US: New food formula: tastes fine, kills worms - (The New York Times)
February 5, 2008 – 4:22 pmKraft Foods is, according to this story, working on food that is not only tasty, but kills intestinal worms.
It is not intended for sale in the United States, but is aimed at rural Asia, Africa and Latin America, where worms leave millions of children lethargic, dangerously anemic and, sometimes, passing blood.
The food is in the early development stage, and a spokeswoman was cited as saying the company was not ready to say whether it would be a cheese, a pasta, a granola bar or something else. But it will incorporate deworming chemicals developed by TyraTech, a company in Melbourne, Fla., that makes safe pesticides.
R. Douglas Armstrong, chief executive of TyraTech, was cited as explaining the pesticides are derived from plant oils which attach to three olfactory and central nervous system receptors found only in invertebrates. When overstimulated, Dr. Armstrong said, those receptors produce unstoppable cascades of impulses in the nervous […]
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