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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...establish thresholds for all food-related allergens. For instance, when it comes to gluten, the general consensus is that any concentration below 20 parts per million is too small to have a harmful effect, so new regulations would not require manufacturers to label foods that contain less than that cutoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Peanut Allergies Be Cured by ... Eating Peanuts? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...truth is, for a small segment of the population, even exhaustive clinical and psychological tests will never guarantee a conclusive answer about their sex. According to Vilain, it's basically impossible to come up with a "universal cutoff" to determine females from males. "That's what we're struggling with," he says. "There is no one biological parameter for sex. It's a complicated combination of parameters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The IOC Grapples with Olympic Sex Testing | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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