Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds | Environment

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds | Environment

Two state governments have drastically underdelivered more than $160m in infrastructure measures to improve river health in the northern Murray-Darling basin eight years since they were promised, a major independent review has found. This includes failure by the New South Wales government to secure any of the private land access needed to improve water flows…

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UK looked at ways to ‘open doors’ to US chlorinated chicken, FoI request shows | Food safety

UK looked at ways to ‘open doors’ to US chlorinated chicken, FoI request shows | Food safety

British officials were briefed on the possibility of allowing chemical-washed chicken into the UK before a meeting with the US embassy, new documents reveal. The Food Standards Agency is also looking at studies performed in the US on washing chicken with bacteriophages, including chlorine dioxide, to remove pathogens, according to the documents, released to the…

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