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Should we regulate the amount of trans fats contained in the food we eat? A Canadian government task force on trans fats is recommending that all vegetable oils and spreadable ...
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By Samuel FromartzPublished by HarcourtApril 2006; $25.00US; 0-15-101130-3
Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have offered a financial refuge from the dot-com ...
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Whether it's a buffet for a large group or a family party, when we are cooking for people we care about, we want to present the perfect meal and to keep them safe. But all too often cooki ...
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The Georgian wine industry, thought to be the world's oldest, is reeling from Russia's blanket ban on exports of its wine to the country, which has traditionally bought 90% of its production.
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One of America's premier cardiac hospitals is locked in a furious battle with McDonald's after its director sought to evict the fast-food outlet from the clinic's sprawling site.
After a lif ...
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Tens of thousands of angry winemakers took to the streets across France yesterday demanding urgent government action to help haul the industry out of its worst crisis in more than a century.
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The EU is to approve the sale of a brand of genetically modified corn for human consumption - ending a six-year ban that was challenged by the US.
Next week's landmark decision by the European ...
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Sweden has approved the growing of the first genetically modified potato - not for human consumption but for production of starch for paper.
The move is likely to prove controversial in the EU, ...
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Consumer groups combating the epidemic of child obesity are increasingly concerned that junk food manufacturers are exploiting the popularity of sport to target children and young people.
Brit ...
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by Sherry Morse
Farmed salmon carry about ten times more cancer-causing chemicals than wild salmon, according to a new study.
The study, conducted at Indiana University, Cornell University ...
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An Indian judge yesterday ordered an independent scientific investigation into allegations that Pepsi drinks sold in India contain dangerously high levels of pesticides.
The judge, Justice BD A ...
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The Indian government has ordered in investigation into why an analysis of 12 brands of cold drinks owned and marketed by Coca-Cola and Pepsi allegedly found that they contained on average more th ...
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After 30 years of campaigning, French gourmets have lost a bitterly fought battle to keep their chocolate pure. This week sees the implementation of a European directive allowing alien ingredients ...
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European food manufacturers will have to come clean about health and nutritional claims they make under far-reaching proposals launched in Brussels yesterday.
Citing the need to combat obesity, ...
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by Amanda Katz
Companies throughout the world that sell meat products to McDonalds will soon be required by the fast-food restaurant chain to discontinue administering to animals antibiotics ...
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Washington is coming under mounting pressure from big business to use the transatlantic trade spat over GM crops as a test case for an all-out assault on EU health and safety rules, environmental ...
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Washington has backed away from threats to bring the European Union before the World Trade Organisation over the EU's refusal to allow the sale of genetically-modified produce.
The US's offi ...
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McDonald's scored a landmark victory when a US judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit that blamed the fast food chain for causing obesity.
The case had been closely watched by the fast food indus ...
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Eight New York children are suing McDonald's, the fast-food giant, accusing it of failing to make clear that a daily diet of Big Macs and chips would leave them obese and, in some cases, diabetic ...
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The troubles facing McDonald's deepened yesterday as the burger chain warned of a profit shortfall and announced the closure of more than 175 outlets.
The company, struggling to rediscover the ...
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