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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]