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Harvest Public Media
5:05 pm
Thu February 16, 2012

Assessing the additives

Credit Jessica Naudziunas / Harvest Public Media
Jill Lucht, of Columbia, Mo., reads the ingredient lists on the food in her refrigerator.

Pick up your favorite packaged food and read the ingredient list.

If you stumbled over any of the words or a color jumped out at you, you might be looking at what’s known as a food additive.  

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AM Newscasts
10:28 am
Thu January 19, 2012

Newscast for January 19, 2012

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Missouri gets 'F' for tobacco control policies, in new report from American Lung Association
  • FDA challenging the use of antibiotics in animals

  • MO chief justice wants to shrink prison

 

Business
7:12 am
Thu January 19, 2012

FDA challenging the use of antibiotics in animals

Credit Jessica Naudziunas / Harvest Public Media
Cows on Sally Angell's farm in Missouri eat feed without antibiotics.

The Food and Drug Administration is publishing an order this month that limits the way farmers can use certain antibiotics to treat animals, and eggs.

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