White Rabbit Denies Formaldehyde Accusation
The accusations regarding a certain candy called “White Rabbit” containing formaldehyde(commonly known as formalin) has finally been proven and dismissed false.Guan Sheng Yuan (Group) Ltd, White Rabbit’s manufacturer released yesterday official laboratory results certifying that their products are free from contaminated ingredients such as formalin. General Manager Weng Mao, stated at a recent presscon conducted by the company, that they already received test result samples from an international inspection company called SGS, proving its products are free from the poisonous chemical.
GM Mao stated, “the report is convincing enough to dispel the untrue reports from some overseas media”.
Last monday, Bureau of Food and Drugs(BFAD – Philippines) began banning White Rabbit’s distribution and pulled-out stocks of the candy on all grocery stores. Not only the said product has been pulled-out but other China-made products as well. Included are Milk Candy, Balron Grape Biscuits and Yong Kang Foods Grape Biscuits, which came from the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. BFAD also issued a public advisory asking the general public not to buy or consume the said products and claiming that sample tests on them had shown they contained harmful substances, such as formaldehyde.
Math Model Helps Cure Hepa-C
Another excellent breakthrough in the field of science and medicine. A joint research by specialists in University of Haifa(Institute of Evolution) and Indiana University recently discovered a mathematical method that is able to indentify genes that battle against viruses and diseases in our body. Based on a research lead by Dr. Leonid Brodsky and Dr. Milton Taylor, they’ve already identified over 37 genes(out of possible 20,000 genes) that help in combating the Hepa-C strain.
According to Dr. Brodsky, “”When we know which genes are responsible for fighting the viruses which attack our liver, we will be able to look for the medications which will activate these genes most favorably”. He further added, “”In the specific case of hepatitis C, we have now isolated the genes that show which patients will respond to treatment. Until now, all patients received treatment for an extended period of time without knowing whether or not they would respond. In the future, we hope to find other medications that will be more effective in activating all of the 37 genes.”
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Harry Potter Publishers Takes Legal Action Over Online Leaks
After the brouhaha regarding the online leakage of Harry Potter’s Book 7 on several p2p and torrent sites, Scholastic Inc. is finally taking legal action to bring down the culprit.
Los Angeles Times wrote:
The publisher announced it was taking immediate legal action against Levy Home Entertainment, a distributor, and DeepDiscount.com, a customer of the distributor, which it said had mailed out the copies in “a breach of the on-sale agreement.”
Scholastic — already stung by pirated versions of the alleged manuscript that had begun appearing the day before on the Internet — filed court papers Wednesday in Chicago against Levy Home Entertainment, based in Illinois, accusing the distributor of a “complete and flagrant violations of the agreements that they knew were part of the carefully constructed release of this eagerly awaited book.”
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