Milk powder produced in New Zealand by Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter has been found to be contaminated with botulism causing bacteria. The contamination was confirmed by Fonterra to have come from 3 batches of their whey protein concentrate.
Anyone who has had a run in with Campylobacter can tell you it’s not a pleasant experience, and I am an anyone.
Farmers beware! 5 out of 13 key insect species have become immune to Bt, the built-in pesticide expressed by GM corn and cotton. That is the startling message from a paper published in Nature reported last week in the New Scientist magazine (June 15th 2013, Page 8-9).
Thanks to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) of the UK, you can. They are currently calling for views on phytosterol esters, a compound found in low levels in vegetable oil that has been shown to reduce LDL (the bad) cholesterol. This is because Unilever have made an application for their…
If you want to reach a plump old age with good “functionality” then eating a classic western diet made up of foods that are fried and sweet, processed and red meat, refined grains, and high-fat dairy products is not the way to do it.
The opinion is in and recommendations have been made. Here are the basics: There are assays available (or in the pipeline) for chemicals that interfere with pathways for oestrogen, androgen, thyroid, or steroidogenesis in fish and mammals, but these are seriously lacking for birds and amphibians. This should be addressed….
Phthalates have many uses, but the main use is as an additive to plastics to make them more flexible. However, as the phthalates are not bound to the plastic, they are released at an accelerating rate as the plastic breaks down. We are exposed to phthalates in the environment, and…
Just one day before a ban on soft drinks larger than 473ml (or 16 oz for the non-metric minded) was due to come into play in New York, a judge has ruled the proposed ban to be “arbitrary and capricious”.
There were many very concerning papers in the last few years about endocrine disruptors and obesity. You may say, people are not getting as much exercise as they used too, or are eating more unhealthy, and while these points are accepted the general consensus is that diet and a more…
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organochlorine pesticide, first discovered in 1874, that became a major pesticide during World War II after it was found to have pesticidal properties.
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