Due to weather fluctuations, the prices of essential vegetables like onion, tomato and potato have also gone up. (Representational image) | Photo Credit: Sudhakara Jain Grocery baskets of staples this festive month have become costlier by at least ₹150 to ₹200 per household in Bengaluru as the rates of many kitchen essentials, including pulses and … Read more
Sept. 23, 2022 — No matter how you slice it, a genetically engineered purple tomato just got one step closer to showing up in U.S. grocery stores. The U.K. company developing the new purple fruit has passed a first test with U.S. regulators, demonstrating that genetic changes to the tomatoes do not expose the plants … Read more
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THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Changes in Americans’ grocery shopping habits during the pandemic made pre-existing gaps in access to food even worse, researchers report. While many wealthier people switched to online ordering and did more stocking up, most low-income people still had to shop in-person at local small grocers and dollar … Read more
Eric Nelson, online shopper, Kroger, Cincinnati, OH. Dawn Hand, Kroger employee, Houston. Kathleen Scott, Albertsons employee, Los Angeles. Sue Wilmot, Safeway employee, Seattle. Margaret Kitt, MD, lead, CDC Essential Workers Team, COVID Vaccine Task Force, COVID-19 Emergency Response. Rebecca Weintraub, MD, assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, PhD, professor of law, University … Read more
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Grocery workers are likely at greater risk of infection with the new coronavirus, a new study shows. Not only that, but because a high percentage of them have no symptoms when they are infected, they could become … Read more