"This is a really important step toward food safety standards that would prevent contamination whether it is produced in a food factory or being produced on a farm, " said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America.

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He found a new job in a specialty food store, but it paid much less than his old one in a plastics factory.

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There would also be smaller turbines, possibly vertical ones, perched on our homes, steadily and reliably complementing our solar panels and contributing to a smart grid which in turn powered our food and factory production and transportation networks.

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In recent years, South Koreans have opened a fabrics factory, hotels and several food processing plants, especially for ginseng, popular with Koreans.

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"Because all the food in our supermarket will be grown on site we won't need a big processing factory to make packaging and we won't have to burn lots of fossil fuel to transport it across the globe, " he said.

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Since the mill produced more flour than the biscuit factory needed, they moved into instant noodles, a popular fast-food item in Nepal, procuring know-how from a Thai firm (hence the name Wai Wai).

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