Hi Karen,
I'm hoping that X can keep her promise to do her "open the lambic and drink only a glass" experiment for you. As far as I know, it should keep for about a week, re-corked, in the refrigerator once you've opened it, if it's anything like wine. If it's fizzy like beer, it'll go flat, though.
Did you see this, BTW? I'm enjoying the new Homeland security thread, on which it was posted:
Congress Trying to Guard Food Supply
By PHILIP BRASHER
AP Farm Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — After attacks from the air and the mail, officials worry the nation's food supply could be next. The government considers
potential targets to be fruits and vegetables that people eat raw and cattle that could be infected with fast-spreading foot-and-mouth disease.
To deter potential terrorists, Congress is considering proposals to hire hundreds of new food inspectors and lab technicians and empower the
government to seize or recall tainted products and inspect food makers' records.
The Agriculture Department has put veterinarians on alert and wants more guards to protect its labs around the country that work with food pathogens.
``Food security can no longer be separated from our national security,'' Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said Thursday.
Terrorists could poison a limited amount of food and still ``create a general atmosphere of fear and anxiety without actually having to carry out
indiscriminate civilian-oriented attacks,'' Peter Chalk of the Rand Corp. think tank recently told Congress.
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