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NEWS ABOUT: food supply

food supply stories: 8 news summaries

 US Food Safety 
 Not Improving: Feds 

CDC shows plateau in food sickenings over the last three years

Apr 9, 09 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The safety of the US food supply from disease or contamination has not significantly improved in recent years, the New York Times reports today. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that occurrences of major illnesses from tainted food have held steady for the past 3... More »

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disease • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • United States • public health • food safety • salmonella • food supply

Haitians Turn to Mud Cakes to Fill Empty Bellies

Food price hikes push everything but dirt out of reach for Haiti's poor

Jul 29, 08 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Impoverished Haitians have been reduced to living off mud cakes, the Guardian reports. The cakes of clay and water—long eaten by poor pregnant women seeking calcium—are increasingly the only food many families can afford. The global fuel and food crisis has hit Haiti, and half the population is... More »

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hunger • Haiti • starvation • Caribbean • food shortage • malnutrition • food supply

US Predicts Bumper Crops
Will Ease Food Crisis

Record-breaking grain harvests worldwide expected to bring prices back down

May 10, 08 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Farmers worldwide will reap record-breaking harvests of wheat and rice this year, the US projects, and the news is expected to ease some of the worldwide concern about food prices. The USDA says good weather will bring bumper crops that will replenish depleted stocks, Reuters reports. Analysts warned, however, that... More »

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agriculture • farming • USDA • wheat • crops • wheat prices • food security • global food market • food supply • rice prices

 Bush: $770M 
 Needed For Food Aid 

Congress must approve money, part of a larger Iraq funding measure

May 1, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amid rising food prices and overtaxed international reserves, President Bush proposed a new $770 million aid package today, Reuters reports. The money is part of a supplemental $70 billion measure that also includes Iraq war funding and would require a vote in Congress. More »

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Congress • press conference • food prices • food shortage • food supply • food aid • George W. Bush

 Another Key Shortage: Fertilizer 

Prices skyrocket, ingredients scarce as growing population demands more food

Apr 30, 08 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the less touted factors behind the global food crisis is a shortage in chemical fertilizer, which has helped boost crop yields dramatically and particularly benefited the developing world. But while growing demand is unlikely to be met for many years, the environmental impact of producing and using chemical... More »

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farming • corn • crops • fertilizer • rice • developing countries • food prices • food supply

Costco Sees High Demand
for Basics Rice, Flour

CEO attributes run to customer uncertainty over food supplies

Apr 22, 08 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Costco is seeing unusually high demand for basics such as rice and flour, Reuters reports, a development the warehouse giant attributes to customer uncertainty over global food shortages. The company, which sells to individual shoppers as well as restaurants, has put limits in place for those items at some stores.... More »

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Costco • food prices • food supply • flour • rice prices

Humble Spud Could Solve Food Crisis

International
'Year of the Potato' to highlight tuber's virtues

Apr 15, 08 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sharp hikes in the prices of staples like wheat and rice are sending shockwaves around the world and convincing governments to rediscover the virtues of the potato, Reuters reports. Spuds are nutritious, will grow just about anywhere, and they yield up to four times more food per acre than other... More »

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food • farming • Peru • crops • food prices • food shortage • food supply • potato

FDA Plans to Open Outpost
in China

Inspectors could block contaminated food from being exported to US

Feb 6, 08 6:00 AM CST
(Newser) - America's food imports from China are rising and the Food and Drug Administration is planning to start exporting American inspectors to protect the US food supply, Reuters reports. FDA officials hope to open a China office to help them raise food safety standards and to make it easier to act... More »

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China • FDA • imports • food safety • China food exports • food supply

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