Europe's CO2 Shortage Threatens Medicine, Nuclear Safety, Food

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The ongoing semiconductor shortage has certainly caught a wide range of industries off guard. Now, countless European businesses are about to learn another hard lesson in supply chain economics.

A shortage of carbon dioxide — manufactured by fertilizer companies — is already threatening everything from food to nuclear power in the United Kingdom. And on Wednesday, one of the world's largest gas distributors said continental Europe is about to feel the pain, too.

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