The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root

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By Nathanael JohnsonDec 15, 2015, 8:09 pm140 pts
What if our next-generation, futuristic antimicrobial turns out to be the same thing people have been using for the last 4,000 years? A new invention could improve food safety by borrowing a trick from ancient civilizations: using spice to fend off germs. If you want to keep food from spoiling you can load it…

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