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Source :: New Scientist. 03/20/99, Vol. 161 Issue 2178, p21. 1/3p.
Publication Year :: 1999
Abstract: Offers news briefs on science as of March 20, 1999. The acquittal of Laurent Fabius, former prime minister of France, and Georgina Dufoix, his social affairs minister, for negligence in their handling of contaminated blood in the 1980s; Request by health and consumer groups to the United States Food and Drug Administration to ban the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed; Action of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in response to dioxin levels in vegetables.