Mr Howells said the plant had a strong track record of supplying lamb all over the world, and had expertise in producing "a top quality product".

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It has experience in complex fields, such as identifiers for drugs which can reach down to the individual bottles, for defense operations where its bar codes ensure the right helicopter blades get to the right bases in Afghanistan, and in agriculture where its identifiers can be used to track contaminated produce back to the producer, plant and individual field.

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They plant food plots to feed deer and hang game cameras to keep track of local bucks.

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Chi-Med hopes to restart this plant-mining effort, though it began on a quite different track back in 1995.

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The foot rail along the bar is a steel streetcar track that was made in 1973 at the former Bethlehem Steel plant, located at nearby Pier 70.

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Crawford said the track team probably would have been at the high school when the plant erupted if they hadn't stopped to eat on their way back from a meet.

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