Tag: made in china
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USDA Tracks Down on Honey Laundering
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States.
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Food Scandals Prompt Organic Growth In China
Food safety scandals have helped propel rapid growth in the the organic food sector of China’s economy, according to the Telegraph.
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mystery substance found in chinese fluoride added to mass. water
‘investigative’ story on mystery substance distracts from the fact fluoride is a deadly killer from wcvb-tv: Fluoride is added to the water most of us drink because the government believes it’s a safe and inexpensive way to prevent tooth decay. However, Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid…
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New Software Shows US One of Top Five Food Safety Offenders
A new global monitoring tool identifies the United States as one of the top five worst food safety offenders, along with China, Turkey, Iran, and Spain. The findings are based on food contamination data collected between 2003 and 2008.
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2/11 binge & purge: codex, cocktails & cola cancer
video: how organic is organic? codex alimentarius cohorts wage war against food* (more on codex alimentarius here & here) pharma says: stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies* food stamps at record 32.8m* china recalls 170 tons of melamine milk* flashback: another melamine-tainted milk scandal in china* nyc cracks down on eggs in cocktails* soft drinks…
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more food safety news: beef, babies, nuts & budgets
should we care about genetically modified foods?*seed monopolies: the warning signs were there*failure to declare leads to recalls*west missouri beef recalls 14,000lbs*more melamine-tainted milk found in china*baby formula recalled in middle east*usda releases study on peanut industry*washington to ban bpa in food containers for kids*obama boosts fda food safety in fy2011 budget*
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food safety news: reports, records & even more recalls
bpi sues to keep ammonia beef records private* flashback: beef products inc. injects your meat with ammonia*mainstream media focuses on food safety* chicken pot pies recalled*oregon hazelnut recalls make fda report* 38 state salmonella montevideo outbreak*pepper suspected in salmonella outbreak*water distributors in west virginia & rhode island get fda warnings* usda to lift 21yr ban…
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another melamine-tainted milk scandal in china
from ntdtv: A new milk safety scandal has broken out in China. Authorities in Shanghai have closed a dairy company and arrested three executives, after milk products were found to contain high levels of the toxic industrial chemical melamine. According to the state-run Shanghai Daily, melamine was found in milk powder and condensed milk made…
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sigg bottles had bpa all along
from ecochildsplay: SIGG bottles, long upheld as the standard by which all non-plastic drink bottles should be compared, favourite of hippies and eco-gurus, juggernaut and arguably the biggest player in the metal bottle industry, has finally fessed up. Their “water-based epoxy liner”, long rumoured (but never confirmed) to contain BPA, indeed had BPA all along.…