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An Amazon customer says, “Finally, a healthy alternative to traditional chips! If you like mushrooms, this gives you the crispiness you look for in a snack, but without the guilt (non-GMO and vegan). I find them highly addicting – I’ve only gotten the sea salt and spicy jalapeno (not that spicy, but good flavor), but looking forward to trying the others!”

How to fabricate advanced electrocatalysts by a more facile and green method encourages us to develop an alternative protocol from a microbial perspective. It has been reported that metal nanoparticles can be green-synthesized by the metal-respiring bacterium for dechlorination of environmental contaminants and Heck coupling reaction (29–32). However, the nanoparticles synthesized by microorganisms have rarely been used as electrocatalysts because of the poor conductive nature of microbial cells (33). High-temperature carbonization reaction is a common way to increase the conductivity of microbial cells (33–35), but it cannot avoid the aggregation of those nanoparticles at a high loading amount, limiting their catalytic performance (33). Therefore, maintaining the balance between increasing the conductivity of microbial cells and avoiding the aggregation of nanoparticles still remains a challenge to be solved.

Study of Major Vendors: BASF SE, Solvay S.A., Ajinomoto Co Inc, Albion Laboratories Inc, Shijiazhuang Donghua Jinlong Chemical Co Ltd, Galaxy Surfactants Ltd., Novotech Nutraceuticals Inc, Dunstan Nutrition Limited, Provit, Chaitanya Biologicals Private Limited.

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In addition, the Company has been advancing other aspects of the repurpose plan, including activities related to third party phosphate rock logistics, site preparation and product portfolio transition. Third party phosphate rock delivery is in progress, new equipment is being commissioned and approvals have been received to sell the new products. Also in connection with advancing implementation of the repurpose plan, the Company has idled Itafos Arraias’ existing mines, tailings dam and the beneficiation plant. Notwithstanding, Itafos Arraias will maintain all licenses and permits in good standing and comply with existing regulations.

To measure the amount of cadmium and lead removed from the soil, a slurry of 50 g of soil and 150 g of distilled water was prepared. The pH was adjusted between 6 and 7, and 5 g of FS@IDA was added to the slurry at room temperature. The magnetic solids were separated using a magnet after intermittent stirring for 7 d. The cadmium and lead concentration in the soil was reduced to 1.639 and 52.7 mg·kg−1 (Table 2), corresponding to removal percentages of 84.9 and 72.3%, respectively. These results suggest that the water-soluble, interchangeable, carbonate-bound and iron-manganese oxide-bound fractions of Cd and Pb (but not the organic-bound or residual fractions in the multi-phase soil system) could form the magnetic solid chelates FS@IDA-Cd and FS@IDA-Pb, which were subsequently separated using a magnet (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Experiment S2). This novel magnetic solid chelator as prepared in this study has potential for use in magnetic separation applications and in the removal of heavy metal contaminants from soil.

The topsoil near a lead and zinc refinery in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, was chosen because it is representative of soils that are significantly contaminated by heavy metals. This factory specializes in heavy metals such as Pb, Zn, and Cu and their alloys and combines non-ferrous heavy metals such as Au, Ag, Cd, In, Ge, Ga, Se and Te, with chemical industry products such as vitriol. The cadmium and lead concentration was determined to be 10.91 ± 2.06 mg·kg−1 and 190.0 ± 33.2 mg·kg−1 (Table 2), respectively, using the GB/T17138–1997 standard method23. The heavy metal forms were analyzed using the Tessier method22.