Abstract

At a recent meeting, the only item on the agenda was to determine what to print on next year’s ear tags. What made the meeting exciting were the new tags the printing was going on.

Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global study of salmon production systems.

Iodine and iron have both been shown to benefit children’s development by European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientists under article 14 of the European Union nutrition and health claims regulation.

Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that it might be more cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable to use corn stover for generating an energy-rich oil called bio-oil and for making biochar to enrich soils and sequester carb

In October 2003, inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration went to a small plant in Chicago because the firm's flour tortillas were suspected of causing outbreaks of vomiting and diarrhea among schoolchildren. The inspectors found 12 violations of safe practices at Del Rey Tortilleria Inc. In an ideal world, that would have been the end of it.

PART II: On the pending food safety legislation, the impact on small farmers, and the agency's capacity to inspect the food supply: A conversation with Dr. David Acheson, former Associate Commissioner of Foods at the FDA.

Five people from the same family in Kasisi have died after eating food that was suspected to have been poisoned. The five were rushed to University Teaching Hospital (UTH) where they later died. UTH public relations manager Pauline Mbangweta said yesterday that a woman and her four children died after eating maize suspected to have been sprayed with doom.

PORTLAND -- Declaring the federal government's newest salmon recovery plan "a good piece of work," U.S. District Court Judge James Redden on Monday appeared eager to resolve a 15-year legal battle about how to restore threatened and endangered fish runs in the Columbia River basin.