The UN has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing a serious health and food crisis,
as Israeli air strikes continued for a seventh straight day. The UN’s chief aid co-ordinator
for the territory, Maxwell Gaylard, said the “critical emergency” comes despite an
increase in humanitarian shipments. Israel said people in Gaza were continuing to
receive sufficient food and medicines. Palestinian officials say the death toll in the fighting
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In a recent announcement, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says there is no reason to require labels for foods made from animals that were genetically engineered and sold to American consumers. The animals themselves will require labels designating them as genetically engineered, once such an animal is created that passes the FDA approval process. Thus far, no such animals have met approval for marketing.
The announcement was met with Read the rest of this entry »
With the peanut butter scare making news — the latest in a series involving salmonella-contaminated foods including tomatoes, jalapeno peppers and E. coli-contaminated spinach — there again rises the public clamor for doing something.
In the not distant past, studies have confirmed that the people reasonably enough are very much concerned about the safety of the food they eat.
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MONTHS after a country hospital served baked beans for three weeks because NSW Health had not paid its meat bill, staff are still using petty cash to buy food over the counter for patients because businesses are refusing to deal with the health service.
Meat supplies were cut off to 15 hospitals across the Greater Western Area Health Service in September after the Dubbo Meat Company waited four months for a $30,000 bill to be settled.
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that have been recalled in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which has made at least 600 people ill and is tied to nine deaths, the Associated Press reports. With the poor economy and millions of families depending on food pantries for help, it’s a particularly bad time to have to toss thousands of pounds of food. The Houston Food Bank, for example, has already thrown out 3,000 recalled peanut products, and the Cleveland Food Clinic has discarded Read the rest of this entry »
that have been recalled in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which has made at least 600 people ill and is tied to nine deaths, the Associated Press reports. With the poor economy and millions of families depending on food pantries for help, it’s a particularly bad time to have to toss thousands of pounds of food. The Houston Food Bank, for example, has already thrown out 3,000 recalled peanut products, and the Cleveland Food Clinic has discarded Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack believes a single U.S. agency should be created and put in charge of the food safety work now handled by a variety of agencies, said a spokesman on Friday.
The spokesman was not immediately able to say if Vilsack’s view was shared by the Obama administration.
Earlier this week, a House subcommittee chairwoman introduced a bill to split apart the Food and Drug Administration to create a separate Read the rest of this entry »
Who should take the title?
On the one hand, there’s the FDA.
containing mercury swept the Internet: In Environmental Health, researchers revealed mercury was detectable in nine out of 20 samples of commercial HFCS; separately, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy discovered nearly one in three of 55 brand-name foods tested contained mercury.
Coke adds life. And HFCS — about 17 teaspoons per 20 ounce bottle.
Some HFCS is made with Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters) – China will launch a pre-Lunar New Year crackdown on food safety, the Health Ministry said on Monday, focusing on illegal use of additives after a milk scandal last year killed at least six babies and made thousands sick. The campaign would focus on seven provinces, including Hebei where the milk contamination scandal began, ministry spokesman Mao Qunan told a news conference.
“Groups and individuals who have broken the Read the rest of this entry »
Chapter 1: Barley History: Relationship of Man and Barley Through the
Ages.
Chapter 2: Barley Taxonomy, Morphology and Anatomy.
Chapter 3: Barley Biotechnology: Breeding and Transgenics.
Chapter 4: Barley Genetics and Nutrient Composition.
Chapter 5: Barley Processing: Methods and Product Composition.
Chapter 6: Evaluation of Food Product Quality.
Chapter 7: Barley Food Product Research and Development. Read the rest of this entry »