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• n  a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition
• s  tending or having the power to preserve
  timbers should be treated with a preservative substance

• A carefully designed study published in the British journal the Lancet shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate--an ingredient in many soft .
• Ever since the 1930s, a mercury compound known as thimerosal had been included in some vaccinesthough not the measles inoculationas a preservative to keep them free of fungi .
• A carefully designed study released Thursday in The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate an .

News & Articles

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• Transition Town: New business 7 Rivers Sausage takes fresh approach to good food
  Sausage making is as old as antiquity and probably began when folks learned that salt was a useful preservative. Soon it developed as an effort to economize and preserve meat after fall butchering.
  June 12, 2013 - Vernon County Broadcaster
• Two-Headed Piglet Unearthed From Garden
  Meadville, PA – Sharon Reagle spent Sunday afternoon toiling in her mother’s garden, planting hostas, until she discovered something quite bizarre. The woman unearthed a curious looking sealed glass jar brimming with an unidentified fluid with a tied bag submerged inside. Upon further inspection of the contents, Reagle realized the fluid was a preservative, fully-conserving [...] Two-Headed ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Inquisitr

Quotes

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• Richard Gott in Hindu
  And so he is dead,wrote The Guardian's Richard Gott, one of the few journalists at the scene that day. "As they pumped preservative into his half-naked, dirty body and as the crowd shouted to be allowed to see, it was difficult to recall...
• Helen Morrison in Monsters and Critics.com
  They shrink when you put them in a preservative,Dr Morrison explained.
• Julie Gerberding in Sydney Morning Herald
  Dr Julie Gerberding, director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said: "There has been a renewed interest in the issue of vaccine safety, particularly on the issue of whether the preservative thimerosal : may be linked to the...