UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. expert says junk food is a human rights concern. Hilal Elver, the U.N.’s special representative on the right to food, said Tuesday the rise of industrial food production combined with trade liberalization has allowed large corporations to flood the global market with cheap, nutrient-poor foods ... Read More »
Lower food prices likely cooled India’s inflation rate in August, a Reuters poll showed, but probably not by enough to give the central bank scope to ease monetary policy again anytime soon.Official data on the consumer price index is due to be released at 1200 GMT on Monday. The median ... Read More »
Offline threats to consumers like business fraud have long turned up in the online world. So it’s no surprise that long-time safety woes in China’s food industry are also bedeviling a public that increasingly orders meals and snacks by smartphone. Take-out delivery firm Ele.me, invested by the country’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, ... Read More »
Thousands of Venezuelans were welcomed to Colombia by a military band early on Saturday morning as the two countries’ borders were officially reopened after being closed by Venezuela a year ago. Some people had traveled across Venezuela to queue overnight hoping to cross to buy food and other basics that ... Read More »
Thousands of Venezuelans were welcomed to Colombia by a military band early on Saturday morning as the two countries’ borders were officially reopened after being closed by Venezuela a year ago. Some people had traveled across Venezuela to queue overnight hoping to cross to buy food and other basics that ... Read More »
Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh will leave for Saudi Arabia soon to assess the severity of the food crisis faced by nearly 10,000 Indians rendered jobless and will explore their possible return, with Saudi authorities assuring assistance. Singh will travel to the Gulf nation in the ... Read More »
Good news today for egg lovers. Official channels have deemed raw eggs safe to eat for even pregnant women, u-turning on 15 years of advice to the contrary by the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food. The governmental body had previously recommended ‘vulnerable’ groups such as the very young, the very old or those who ... Read More »
Scientists have found a way to turn waste byproducts from the olive oil production process into biosurfactants and monoglycerides, molecules immensely useful to the chemical and food industries. Biosurfactants and monoglycerides are surface active agents, or surficants — part oil-soluble component, part water-soluble component. Surficants are used to lower surface ... Read More »
SATURDAY, May 28, 2016 — Picnics and barbecues are a big part of Memorial Day weekend, but keeping foods safe to eat at these events can be a challenge. The first step is to wash your hands before and after handling any foods. If you’re outdoors and don’t have access ... Read More »
China has dropped a plan to bring a national law regulating halal food following mixed reactions from public and scholars who accused the atheist government of meddling in religious affairs. The drafting of a law on halal food was not listed in China’s legislative work plan for this year after ... Read More »
Phthalates come from a class of industrial chemicals that are used to make food packaging materials and other items involved in the manufacture of fast food and dairy produce. Previous studies have suggested that these chemicals leach out of plastic food packaging, causing contamination of highly processed foods. Researchers at ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, April 15 — Mars Food, which makes some of the most popular rices, candy bars and jarred sauces, among other foods, has announced plans to improve the nutritional content of their products and add labels warning about health dangers from consuming too much of the less healthy products. Mars ... Read More »
