If you need to study a controversial topic, look no further!    Two quite polarized views can be identified.  First,  we have the massive great food conglomerates, backed by food organisations.   Here you should find a common message  such as  ” Hang o­n, don’t panic, we need more evidence and more research…”.

Then there are the consumers of food, and the consumer organisations which take a view  “There appears to be enough evidence, the additive should be removed now for the safety of all consumers “.  As far as the consumers are concerned they adopt a precautionary principle, which in effect is a ‘better safe than sorry’approach.  After all,  waiting for further research to be completed could take ages.  In the meantime, the health of consumers could continue to be affected,  if the initial research is supported by further studies.

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Here are some revision activities for

GCSE Applied Science:  Communications

Global Networks  Routing      Sports Photographer

TV Gallery  Ofcom  Communications Business

You can download the ZIP package, to try o­n your own computer from

http://www.scienceblog.org/revision/communications/communicateweb.zip

You can also download the Hot Potatoes package

http://www.scienceblog.org/revision/communications/communicate.zip

(Hot Potatoes will need to be installed to run these exercises)

Need paper versions? : Download these for Printing  (Paper based activities)

Looking for revision activities o­n the (Applied) Materials Module?  Here are some exercises you can try…..