Food Adulteration

EC stops import of US long grain rice

Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its

Publication Date:

29/09/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060930

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Rice, Food Adulteration, Trade, Exports, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, European Union (EU)

Industry

Tightening up

To rein in beverages industry

Publication Date:

29/09/2003

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pesticides, Food Adulteration, Soft Drinks, Lead, Industry, Legislation

Air Pollution

Don't make the world dysfunctional

It is interesting how the coalitions of the willing and the wanting shift in this world. When it comes to negotiations on ecological globalisation conventions from climate change to biodiversity

Publication Date:

14/09/2003

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20030915

pp:

8

Tags:

Environment, Pesticides, Food Adulteration, Globalisation, Ecology

Water Pollution

Follow Up

Two managers of a fats recycling firm have been charged with fraud for Europe's dioxin-in-food scare ( Down To Earth , Vol 8, No 4). "There are two people who have been questioned by the judge, a

Publication Date:

30/07/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Poisoning, Food Adulteration, Health Effects, Europe, Toxins

Health