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Proper fermentation in the production of coconut wine, known locally as lambanog, is important to prevent poisoning, and the local experts reiterate the warnings to distillers over the drink’s high methanol content.

Last December 2019, 300 individuals were reportedly hospitalized in the provinces of Laguna and Quezon, with signs of poisoning, after drinking lambanog with high levels of methanol.

‘Lambanog poisoning is caused by residual methanol, which in high levels becomes highly toxic for humans. Methanol is naturally occurring substance present during the distilling process, that should be separated and removed thereafter’, DOH said in a statement released in the last quarter of 2019.

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Among the most interesting treasures that make Batanes unique is their famous ‘Dibang’ or ‘Day -Old, Batanes Style Flying Fish’ that will surely give you the unique taste of ‘Home of the Winds’.

Photo Courtesy: PSTC Batanes/LGU Uyugan

To make this to-die-for local delicacy, salt is one of the important raw materials in the production of day-old dibang and salt production has become an indispensable activity in the local area. Because of this, intervention on the salt industry was identified to include iodization as specified in the ASIN Law [or the Republic Act No. 1872].

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Rapid prototyping using 3D printing machine is one of the state-of-the-art technologies in DOST-MIRDC’s Advanced Manufacturing Center. All3dp.com

The Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMCen) is among the service facilities that the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will feature in this year’s National Science and Technology Week celebration.

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The University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin), in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK, has successfully completed the One Health Omics Project, a week-long free online bioinformatics workshop held from October 11-16, 2021.

Out of 124 applicants, only 40 were shortlisted to participate in the workshop composed of faculty members, clinicians, and researchers from different regions in Mindanao.