Tag: reports
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Rising Food Prices Pinching Consumers
from usatoday.com: Two months of sharp increases in food prices show grocers are starting to pass along their higher wholesale costs to consumers. Retail food prices rose 0.4% in March, the same as in February and the largest amount since September 2011. By comparison, the prices of all consumer goods rose 0.2% in March and…
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Are Secret, Dangerous Ingredients In Your Food?
from washingtonpost.com: Food manufacturers are routinely exploiting a “legal loophole” that allows them to use new chemicals in their products, based on their own safety studies, without ever notifying the Food and Drug Administration, according to a new report by an environmental and consumer advocacy group.
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GMO Cultivation Declines in Developed Nations for First Time in 18 Years
from naturalnews.com: For the first time since their initial commercialization in the mid-1990s, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are on the decline in the industrialized world, says a new report by the pro-biotech lobbying group International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, or ISAAA. Despite heavy promotion of the technology by the chemical industry, which…
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US Lets 141 Trillion Calories Of Food Go To Waste Each Year
from npr.org: The sheer volume of food wasted in the U.S. each year should cause us some shame, given how many people are hungry both in our own backyard and abroad. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided us with a way to understand our flagrant annual waste in terms of calories, too. It’s…
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Hundreds of Foods in US Contain ‘ADA’ Plastics Chemical
from reuters.com: Nearly 500 foods found on grocery store shelves in the United States, including many foods labeled as “healthy,” contain a potentially hazardous industrial plastics chemical, according to a report issued Thursday by a health research and advocacy group. Azodicarbonamide, also known as ADA, was found as an ingredient in breads, bagels, tortillas, hamburger…
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U.S. warns merchants on methods used by Target hackers
from reuters.com: The U.S. government on Thursday provided merchants with information gleaned from its confidential investigation into the massive data breach at Target Corp, in a move aimed at identifying and thwarting similar attacks that may be ongoing. The report titled “Indicators for Network Defenders” brings to light some of the first information gleaned from…
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Report Says Food Stamps Spending Declining
from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com: The money spent on food stamps and the number of people who receive them are declining as the economy has improved, according to a report released Wednesday, even as the program remains a source of contention in congressional negotiations to complete a five-year farm bill. The report, by the Center on Budget and…
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Bread Beats Out Chips As Biggest Salt Source
Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips. That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources of sodium.
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UN Claims World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel as Population Soars
from firstpost.com: The world is running out of time to make sure there is enough food, water and energy to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population and to avoid sending up to 3 billion people into poverty, a UN report warned on Monday. As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly…
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usda says ‘locally grown’ food a $4.8b business
from ap: A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says sales of “local foods,” whether sold direct to consumers at farmers markets or through intermediaries such as grocers or restaurants, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008. That’s a number several times greater than earlier estimates, and the department predicts locally grown foods will generate $7…
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national cyber security bulletin on anonymous
from the hacker news: DHS has analyzed the likelihood of Anonymous attacking industrial control systems (ICS) after the hacktivist group showed such intentions earlier this year. “Assessment of Anonymous Threat to Control Systems” that was drafted by the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) back in September. The document is not classified, but it…
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government pulls back on junk food marketing proposal
from ap: Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam can rest easy. Government officials fine-tuning guidelines for marketing food to children say they won’t push the food industry to get rid of colorful cartoon characters on cereal boxes any time soon. related update: deceptive marketing exposed in new report* download pdf: cereal crimes: how ‘natural’ claims…
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AG Subsidies Fund Junk Food, Report Says
from food safety news: Each year when Americans pay their taxes, part of that money feeds into subsidies for junk food ingredients; and hardly any of it goes toward fresh produce, according to a new report. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Wednesday released “Apples to Twinkies,” a review of agricultural subsidies that…
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united nations report calls for the doubling food production
from voanews: The United Nations warns the world’s farmers will have to double the amount of food they produce to keep up with a rapidly growing population. The U.N.’s latest World Economic and Social Survey, released Tuesday, says global food production will need to jump by 70 to 100 percent by 2050 to feed an…
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5.9m US kids have food allergies
from medical news today: Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30.4% are allergic to several foods, the authors added. Symptoms in a severe…