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(ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member

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The FoodChain ID Group is located across North and South America, Europe and Asia and provides integrated food safety and food quality solutions that address the challenges and opportunities in the food industry.
Foodchain ID has expanded its portfolio to include organic certifications for IIS companies in response to the industry's growing need for integrated solutions.
The three-year-old's family had decided to enjoy breakfast at Jollibee, a popularfast foodchain in the country.
As lender of last resort, the government is in a unique position to create moral hazard for all the players in the securitization foodchain. The US$700bn bailout of financial insitutions was controversial on both sides of the ideological aisle: on the right, because it meant a de facto admission of market failure, and on the left, because the bailout priviledged the needs of Wall Street over Main Street.
This plastic pollution continues to be a significant threat to the oceans and oceandwelling animals, and poses a very real danger of human foodchain pollution from toxins within materials such as polystyrene, small pieces of which are mistaken for food by fish and other see animals.
Andy McLaren: "His very own Labour party look down on the working class, a party who's very ethos was to protect those at the bottom of the foodchain. But the likes of Emily Thornbury and Diane Abbott look down on white van men and people with Northern accents.
This is the top of Valpolicella foodchain - rich and complex.
One explanation for suburban press history being overlooked has probably been a hardy view that the papers are 'at the bottom of the journalistic foodchain, a slave to advertising, a pimp to consumerism and unworthy to be mentioned in the same breath as even the more lowly of regional dailies' (Griffin, 2002: 106).
Man, that being who imagines himself at the top of the foodchain, must--for Maupassant's patient--now consider that a being is here that will knock us from this position and will forcibly modify us (dompter (7)) until we are as cattle to it.
Shen, "Permanence and global attractivity of the foodchain system with Holling IV type functional response," Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol.