Pesticides in veggies: A government of India survey found high levels of pesticides in fruits and vegetables. Fourteen per cent of the samples collected from across the country had traces of pesticide residues. Four per cent had residues beyond the permissible limit. Pesticide residues were also found in cereals, pulses, marine and milk products. Landfills harbour bird flu: Poultry
Mercury emissions are poisoning seafood amongst the chemicals that poison fish, methyl mercury is one. An environmental pollutant, it makes its way into the ocean where it enters the food chain and is consumed by fish which are eaten by humans. In the US, 40 per cent of all human exposure to mercury is from tuna harvested in the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of which was the study
Zimbabwe is on the brink of having 100,000 infections of cholera, a preventable disease that has already killed 4,283 people there and remains a serious threat, the Zimbabwean Red Cross and its partners said on Tuesday.
The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTCQ) has said three popular brands of edible oil -Dhara, Family and Shakti have been found substandard and unfit for consumption.
A US bill undermines small farms, even gardening the Green Party of the US has urged the government to amend the food safety bill to protect small-scale farms and organic farming. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 was introduced in the US House of Agriculture in February. It is pending with the House Committee on Agriculture. Following a recent wave of contaminated food
Every few weeks, it seems, deadly germs turn up in the food supply.
Heather Why brew, a college student in Washington State, became gravely ill after eating a salad in her school cafeteria. Carl Ours, of Ohio, was temporarily paralyzed after eating chili dogs and drinking beer. Mari Tardiff, of California, spent three months on life support after she drank unpasteurized milk.
