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Pork products safe to eat: WHO

New Delhi: Not only cooked pork but even processed pork products like ham, sausage, bacon and salami are safe to eat. So, feel free to gorge on your ham and salami club sandwich or a spicy pork vindaloo.

Publication Date: 
04/05/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Animal Diseases, Pigs, Animal Products, Health Effects, Food Safety, WHO
Agriculture

To Fill Food Safety Gap, Processors Pay Inspectors

Clipboard in hand, Debra Anderson spent three hours one recent sunny morning trooping through a field of romaine lettuce looking for trouble.

Workers harvest romaine lettuce at a Church Brothers field in Huron, Calif. Increasingly, auditors below the federal level are inspecting produce fields and other farms.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2009
Andrew Martin
New York Times (New York)
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Agriculture, Food Safety, Agro-Based Industry, California
Agriculture

Test tube brinjal

India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know?

Publication Date: 
15/04/2009
Savvy Soumya Misra, Kirtiman Awasthi
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Agriculture, Chemical Fertilisers, Pest Control, Vegetables, GM Crops, Health Effects, Pesticides And Toxins, Toxicity Studies, Food Safety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India
Agriculture

Bt brinjal may be released commercially by year-end

Bt brinjal, the country

Publication Date: 
15/04/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, GM Crops, Food Safety, GMOs
Agriculture

 Test tube brinjal

Savvy Soumya Misra And Kirtiman Awasthi India is on the verge of clearing its first genetically modified food crop, Bt brinjal, with several others in the pipeline. Does India need GM crops? Are they safe? How much does the consumer know? On January 14, a meeting happened in room 23 on the sixth floor of the Union environment ministry building in Delhi. On the ministry

Publication Date: 
14/04/2009
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Agriculture, Chemical Fertilisers, Pest Control, Vegetables, GM Crops, Health Effects, Toxicity Studies, Food Safety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India
Agriculture

 Biosafety v global trade

US pitched against EU The US government has backed biotech companies, while European countries have reservations about transgenic crops

Publication Date: 
14/04/2009
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Agriculture, GM Crops, Trade, WTO, Food Safety, GMOs, Imports, Biotechnology, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)
Food Policy

U.S. Food Safety No Longer Improving

After decades of steady progress, the safety of the nation

Publication Date: 
10/04/2009
Gardiner Harris
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Health, Food Safety, United States Of America (US)
Pesticides And Toxins

Japan detects pesticide residues in Indian seafood

George Joseph / Kochi April 9, 2009, 0:09 IST

Indian seafood exports to Japan have hit a bump after the foreign country

Publication Date: 
09/04/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Pesticides, Food Safety, Japan, India
Health

First accurate test for arsenic in soil developed

The potential health impact, called by some an

Publication Date: 
06/04/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Soil Science, Arsenic, Food Safety, United States Of America (US)
Agriculture

TNAU refutes charges relating to Genetically Modified crops

GM maize trial is being conducted with the approval of Govt.

Coimbatore: Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has refuted the charges made by Safe Food Alliance pertaining to field trial of Genetically Modified (GM) crop varieties.
No scientific basis

Publication Date: 
05/04/2009
Hindu (Chennai)
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GM Crops, Food Safety, Tamil Nadu

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