 8) -- Conservative bloggers are abuzz over what they see as a delicious irony: A Los Angeles school named for environmentalist Al Gore was apparently built on contaminated soil. The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is jointly named after the former vice president and Rachel Carson, the late writer...

Background on contaminated

Contamination is the presence of a minor and unwanted constituent (contaminant) in material, physical body, natural environment, at a , etc.

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