Five of six French aid workers convicted of plotting to kidnap African children for adoption in Europe have been released from prison following their pardon by Chad’s president, CNN affiliate BFM reported.
Argentine farmers seething at export taxes on their crops resumed blockades of rural highways Monday after talks failed to end a 19-day-old strike that has halted grain exports and emptied supermarket shelves of meat.
It is now official. Senator Dean Florez and Senator Abel Maldonado will hold joint hearings on raw milk in California.
Representing the CDFA and the FDA will be the chief of FDA dairy safety, John Sheehan, along with eight other university food safety experts.
Protecting our right to drink raw milk will be a very special Raw [...]
http://psvatimi.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/one-year-later-it-is-now-known-that-the-pet-food-recall-of-2007-had-a-precursor/
It has been one year since the massive pet food recalls of spring 2007. We now know that an outbreak of pet food induced illness and death in Asia in 2004 was also caused by contamination of grains by melamine and cyanuric acid. If only this had been known prior to the 2007 outbreak, the [...]
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/10749
JEFFERSON CITY | Life, liberty and
raw milk?
A couple of press releases regarding proposed milk legislation showed up in the Capitol media mailboxes this morning.
Yep, milk legislation.
Theyd be pretty unremarkable, these press releases, but for some of the arguments they contain.
One urges lawmakers to oppose House Bill 2283 , which would prohibit milk producers from labeling [...]
http://www.newsfood.com/Articolo/International/2008-03/20080331-Listeria-monocytogenes-survivor-amongst-bacteria.asp
A new consumer leaflet of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) provides information on protection against infections with Listeria, the leaflet is available from the BfR press office, as infections with these bacteria, particularly with Listeria monocytogenes, have increased in Germany and Europe in recent years, BfR felt it was necessary to inform consumers [...]
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1206980222.5
The World Trade Organisation on Monday ruled that the European Union, United States and Canada all failed to respect global trade rules in a long-running row over beef treated with growth hormones.
The EU was at fault because its present justifications for an import ban — which were revised after a previous WTO ruling — were [...]
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1206981121.85
Canada’s trade minister on Monday “welcomed” a WTO panel report critical of the EU, US and Canada for ignoring global trade rules in a row over beef treated with growth hormones.
The World Trade Organization earlier confirmed that the European Union’s 1989 ban on imports of Canadian beef from cattle treated with growth hormones is inconsistent [...]
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/0081992
The process of heating milk to kill bacteria has been common for nearly a century, and selling unpasteurized milk for human consumption is currently illegal in Canada and in half the U.S. states. Yet thousands of people in
North America still seek raw milk.
Some say milk in its natural state keeps them healthy; others just crave [...]
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/03/28/ap4826988.html
The World Trade Organization will rule against the European Union next week in a dispute over beef treated with hormones, The Associated Press learned Friday, allowing the U.S. and Canada to keep in place millions of dollars in sanctions on European products.
Brussels argues that the hormones pose a risk to human health. But Canada and [...]