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preservative

adjective as in saving

noun as in hygienic preserver

noun as in chemical compound

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She says there are some "legitimate costs" that come with processing a body - like spending on transport, and preservative chemicals.

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They’re industrially processed, built with emulsifiers, stabilizers and preservatives you couldn’t buy at a supermarket, let alone cook with at home.

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“There’s nothing artificial. No preservatives. Even the corn is non-GMO. Just simple, fresh and produced daily.”

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The new panel made its first decision last week, voting to stop recommending a small number of flu vaccines that still contain the preservative thimerosal, something Kennedy wrote a book about in 2015.

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On Thursday, at its first meeting, his newly reconstituted council voted to ban the preservative thimerosal from the few remaining vaccines that contain it, despite many studies showing that thimerosal is safe.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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