HK finds traces of coke in energy drink
Hong Kong: Hong Kong officials say they have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong officials say they have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink.
Food security is fundamentally about achieving reliable access to adequate, affordable and nutritious food supplies sufficient to avoid chronic hunger, crisis hunger and stunted development.
The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTCQ) has said three popular brands of edible oil -Dhara, Family and Shakti have been found substandard and unfit for consumption.
million pot pies last year under its popular Banquet label
Energy drinks sold in restaurants and grocery stores have caught the eye of food regulators in Maharashtra. In the first week of April, they seized large quantities of beverages sold under brands like Red Bull, Cloud 9, Fighter and SoBe Adrenaline Rush from godowns in Pune and Mumbai.
Maharashtra food regulators seize consignments energy drinks sold in restaurants and grocery stores have caught the eye of food regulators in Maharashtra. In the first week of April, they seized large quantities of beverages sold under brands like Red Bull, Cloud 9, Fighter and SoBe Adrenaline Rush from godowns in Pune and Mumbai. Officials of the Food and Drug Administration found
A US bill undermines small farms, even gardening the Green Party of the US has urged the government to amend the food safety bill to protect small-scale farms and organic farming. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 was introduced in the US House of Agriculture in February. It is pending with the House Committee on Agriculture. Following a recent wave of contaminated food
Urea in milk
Every few weeks, it seems, deadly germs turn up in the food supply. Heather Why brew, a college student in Washington State, became gravely ill after eating a salad in her school cafeteria. Carl Ours, of Ohio, was temporarily paralyzed after eating chili dogs and drinking beer. Mari Tardiff, of California, spent three months on life support after she drank unpasteurized milk.
Canada said on Monday it will pursue World Trade Organisation action against China if it maintains its ban on pork and hogs from the province of Alberta. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Saturday it had found the H1N1 flu virus in a swine herd in the western province of Alberta, prompting the ban by China.
New Delhi: Not only cooked pork but even processed pork products like ham, sausage, bacon and salami are safe to eat. So, feel free to gorge on your ham and salami club sandwich or a spicy pork vindaloo.
Clipboard in hand, Debra Anderson spent three hours one recent sunny morning trooping through a field of romaine lettuce looking for trouble. Workers harvest romaine lettuce at a Church Brothers field in Huron, Calif. Increasingly, auditors below the federal level are inspecting produce fields and other farms.
India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know?
Bt brinjal, the country
Savvy Soumya Misra And Kirtiman Awasthi India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know? On January 14, a meeting happened in room 23 on the sixth floor of the Union environment ministry building in Delhi. On the ministry
US pitched against EU The US government has backed biotech companies, while European countries have reservations about transgenic crops
After decades of steady progress, the safety of the nation
George Joseph / Kochi April 9, 2009, 0:09 IST Indian seafood exports to Japan have hit a bump after the foreign country
The potential health impact, called by some an
GM maize trial is being conducted with the approval of Govt. Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has refuted the charges made by Safe Food Alliance pertaining to field trial of Genetically Modified (GM) crop varieties. No scientific basis