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A shortages that may have escaped your notice

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From Cnews….

The Vancouver-based company that makes much of the world’s methanol — the main ingredient in windshield washer fluid — has had to curtail production in Chile.

The company is having trouble getting natural gas, another key ingredient, from neighbouring Argentina because the country has imposed a hefty export tax.

Methanex is now posting a price of $832 US per metric tonne, up from a low of $309 earlier this year.

In October, the company reported a severe shortage of methanol because of closed plants throughout the industry — including its own in Chile — combined with strong demand. It’s since restored some natural gas supply.

Consumers haven’t noticed the impact yet.

But retailers will soon be running out of inventory and buying — and selling — the product at new, sky-high prices, Paquette said.

Honey is now an FDA approved antibiotic

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From MSNBC….

TRENTON, New Jersey – Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature’s original antibiotic — honey — is making a comeback.

More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., a New Jersey company that makes medicated and other advanced wound care products, began selling the first honey-based dressing this fall after it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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