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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil classification system was developed for use in describing soils in which plants grow.63-66 The USDA system is now universally accepted within the United States and it should be used to describe soils used in ET landfill covers. 

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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) method, the sand particles will settle to the bottom of the cylinder in 2 min, leaving silt and clay in suspension. The International Soil Science Society (ISSS) uses the 12-min time period for sand to settle. After 24 h, all of the silt particles have settled, leaving only clay in suspension. The hydrometer reading at each of these intervals is converted to grams of soils per liter using a correlation chart. See Workplace Scene 15.4. 

Worldwide data are not readily available as many nations do not publish the results of their animal residue monitoring programs. The best available data are those published regularly by the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It is possible to go back over data for many years and demonstrate improvements in the residue situation, however the records for the past few years are the important ones as they are representative of current or recent events. Since the publication of worldwide residue data is at best sparse and not consistent, this chapter has made use of the regularly published residue data from the FSIS/USDA surveys, which are available on the Internet. The assumption made in this chapter, and perhaps there is a certain naivete to this assumption, is that international residue usage is similar to that found by the FSIS/USDA. This assumption is based upon the frequency of residues found in meat products imported into the U.S. 

A U.S. patent was issued in 1917 for the use of nitrite as a replacement for nitrate in curing brines (Doran, 1917, as cited in Binkerd and Kolari, 1975). Kerr et al., (1926) found that hams cured in a brine containing about 2000 ppm sodium nitrite were equivalent in flavor and color to hams cured with nitrate. The maximum nitrite level found in any part of the hams was 200 ppm. Based on these experiments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1925 authorized use of sodium or potassium nitrite in curing brines in federally inspected establishments, at 0.25 to 1 ounce per 100 pounds of meat, such that the finished product would contain no more than 200 ppm sodium... 

In the United States, food safety is an important responsibility not only of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but also of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. The EPA registers or approves the use of pesticides and establishes a tolerance level if the use of a pesticide may lead to residues in food (30). 

All-natural The term natural may be the most confusing of all. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a "natural or "all-natural label on meat means that it has been "minimally processed and contains no artificial ingredients, yet does not go so far as to prohibit the use of growth-promoting hormones or antibiotics. 

Support for this work was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service under Cooperative Agreement No. 58-1950-4-401. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the USDA, and does not mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government. 

In 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) [64] published a report that pictures a much more favorable outcome for the production of ethanol from com than the Canadian publication in 2001 that we have just discussed. The USDA claimed that the bioethanol output from corn is 1.67 units for each unit of input of fossil fuel (heat, electricity, chemicals, fertilizers, and insecticides) and 1.06 against 1 without allocating energy input to the by-products. These results seem to contradict the criticism of other prominent researchers, David Pimentel and Tad Patzek from Cornell University and the University of California in Berkeley, respectively, to whom we will refer again below. 

Recently, the EPA and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) completed the first statistically designed surveys of the occurrence and concentrations of CDDs/CDFs in beef fat (Ferrario et al. 1996 Winters et al. 1996), pork fat (Lorber et al. 1997), poultry fat (Ferrario et al. 1997), and the U.S. milk supply (Lorber... 

The approval of Taxol for marketing in December 1992 was the culmination of 35 years of work. During this period of time the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to collect, identify, and screen U.S. native plant material for antitumor activity. The year 1992 also marked, coincidentally, the discovery of the Ice Man in the Italian Alps. This Bronze Age man, who died 5300 years ago, was found in possession of a pure copper axe set in a yew wood handle and an unfinished 6-foot yew bow. Obviously, the yew tree has played a number of important roles for humans throughout history. 

The status of laboratory animals in universities, hospitals, drug companies, and other research facilities is monitored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the provisions of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The AWA has been amended three times since its passage in 1966. In 1985, an amendment was added that requires... 

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