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NEWS ABOUT: imported food

imported food stories: 7 news summaries

Big Food Battles Big Sugar
to Cut Import Prices

Food firms warn of shortages if cheap foreign sugar blocked

Aug 13, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - America could "virtually run out of sugar" if more cheap foreign imports aren't allowed in, some of the nation's biggest food companies warned Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack in a recent letter. The firms—which pay around twice the world market price for sugar because of tariffs to protect... More »

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imports • tariffs • sugar • imported food • food industry

INVESTIGATION

 Honey Packers Fail to 
 Report Tainted Imports 

Companies often simply send honey back to importer

Jan 29, 09 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - US honey packers often don’t tell authorities about imports contaminated with banned antibiotics or other chemicals, and instead simply send the products back, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports after a lengthy investigation. Importers can then get the tainted honey into the American market through another packer, as two Chicago businessmen... More »

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food contamination • antibiotics • food safety • honey • imported food • Food and Drug Administration • Chinese exports

Mexico Halts Shipments From Top US Meat Plants

Move is seen as retaliation for country-of-origin labeling initiative

Dec 26, 08 5:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Mexico has temporarily banned meat from 30 US plants run by some of the largest American meat companies, Reuters reports. The Mexican government says violations in standards of packaging, labeling, and transport conditions occasioned the ban, but many US analysts suspect Mexico is registering its dissatisfaction with an American law... More »

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Mexico • United States • meat • imports • exports • imported food • meat and poultry • consumers • Country-of-Origin Labeling

Feds Mandate Nation-of-Origin Labels for Meat, Produce

But new law covers as little as possible: critics

Sep 14, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Grocery shoppers will soon be able to tell their Argentine steak from their Midwest chicken at a glance, as a new federal law mandating nation-of-origin labels kicks in Sept. 30. Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) will cover everything from fruit and nuts to beef, lamb, and chicken, reports the Chicago ... More »

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food • law • meat • produce • label • beef recall • imported food • country of origin

 US, S. Korea Reach Beef Deal 

Imported US meat must come from cattle younger than 30 months

Jun 21, 08 10:46 AM CDT
(AP) - All US beef imported into South Korea will come from cattle less than 30 months old, officials said today, in a deal made to placate South Korean protesters worried about mad cow disease. Nonetheless, thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Seoul, calling for a complete renegotiation of an... More »

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South Korea • business • beef • US exports • imported food • beef industry • food industry

 Prized Cheese in Italy at Risk 

Toxins found in mozzarella after years of illegal trash dumping

Mar 27, 08 7:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - More consumers are turning up their noses at Italy’s prized buffalo mozzarella, and not over its smell, the New York Times reports. Toxins have been found in samples of the delicacy, likely caused by illegal dumping of garbage around Naples. Sales are down 40%, and farmers and restaurateurs fear... More »

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food contamination • Italy • garbage • Naples • cuisine • mozzarella • imported food • dioxin

China Bristles
at US' Olympic Food Snub

Beijing insists meat
is safe, but Americans will brown-bag it

Feb 22, 08 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - China says it's a "pity" that US athletes won't be joining their international counterparts at dinner tables during the Olympics this summer over worries about the safety of food and water. American athletes will ship in their own meat and eat at their own training center, and China is... More »

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China • steroids • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • food safety • US Olympic Committee • chicken • imported food • contaminated water

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