Japan might ease its total ban on us beef. It is considering granting an exemption to us cows aged 20 months or younger from testing for mad cow disease before shipping. The proposal was recently
The use of the two macrolides antibiotics Spiramycin (S) and Tylosin (T) as growth promoters in animal feeding has been recently withdrawn in the European Union due to a concern about the outbreaks of farmacoresistance fenomena as a possible hazard for humans.
Panic waves swept across the island nation when it was learnt that a consignment of contaminated corn from China had found its way into various food products. The corn, which contained more than 100
To produce the food most farmers use chemical pesticides to control weeds, pests and diseases, and to help them meet the appearance standards imposed by supermarkets. Residues from these pesticides may still be in the food when buy it - about half of all fruit and vegetables tested by the Government contain residues.
Health authorities in the Chinese city of Guiyang are recalling nearly 9,000 bags of milk powder. In early June, over 150 children in the southwestern province of Guizhou were poisoned by the
HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue CCPR . It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide residues in food commodities, and comes under the Codex Alimentarius Commission CAC a UN body that sets fo
The Soil Association (sa), an organic farming group, has found that up to 20 million eggs sold in the uk each week could contain traces of a potentially dangerous drug. In tests, nearly one in
