Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.
Industrial activity is predominantly in food processing, chemicals, petroleum refining, and electrical machinery.
Other interests include food processing, chemicals, power generation and infrastructure.
Our traditional view of the food chain is that large companies manage it, industrial farms produce for it, food ingredient experts intervene with flavor enhancing and preservation chemicals, and fast food joints or supermarkets shift food to the public, who eat it, often to their detriment.
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It has erected barriers to protect many other industries, for example by imposing elaborate registration and certification requirements for imported food, cosmetics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Theories about why this is happening range from higher levels of obesity, higher density of calories in processed foods, and physical inactivity, to chemicals in food and water.
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Its invocation would provide crusading NGOs, bloggers and activist journalists with an unchecked justification for rejecting almost any processed food, especially those made using genetic modification or where trace chemicals can be found in food packaging.
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By providing equal access to food, limiting our exposure to chemicals and eliminating antibiotic use in livestock, they are changing not only how food is grown, but who gets to consume nutritious meals.
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The net result being less chemicals on our food, and potentially lower costs for producers.
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It had already been invaded by smog, by radiation, by toxic chemicals in my food, and I just wasn't going to take it anymore.
One example is getting toxins and chemicals out of our food and personal care products.
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These include agriculture and livestock, aquaculture and fisheries, chemicals, energy, food, forestry, health, information and communication, mining, tourism, waste, and water.
"When the government announces these chemicals are unsafe on food they're ... announcing, in effect, that the farm groups and chemical companies who have said there is no problem were wrong, " Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group told CNN.
But not all: many drugs and chemicals are used to make food good, wholesome food safer.
Chemicals should not be used in food products until they are proven to be safe.
Yet as a leading global maker of flavor and fragrance chemicals used in producing perfumes, food, pharmaceuticals, beverages and even detergents, its businesses have been pulling ahead and its stock on the rise since 2008.
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Had giant food manufacturers avoided packaging their processed products with chemicals and preservatives that extended shelf life and, thereby, profitability while causing various cancers in the bargain, thousands of regulations preventing such behavior would never have been necessary.
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She found a link between the brain's pleasure chemicals and a craving for this type of food.
" "We will crave chocolate or some other food that has sugar and fat to help bring those chemicals back into balance.
Eating organic produce could be a partial solution, although one study suggests that the cost of avoiding intensive farm chemicals would mean a 31% increase in food prices.
Hayward said there was "no evidence" that chemicals used to disperse the oil have entered the food chain.
Shipment volumes of housing and construction products, chemicals, metals and fertilizers all increased, while food and consumer shipments were flat.
The report says people living near incinerators may be exposed to a range of toxic chemicals, by breathing in contaminated air, eating food which has been contaminated, or by skin contact with affected soil.
These have been used in laboratories (even by NASA) to detect trace chemicals, but they are now being applied to the food industry in the effort to monitor food at its most refined level.
Food, drink, and tobacco saw a 7% quarterly rise while chemicals, coke, refined petrol and nuclear fuel went up 9%.
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