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The Changing World of Food Traceability
6/5/13 www.foodsafetynews.com
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Lab-Grown Meat Gives Food For Thought
13/8/12 CNN
Demand For Meat Predicted To Double Over Next 40 Years
By Tom Levittfor CNN
(CNN) – A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but now the prospect of lab-grown meat appearing on our supermarket shelves is closer than ever.
Lycored Replaces Red 40 With Kosher and Halal Tomato Dye
7/8/12 israel21c.org
Israel’s LycoRed plant-derived food coloring is the only one of its kind to win the FDA’s green light.
Eat better? Let women do the work…
12/7/12 www.economist.com
FEEDING people isn’t easy. Asia saw food riots in 2008 and 2011 when rice prices spiked, and left many in hunger. Globally food prices grew three times as fast as inflation over the past decade.
Why GM food is dangerous: New report by GM engineers
18/6/12
Press release for immediate release - Earth Open Source
UK: New research reveals alarming levels of salt and fat hidden in Britian’s takeaway pizzas
6/4/12 Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) (behalal.org partner)
CONSUMERS UNKNOWINGLY EATING OVER 10 GRAMS OF SALT IN JUST ONE PIZZA
Nutmeg – haram?
Pink Slime A Non-Issue for Kosher McDonald’s
16/3/12 www.greenprophet.com
By Maurice Picow
Good news! McDonald’s burgers sold in Israel don’t contain pink slime, and never did.
Pink slime, a beef filler ingredient made from from slaughter house beef trimmings is freaking out consumers worldwide.
EU: Salmonella down, Campylobacter up
10/3/12 www.farmersguardian.com
By Alistair Driver
SALMONELLA infection in humans is continuing to fall across the EU, although incidence of Campylobacter infection is on the rise, according to new figures released today.
Burnt bone-free ‘halal sugar’ heads to Middle East
6/2/12 www.reuters.com
By Maha El Dahan
ABU DHABI
(Reuters) – Muslims in the Middle East will soon be able to sweeten their coffee and cakes with halal sugar guaranteed to be free from burnt animal bone powder.
Only gelatin powder from China, Pakistan has Jakim’s halal cert
1/3/12 www.thesundaily.my
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 29, 2012): Only gelatin powder imported from China and Pakistan were issued with the Malaysian Islamic Development Department’s (Jakim) halal certificate.
UAE: Convenient, but healthy too
21/2/12 www.thenational.ae
By Caline Malek
DUBAI // Shoppers around the world are shifting towards more convenient and healthier food, experts say.
Rice products may be source of high arsenic levels: study
17/2/12
(Reuters) – Significant levels of arsenic may be found in some prepared food products listing organic brown rice syrup as a sweetener and main ingredient, including some cereal bars and infant formulas, according to findings from a study published on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia: Need for halal standards for food additives underlined
15/2/12 arabnews.com
By MD Rasooldeen
RIYADH: Participants of the first international conference on halal food under way in Riyadh on Monday stressed the dire need for legal standards to determine the lawfulness food additives.
USA: Blue Pacific Flavors Announces Strategic Investment by Wilmar International Limited
2/2/12
CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Blue Pacific Flavors, a leading developer and manufacturer of natural and organic-compliant fruit flavors, announces a strategic capital investment by Asia’s leading agribusiness group, Wilmar International Limited. Blue Pacific Flavors joins Wilmar International Limited’s group of associated companies.
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