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Food safety failures
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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NSW routinely breach food safety laws, with some councils recording rates more than twice that figure, according to the first detailed food-safety data ever released...The data reveals that the frequency of breaches of laws covering rodent infestation,...
Tags: food safety, NSW
Government has sympathy for bakers (Newstalk ZB)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 4 months ago
Credibility Government has sympathy for bakers Wednesday July 8, 02:53 PM The Government says it sympathises with the New Zealand Association of Bakers' frustration over mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid. Minister of Food Safety Kate Wilkinson acknowledges...
Tags: Hon Kate Wilkinson, folic acid, food safety, New Zealand-Australia, safety minister, mass medication, minister kate
Vice premier departs for Japan talks
Beijing :: China | 5 months ago
Credibility Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan left Beijing Saturday morning for Tokyo to attend the second China-Japan high-level economic dialogue, scheduled for June 7. Wang and Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone will co-chair the dialogue. Senior officials...
Tags: vice premier, Wang Qishan, China-Japan, Sino-Japan, premier wang, Tokyo, food safety
Sydney Morning Herald: 10 per cent fail inspections
Lisbon Falls :: ME :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility One in 10 restaurants and food businesses fail food safety inspections: report One in 10 restaurants and food businesses have failed food safety inspections by NSW councils in the past six months, while well over half of all premises inspected were found...
Tags: food safety, failed food, NSW Food Authority, safety inspections, food businesses
New suit filed in delta smelt dispute
Fresno :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility A conservative legal organization waded into the delta smelt controversy Thursday, claiming in a lawsuit that the federal government has no constitutional authority to oversee the endangered fish...District Court in Fresno by the Pacific Legal Foundation...
Tags: San Joaquin Valley, food safety
Congresswoman: New FDA looks much like old model
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility A key lawmaker says she doubts the Food and Drug Administration can make good on its promise to improve food safety. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is pressing the agency's new acting commissioner for a specific plan that identifies foods most at risk and develops...
Tags: food safety
FDA nominee pledges to revamp food safety
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama 's pick to oversee food and drug safety pledged on Thursday to revamp protection of the nation's food supply to help prevent future disease outbreaks. Dr. Margaret Hamburg , a bioterrorism expert who once served as New York City...
Tags: Barack Obama, president barack, food safety, Food and Drug Administration, FDA
New independent food inspection agency needed: Expert
Ottawa :: Canada | 6 months ago
Credibility But Charlebois also cautioned the lawmakers sitting on the special panel investigating the state of food safety in Canada, convened after last summer's deadly listeriosis outbreak traced to contaminated meat, about the "overregulation syndrome" that has...
Tags: Canada, food safety
Alberta pigs infected with Swine Flu
Cairo :: Egypt | 7 months ago
Credibility Humans and pigs can pass flu strains back and forth through direct close contact, such as on pig farms. When a swine flu virus affects a human, there's also a risk the animal flu can mutate, then spread directly between people. That's how the new swine...
Tags: Canada, Alberta, swine flu, Cairo, The World Health Organization, China, Egyptian, garbage collectors, pig farmers, food safety
Food exports to be passed by quality watchdog
Shanghai :: China | 7 months ago
Credibility Foreign food producers who want to sell their products to China might have to register with China's inspection and quarantine authorities every four years, according to a new draft rule released yesterday to solicit public opinion...The draft implementation...
Tags: food safety, China
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