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The document describes finches that live on the Galapagos Islands and how their beak shapes have adapted to the different foods available in their habitats. It provides a table matching four finch species with the type of food they eat based on their beak structure: one has a parrot-like beak for eating fruits, one uses cactus spines, one has a pointed beak for small seeds, and one has a large crushing beak for eating large, thick-shelled seeds. It then asks questions about how the large crushing beak helps that finch survive and which finch would be least likely to survive if the insect population decreased.
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Last Friday was world World Food Safety Day, facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in which the slogan rightly says, 'food safety is everyone's business'. Due to this, I thought it would be worth sharing some data that I have worked on in this field!
Working at Markes International has really opened my eyes (and unfortunately my friends and family 🤣) to food safety and quality, especially with my recent application work on ethylene oxide and 2-chloroethanol residues in foodstuffs, as of the biggest global food recalls in history was and is still being implemented by the Rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) in 2021, for high levels of these carcinogenic compounds.
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https://ashpc.eu/
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