Food safety meetings seek horse meat clarity
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed it has nearly a thousand more tests to conduct but so far has not found any new cases of horse meat in beef ...
View ArticleNiche cafes fill a tall order for moms and toddlers
It's noon on a bright, cold Friday and the lineup is deep at a south-west cafe where baristas race to fill orders for designer coffees and grilled paninis. Deanna Nielsen and Emma Kolskog wait ...
View Article7DAYS published Food for thought - cut down on your portions
I must say the food was great but the eatery should be closed down - it’s just not right to encourage people to eat so much food. I ordered a dish and had to leave half of what was on my plate ...
View ArticleUN official alarmed by rise of food banks in UK
An explosion in the number of people forced to rely on food handouts in the UK could represent a human rights abuse, a top United Nations official has ...
View ArticleStudy Hummingbirds migrating earlier making food a concern warmer weather may...
In this June 10, 2008 photo provided by Terry Sohl, a male Ruby-throated hummingbird feeds at a honeysuckle plant, in Brandon, S.D. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks ...
View ArticleSpanghero’s meat licence suspended
The government said it was meeting with representatives of the 300-odd workers on Monday. The sanitary licence of the Spanghero plant was temporarily revoked last ...
View ArticleBrain food How to boost your memory
Like any organ, the brain can't live on love and fresh air! When it can't regenerate properly, it doesn't function as well. There are 40 substances that are essential for your brain: ...
View ArticleMinister set for meat talks later
The environment secretary is set to meet food retailers and trade bodies later to establish what is being done to restore consumer confidence. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons are among ...
View ArticleScience Weekly Extra podcast water and food sustainability
The first of a series of panel discussions on the scientific, technological and social challenges of achieving sustainability in water, food and energy ...
View ArticleHalve meat consumption scientists urge rich world
Beef carcasses at a wholesale meat market in Paris. The quest for ever cheaper meat has 'caused a web of water and air pollution that is damaging human health', a UN report says. ...
View ArticleFood innovators have a taste for creating new products
Long known for its natural organic yogurts, Glenisk recently introduced yogurts for babies and younger children that don’t have the added refined sugars usually associated with such ...
View Article120 sites face inspection as hunt for horse meat grows
By Anna Maguire - 18 February 2013 More than 100 premises across Northern Ireland are set to be inspected as the horse meat scandal continues to ...
View ArticleProcessed food lacking certification in Bangladesh
The question of how safe it is to consume processed foods in Bangladesh remains up in the air due to the government's negligence, with many items lacking quality certification from government ...
View ArticleTrinis eating horse meat
EVEN as Europe is hit by a food scandal of the secret addition of ground-up horse meat to beef to make hamburgers, reports are that Trinis are knowingly eating horse-steaks as a delicacy. In fact, ...
View ArticleIrish food firms global ‘leaders’ for trace ability
By Joe Dermody USE of advanced traceability systems in the agri-food processing chain has helped underpin Ireland's global reputation for food excellence, says one expert in this technology ...
View ArticleAustralian Philippine firms initiate food venture
The country's leading food and plastic input manufacturer D&L Industries has teamed up with big Australian food ingredient companies Manildra Group and MSM Milling to introduce to the ...
View ArticleCut back meat consumption experts
People should halve the amount of meat they eat as part of efforts to cut pollution caused by nutrients such as nitrogen, experts have said. Nitrogen and other mineral fertilisers are key to feeding ...
View ArticleIrrigation opportunities that could turn Australia into a food bowl for Asia
Australia The issue of irrigation could make or break plans to for Australia to become the food bowl for Asia.New water licences are being released in the Flinders River Basin, a massive catchment ...
View ArticleNo point getting on high horse over meat
In some cases, such as a popular value lasagne, the horsemeat component was found by DNA testing to be as high as 100 per cent.European horse-eating nations such as France could be found laughing at ...
View ArticleSometimes Food Additives Are Pretty Innocuous
food science professor, Cornell University The uproar over what critics call "pink slime" in some ground beef refocused attention on what's in the food we eat. Most ...
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