Food Safety
Do you know what's in your food?
With all of the problems in our food system, it can be hard to find the information we need to make smart choices about the food we eat. Use this page to keep up to date on food safety issues, including pesticides, aspartame, flouridation, irraditation, toxic sludge, mad cow disease, and more.
First, this positive result is from the second test conducted on this particular cow in Alabama. The first test also Read more
The industrial food lobby is freaking-out over "Chew On This", his new book aimed at youngsters, and the fact that his "Fast Food Nation" is being made into a major Hollywood movie with the same title. Best Food Nation Read more
In Britain, paranoia is rife about human-to-human vCJD transmission via blood. This disease is the newest type of Read more
The company booked a cool $113 million profit from HFCS over the quarter, more than three times more than it netted in the same period a year before ($33 million). This, despite a slowing domestic market for sweet soft drinks, as consumers increasingly switch to juice and bottled water. The company's official explanation -- "increased sweetener and starch selling prices" -- Read more
A ranching and meat-processing company in Kansas wants to test all its cattle for mad cow disease at its own expense. The Bush administration won't let the firm do it. Oh, but that's not all. If the company tries to buy the $20 testing kits, the feds will treat such a transaction as an illegal purchase of a controlled substance.
We wish we were making this up, but we're not. Talk about mad cow, this is crazy people. It's also an intrusive government abusing an old law.
In 1913, when cholera was decimating hog herds, scam artists were selling fake serums to farmers. Congress
Read moreThe United States, though, is still trying to persuade Japan to lift a mad-cow-related ban on imports of American beef. A meeting between U. S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns and Japanese Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa is scheduled for next week. Japan, the top foreign buyer of U. S Read more
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Are there chemical residues on apples?
Yes. First, be aware that while it is in the interests of supermarkets to control the level of pesticide and post-harvest fungicide drenches applied to Read more
SEOUL (Yonhap) - The United States has failed to provide the date of birth of a cow linked to a third case of mad cow disease on its shores, a matter that could jeopardize Seoul's resumption of American beef imports, the government said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said Washington forwarded information on the cow Friday but gave no conclusive evidence to indicate its age.
"The data contained expert testimonies by veterinarians, but we cannot determine for certain if the cow was born before April 1998,'' said Park Hyun-chul, head of the ministry's
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Minneapolis - Brand name chicken products sold in American supermarkets andfast food restaurants are widely contaminated with arsenic, according toindependent test results released today by the Institute for Agriculture andTrade Policy (IATP).
Testing of 155 samples from uncooked supermarket chicken products found 55percent carried detectable arsenic. Arsenic was more than twice as prevalentin conventional brands of
Read moreLONDON - Many of the world's top food companies are not doing enough to help cut the salt, fat and sugar which are contributing to a global, diet-related health crisis, according to a report on Tuesday.
It called the response of the top 25 firms "pathetic" and said many only changed their ways when faced with bad publicity.
The report, by London's City University, looked at how the companies had responded to targets set in 2004 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to tackle obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
The group studied annual reports, accounts and Web sites
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