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A bantling is a young child or baby. So this stanza starts with this horrible scene – or rather, this command to throw the baby on the rocks.
The fact that stock photos for “throwing babies” exist is a little disheartening.
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To be more precise, of the 744 apples tested, the USDA found 82.7% of them contained diphenylamine (DPA) at concentrations between 0.005 and 4.3 ppm, well below the EPA’s current tolerance level of 10ppm but potentially above the European standard of 0.1 ppm.
(The figure above was retrieved from the USDA’s 2010 Annual Summary of the Pesticide Data Program; see page 72, or page 24 of Appendix B.)
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This “superficial scald” is a storage disorder of the skin that affects apples unless a coating of antioxidant is applied. DPA is extremely effective at preventing scald; an alternative would be storing apples in a low-oxygen environment Low oxygen controlled atmosphere storage with oxygen at concentrations between 0.5 and 1.0%.
Such skin disorders occurs naturally during storage and are more likely to happen as the duration of storage increases and the temperature gets closer to room temperature.
DPA-free apple suffering from skin disorder
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The EPA last revised the thresholds for DPA in the US in 1997. Their limit is currently set at 0.01 ppm (parts per million) in meat and milk and 10 ppm for apples.
Up to 10 parts DPA for 1,000,000 parts apple: yum!
(If you do the math, that means the limit for DPA in apples is 1,000 times greater than the limit the EPA has put on meat and milk.)
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Pelo fato da cocaína ser uma droga cara e altamente viciante, é comum que os usuários (já viciados) façam enormes dívidas e muitas vezes não consigam pagá-las.
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Virginia Woolf’s final note to her husband Leonard, likely drafted on March 25, 1941.
You can browse condolence letters to Leonard from some of the couple’s notable friends, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Virginia’s onetime lover Vita Sackville-West, here.
