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Focus on organic food

David Adam wonders why more people are embracing organic food as 'healthy' and 'natural', despite the woolly 'scientific' claims often served with it.

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Adam, D. Focus on organic food. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000831-4

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