The summit, organized by Ecovia Intelligence will provide an update on eco-labels, sustainable ingredients, and green packaging.

Here we highlight eight areas of discussion that the organisers will focus on;

1. Need for a circular economy. It is argued many of the negative impacts associated with the food industry could be resolved by shifting to a circular economy. Holly Bybee, director of business development, IDEO will discuss the role of regenerative agriculture, sourcing locally, and product design in a sustainable food industry. The challenges and opportunities in making the transition to a circular economy will be highlighted.

2. Closing packaging loops. The food industry, the largest user of single-use packaging, is under pressure to reduce its packaging impacts. Some of the technology provided by bio-based polymers, recyclable materials, and compostable packaging will be explored. Anthony Rossi, VP, global business development, Teracycle will explain how its Loop platform aims to make single-use packaging a thing of the past. Case studies will also be given of brands adopting innovative green packaging solutions.

3. Upcycling of food ingredients. In recent years, a flurry of start-ups are finding applications for discarded food (byproducts). The Planetarians is one such company, using defatted sunflower seeds to make plant proteins and protein flour. The companys CEO Aleh Manchuliantsau will discuss the challenges in setting up supply chains for waste ingredients and getting customers to try upcycled ingredients.

4. Opportunities with hemp ingredients. Chris Conrad, internationally recognized cannabis expert, will highlight the opportunities for hemp and cannabidiol (CBD) in food and beverage products. According to a survey by the National Restaurant Association, 76% of Americans see cannabis / CBD-infused drinks as the number one trend. Conrad will also give an update on the regulatory challenges when marketing CBD infused products.

5. Positive impacts of ethical sourcing. A growing number of companies are investing in ethical sourcing of their ingredients, however doing so brings many challenges. Since its formation in 1999, Numi Tea has been ethically sourcing tea from various countries. Its CEO and co-founder Ahmed Rahim will give insights into the pitfalls in setting up such projects in Asia and Africa, as well as the difference they have had on local communities.

6. Foods that promote biodiversity. Food production is directly linked to biodiversity of plant species. Caryl Levine, co-founder, Lotus Foods, will explain how the company is encouraging production of rare varieties of rice, such as long grain red rice and dehraduni basmati rice. Pierre Thiam, one of Africas leading chefs, will share his companys mission of introducing Americans to an ancient African grain. Yoll Foods is sourcing fonio, a gluten-free superfood grain, from small subsistence farmers in West Africa.

Levine and Thiam will also highlight the marketing issues when introducing rare / heritage food products into the US market.

7. Conscious capitalism and social justice. There is growing corporate interest in conscious capitalism and / or social activism. Dr Bronners Magic Soaps has been at the forefront of corporate activism and promoting social justice since its formation. The Californian firm will show how conscious capitalism can be a force of good and can help resolve social issues.

8. Supply chains for organic ingredients. North America has the largest market for organic foods in the world, however many sectors are experiencing undersupply. Amarjit Sahota, founder, Ecovia Intelligence, will give an update on the organic food market whilst Tradin Organic will highlight major trend and developments for organic ingredients. Details will be given on Tradin Organic is setting up international supply chains for organic raw materials.

The 10th Sustainable Foods Summit North American edition will be hosted at the Merchants Exchange Club San Francisco. Other editions will be hosted in Asia-Pacific (March 30-31 2020, Singapore) and Europe (June 11-12, Amsterdam).

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An EU-funded project to support the uptake of climate friendly cooling and heating alternatives in smaller-scale retail is seeking respondents for an international survey to better understand the opportunities and key drivers at present to move to new solutions.

The international survey is part of the EUs Refrigerants, Naturally! For Life (RNFL) focus that commenced in June 2019. The work, which will continue up to the end of 2021, is looking at different means of achieving the EUs 2030 climate targets through cooling functions.

A consortium of eight organisations including refrigeration specialists and retail suppliers will help work on the project, with Germany-based consultancy HEAD leading overall work.

RNFL noted that stores selling food have a 50 per cent higher energy usage than other commercial buildings. Given that refrigeration makes up between 30 to 50 per cent of total energy in such stores, it is thus a large contributor to a food retailers environmental impacts, the programme noted.

However, there is currently no reliable data about the use of refrigeration, air conditioning and heating equipment, or on user needs in the organic and small food retail sector.

The consortium added, There is a need to get a better understanding of a small shop owners needs [of what is] the status quo and of the cooling and heating technology trends with the focus on refrigeration equipment used by the organic food retail sector and small supermarkets defined as buildings with up to 1,000 sq m of sales area and other food markets in Europe.

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Organic Food & Beverage Market Segmentation Analysis: Classified By product, and region:

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3 Global Organic Food & Beverage Market Race by Manufacturers

4 Global Organic Food & Beverage Production Market Share by Regions

5 Global Organic Food & Beverage Consumption by Regions

6 Global Organic Food & Beverage Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Type

7 Organic Food & Beverage Products Market Analysis by Applications

8 Organic Food & Beverage Manufacturing Cost Examination

9 Advertising Channel, Suppliers and Clienteles

10 Market Dynamics

11 Global Organic Food & Beverage Market Estimate

12 Investigations and Conclusion

13 Important Findings in the Global Organic Food & Beverage Study

14 Appendixes

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LAKEWOOD, Colo.,Dec. 10, 2019/PRNewswire/ --Natural Grocers, America's Nutrition Education ExpertSM, surveyed the company's nutrition experts and pored over the latest research to identify the expectedTop 10 Nutrition Trendsin nutrition and health in 2020.

The author, Natural Grocers' Manager of Scientific Affairs and Nutrition Education Shelby Miller, MS in Dietetics and Exercise Science, pinpoints the most anticipated health, nutrition and food trends in the New Year. Interviews withShelby Millerare available upon request.[1]

1.Begin to Address Our Single-Use Plastic Problem

2019 brought home the very real consequences of our single-use plastic-laden lifestyles. Single-use plastics require vast quantities of fossil fuels and water, which contribute to climate change and pollution. Plastic bags, bottles, utensils, straws, and food packaging are used briefly, but live on in the environment for generations. The good news? The demand for plastic-free alternatives is higher than ever and because of this growing consumer focus, the industry is responding. The more we reduce the demand for single-use plastics and instead purchase reusable bottles, bags, straws and utensils, the better it is for our health and the environment.

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Some say that eating a proper diet is all you need to get the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients required for optimal health. But despite our best efforts, we often miss the nutritional mark by eating suboptimal foods that lack key nutrients. A simple daily regimen of Five-to-Thrive Foundational Supplements can help catapult us into optimal health.

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3.Salt & Butter Are Healthy. Yes. Healthy.

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Sodiumis, in fact, a necessary electrolyte. In addition, fats, especially saturated fats, have been demonized for far too long. Research shows that saturated fats are not detrimental to health and in fact play a crucial role in our body's daily functioning. The real culprit driving poor health is sugar and chemically modified fats like mono- and diglycerides and hydrogenated vegetable oils.

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4.Responsible Plant-Based Choices

Climate change is the single most important challenge facing us today. The plant-based diet is a popular habit many are adopting with hopes of reducing their carbon footprint and protecting Mother Earth. As well-intentioned as the plant-based approach may be, if we really think about the foods we eat, many of the mainstream, plant-based products aren't as earth-friendly as we might think.

Plant-based meat substitutions that rely on conventionally grown primary ingredients are the opposite of good for the environment. If GMOs, fertilizers, pesticides, and other industrial farming practices were utilized to make your soy burger, it'smoredetrimental to the environment. If plant-based is the route for you, try to shift to truly sustainable plant-based food choices. Support organic farming methods that foster soil health and can reverse climate change by essentially sucking the carbon out of the atmosphere and depositing it into the ground, where it belongs.

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Phosphatidylserine (PS)is a phospholipid, and studies show it can help improve cognition and support the hippocampus, a region of the brain that bears the brunt of stress. Acetyl-L-carnitine has the unique ability to pass through the blood-brain barrier where it supports mental energy, improves cognitive function and focus, and fights depression.Mushroomslike lion's mane, cordyceps, and reishi support mental acuity, energize the brain, and support concentration and clarity during times of stress.[2]

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6.Health Coaching: Offering the One-on-One Support You Need

The average patient-doctor interaction lasts a mere seven minutes. This doesn't offer nearly enough time to provide one-on-one, personalized wellness solutions for your health concerns. Thus, more and more people are turning to health coaches for nutrition know-how based on science and validated research.

At Natural Grocers, we put the emphasis on nutrition with our NHCs, who receive more than 160 hours of science-based continuing education and nutrition training annually. The aim of ourNHCsis to help individuals live their best and healthiest lives by focusing on their individual health needs and goals in a personalized and supportive way. Our NHCs are all credentialed and all of their services, including 90-minute individualized coaching sessions, are FREE.

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7.Regenerative Agriculture to Fight Climate Change

There is nothing more important than our food choices when it comes to our own health and to the health of the planet. Climate change is a daunting challenge that is facing all of us and we can all make a difference by choosing food grown using regenerative agriculture. Organic produce, grass-fed and pasture-based animal products and biodynamic olive oil and wines are foods that not only support our overall health and wellbeing but have the potential, when done right, to help reverse climate change.

Regenerative agricultureis defined as farming and grazing practices that, among other things,reverseclimate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded nutrients, resulting in soil that can sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and improve the water cycle. At Natural Grocers, we strongly believe that our food choices can affect real change and one of the most measurable ways to support the health of the planet is to support farmers and ranchers practicing regenerative land management.

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8.Biohack Your Health with Methylation Adaptogens

"Methylation" has become a buzzword among the health and wellness community, and while it may not yet be on your radar, it is one of the most important biohacks for health out there, and methylation adaptogens make it easier to manage. Methylation is required for just about every single process that goes on in the body, from gene expression to the production of RNA and DNA, to the production of neurotransmitters to mitochondrial health.

But balance is the key. When balanced, when the body does not over or under methylate all of these systems work and we feel great. We sleep well, have loads of energy, can focus, remember and learn, our joints don't ache, and our cardiovascular system is in tip-top shape. On the other hand, methylation imbalances can lead to a wide range of conditions, including depression, anxiety, heart disease, increased risk of cancer, hormone imbalance, poor detox capacity, infertility, birth defects, fatigue, and low energy.

Methylation adaptogens help to restore methylation balancewell and include nutrients like lutein, curcumin, and grape seed extract. These are nutrients that gently support our body's own ability to stabilize and balance methylation, without the risk of over or under-methylating.

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9.Mental Wellbeing Prioritized

Mental health is just as important as physical health and we need to shift focus to supporting mental wellbeing with a healthy diet and the right supplements.

Explore ways to support mental health, with products such as Bach flower remedies and essential oils, as well as supplements like magnesium and acetyl-L-carnitine, all powerful tools to help bring balance and calm. Take a holistic approach and look to modalities like meditation, emotional freedom technique (EFT), body energy work, and talk therapy in combination with nutrition and supplements to support mental wellbeing.

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10.Support Your GI Tract from Top to Bottom

Learning to appreciate our gut bugs has opened our eyes to the idea that having healthy digestion is the "first domino" to supporting the rest of our healthincluding our immune system, brain health, and more. But supporting digestion isn't simply taking a probiotic and loving your large intestine. Learn how to support the health of your entiregastrointestinal tractand how to promote intestinal wellness with nutrients like DGL, zinc carnosine, and L-glutamine that nourish and heal the lining of the intestinal tract. Digestive enzymes are also coming to center stage to support our small intestine and its daunting daily task of breaking down the foods we eat into the nutrients we need to support every single cell and bodily process. Every. Single. One.

TRY THIS TREND:Read up on how to best support yourdigestive healthand digestive comfort and do something today to treat your gut to a little TLC. Try a cup of bone broth or a kombucha for an easy first step.

About Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC;NaturalGrocers.com) is an expanding specialty retailer of organic and natural groceries, body care products and dietary supplements. The company offers a flexible, neighborhood-store format, affordable prices and free, science-based nutrition education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. Founded inColoradoin 1955, Natural Grocers has more than 3,500 employees and operates 154 stores in 20 states.

[1] The statements in this press release have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

[2] Mushroom supplements may be contraindicated for people with certain types of autoimmune disease. If you have an autoimmune condition, please contact your healthcare professional before taking a dietary supplement containing mushrooms.

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We radiate data every day, all day. The more we interconnect, the more our information exhaust gets captured and refined into dark dossiers that identify and define us to unknown parties for unknown purposes. It's part of the reason why certain ads seem to know us better than we know ourselves. Algorithms mysteriously assemble our data into occasionally accurate predictions, but we're dispossessed of the knowledge to understand how it works. We're referred to by pseudonyms instead of the names our parents gave us, hashed numbers assigned as our unique identifiers. These mysterious IDs link us to our shadow profiles pumping through the data supply chain in high-speed auctions without our express knowledge or unambiguous consent. It's much easier to believe the conspiracy theory that our phones are always listening to us than it is to grasp the alien machine brain that has been modeling us in a simulation to get us to click, scroll, swipe and spend.

You may have seen the documentary The Great Hack that is, unless the algorithm decided not to push it on you. Along with Carole Cadwalladr, the reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Brittany Kaiser, a former CA employee who recently published a memoir, the film follows my personal journey into the heart of darkness that was this data privacy cataclysm, trying to get my own data back. (For those who need a quick refresher on the saga, Cambridge Analytica, the Steve Bannon co-founded spin-off of a British military contractor that was bought by American far-right mega donor Robert Mercer, was hired by the Trump and Cruz campaigns to micro-target voters with psychologically enriched profiles generated from an illegal data-harvesting scheme that used a personality quiz to pilfer the data from 87 million unsuspecting Facebook users. Then, 30 million of those profiles were matched to voter files, allowing a data model to be generated that was applied to more than 200 million registered voters, even if they weren't on Facebook. I sued them in the UK for this mass data abuse against our country.)

There was something particularly surreal about having my name mentioned in UK Parliamentary hearings, especially after waking up before dawn in New York to watch the livestreams of the committee hearings in London investigating the scandal. The film captures me live-tweeting Parliament, digesting the incredible revelations from witnesses giving evidence in real time. Along with this public evidence, I excavated court filings from my lawsuit to find the legal proof that my worst fears had been justified that Cambridge Analytica had indeed interfered in our democracy.

Strangely, I had standing to sue because in a weird twist of fate, the infamous Cambridge Analytica ended up exporting Americans' voter data into the United Kingdom. As a consequence, this exposed their data crimes to European law, which grants people simple, fundamental data rights, rights that we don't (yet) grant ourselves in America. This includes the right to request your data from companies and organizations that collect and process it within the UK, regardless of citizenship. That means I wouldn't have had this legal right if Cambridge Analytica had kept our voter data here at home.

In the end, my effort to repatriate my voter profile resulted in the only criminal conviction of the company because they refused to hand over all my data as ordered by the UK's data cops, the Information Commissioner's Office. The company offered me about a dozen data points after bragging it had up to 5,000 data points for all American adults. Experts that reviewed my data suspected that it was not only incomplete but also unlawfully assembled on UK soil.

Shining a bright light on this cloak-and-dagger world of mass data abuse revealed how personal data leakage is being exploited by a shadowy international election interference industry. The common sentiment "I don't care about my privacy because I have nothing to hide" doesn't grapple with how rogue actors don't have to abuse your own data in order to try and hack the whole electorate and alter the course of history. As Brittany Kaiser, the former CA employee who was featured in The Great Hack, described it to me when I asked her how she responds to people resigned to privacy apathy, she pointed out that "some people will use your data to manipulate you into hating your neighbor, or not wanting to vote. Others will make billions of dollars off of selling your data to others without your knowledge, sharing none of that value with you." Her new memoir Targeted makes a compelling case that leaving it up to people to opt out, rather than requiring that they first opt in, makes our country vulnerable to deception. In that way, data rights laws offer a kind of herd immunity against mass data abusers, but this saga also laid bare for Americans that we don't have equal data rights to our friends and allies in the EU.

Given these eye-opening, eye-watering revelations, people understandably want to know what they can do to protect themselves from all this data leakage. While the vast majority of us can't go off the grid, we can limit the flood of data coming out. Being privacy-defensive online is a bit like paying extra for organic food: It feels better to try and support the more ethical option, even if the overall impact on the massive global data industries involved may be minuscule. And building up your personal data privacy defenses is not just good self-care. It's a boycott of unfair industry practices and unchecked corporate power.

But similar to the carbon pollution problem, data radiation is a new facet of the human condition that we are made to feel personally responsible for, despite government being the only viable mechanism available to us that has ever succeeded at inhibiting such profit-driven destruction on an industrial scale. Just as government has so far refused to enact sweeping new policies to combat climate change, leaving us on our own to fight global warming via consumption choices that are limited to whatever the market offers (recycling, electric cars, organic and vegan foods), we are stuck contending with ad hoc market-based solutions to deal with mass data abuse (i.e., adblockers, lawsuits, privacy settings). It's a special kind of gaslighting that we are the ones who have been made to feel guilty about having our data abused by transnational organized crime to subvert our democracies.

Most laws, especially outside of the EU, which grants data rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, generally impose all the consequences of making false choices on consumers. In America, we have virtually no data rights outside of rather narrow situations, like being a student in school (FERPA) or a patient in a clinical setting (HIPAA) or a kid (COPPA). Of course, no one reads the privacy policy anyway because there's no way to understand the implications.

Because we are mandated to do the work of being defensive by the corporate regime that insists "we care about your privacy" but never defines what that means, it takes time, patience and perseverance to send the signals to the marketing surveillance industrial complex that you want out. Even so, you are contributing to an analytic that will be measured, expressing your preference to be left alone and to see ads detached from your dark data dossier. The more of us that do the work to opt out, the more the industry will measure our boycott and fail at lobbying lawmakers to water down and loophole new data rights bills being drafted in statehouses and on The Hill.

To become more privacy-defensive and join the boycott, the first thing to do is consider how much Facebook and Google you can eliminate from your life. Most of us probably cannot practically delete our accounts (hate to break it to you, but Instagram and WhatsApp are also owned by Facebook), but if you're lucky enough to not depend on these platforms for your school or job, you probably won't miss them that much.

Dig deep into the settings to hunt for the switches that turn ad targeting and personalization off. In your Google account settings, you flick switches to "pause" data collection or set your data to auto-delete after a period of time, at which point they've already harvested your behaviors into their algorithms. Even ditching Chrome for other browsers sends a strong signal. Alternatives like Safari, Firefox and Brave now block cross-site trackers by default.

After subscribing to your trusted news publications, you'll want to install a trustworthy adblocker on both your desktop and mobile devices but be wary of the most popular options, which let trackers in by default. This is because Google and other adtech companies pay companies like Adblock Plus and AdBlock to be on a "whitelist" of ads that don't get blocked because they are deemed to be "acceptable." (I use the Disconnect.me Privacy Pro VPN on my iPhone, Ghostery for Firefox, Brave, Better Blocker in Safari and uBlock Origin in Chrome.) Probably the most expensive privacy defensive act would be ditching Android for iPhone to more fully de-Googlize your life. In either case, dig into your phone's privacy settings and "Limit Ad Tracking" while resetting your device identifier. This will offer some opt-out protection for ads and trackers embedded within apps, often the most pernicious, covertly pumping your data back to the motherships in Palo Alto and Mountain View and who knows where else.

You've made it this far, mastered the controls, exercised your preferences and secured the perimeter. The creepy ads should be gone. But there's still untold volumes of your data being bought and sold on the open market with an unspecified half-life. Companies you've never heard of have been collecting and broadcasting your personal data and pseudonyms in the real-time auctions that fire off in milliseconds and put a hidden price tag on your attention based on your own intimate traits and tendencies. And, ultimately, we can put in all this work to reduce, or even obfuscate our dark data dossiers, but we can never really know how much is already out there or for how long it'll remain. Opting out is arguably a symbolic, political act when you realize the futility of the efforts.

Perhaps the most effective means of resisting the dark data industrial complex is to do some democracy. California's landmark Consumer Privacy Act becomes enforceable in January 2020 and moves the needle in the US toward the EU in terms of data rights and protections while also starting to shift the burden of consent off of people to the shadow industry of extractors, refiners and arbitrageurs. Californians should learn about their new data rights and flex them. Research from the ad industry suggests that only a small minority of users will allow their data to be used to micro-target us for ads next year, upending the industry's well-worn claim that people prefer ad relevance over privacy. California also has the chance to further strengthen their law in an upcoming ballot initiative, addressing the critical role of political advertising and targeting, cutting into the heart of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

California also joined Vermont in passing a law that mandates a state registry of data brokers, and for the first time, consumers can glimpse at a legally mandated list of previously unknown entities that have been profiting on our secrets for years, hidden in the shadows. New York is another economic powerhouse state debating a data rights act that goes farther than California's. These important actions in statehouses raise the bar for Congress, who will have to grant states serious concessions from the industry lobby that desperately wants these new state laws to be preempted by a national standard, as weak as they can get it, with as many loopholes as they can engineer. In that way, the most significant thing you can do as a US voter might be not tediously finagling fine-print settings but instead contacting your state representatives and asking them to stand up to the personal data industrial complex and co-sponsor a data rights bill to outdo California's. Demand your right to know how your data could be affecting your life.

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Heres a piece of advice for aspiring restaurateurs out there: If you are going to open a restaurant, particularly one that serves a cuisine from a culture that is unfamiliar to you, youd damned well better do your research. Otherwise, you might end up like Arielle Haspel, a white nutritionist who decided to open up Lucky Lees, a clean Chinese restaurant in Manhattan last spring. Lucky Lees is now closed, after just eight months.

Lucky Lees was the center of controversy even before it opened. As Chinese chefs and food writers point out, the word clean implies that other Chinese food is dirty, a stereotype that Chinese restaurants have been fighting for decades. Haspel didnt help her cause by posting messages on Instagram like, We heard youre obsessed with lo mein but rarely eat it. You said it makes you feel bloated and icky the next day? Well, wait until you slurp up our HIGH lo mein. Not too oily. Or salty. Then it was revealed that the restaurant was named after Haspels husband Lee, who is also white, leading to charges of cultural appropriation. The backlash was such that Yelp had to disable Lucky Lees listing.

The New York Times published a lengthy article about the controversy including an interview with Haspel, who explained that clean was a reference to the clean eating movement, which involves consumption of organic foods and olive oil and the avoidance of MSG, and apologized for misrepresenting Chinese food. We were never trying to do something against the Chinese community, she said. We thought we were complementing an incredibly important cuisine, in a way that would cater to people that had certain dietary requirements. The Times also quoted Haspels critics at length, who pointed out that many Chinese restaurants already used organic ingredients and that they didnt feel bloated when they ate Chinese food. A story about the closing by NBC News added that bias against MSG is less about scientifically proven health effects and more about racism.

Lucky Lees was one of a group of lucky Chinese restaurants founded by white people, including Andrew Zimmerns Lucky Cricket outside Minneapolis and Gordon Ramsays Lucky Cat in London.

Both of those, however, remain open.

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