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May 2007
- Coke, Cargill Team Up on New Sweetener
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 31, 07 5:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Coke has teamed up with Cargill to produce and market the all-natural, calorie-free sweetener rebiana, based on a South American herb called stevia. Coke and Cargill plan to market it in 12 countries that have approved stevia as a food additive, while attempting to win regulatory approval in the US and EU. More »
  
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  health • food • fertility • Coca Cola • Cargill
- Trail of Chinese Chemicals Leads to Toothpaste
  
  New York Times | May 22, 07 8:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Dominican Republic is the latest country investigating the possibility that a poisonous chemical from China wound up in a consumer product. This time it's toothpaste that contains the industrial solvent diethylene glycol, which has already turned up in Panama and Australia, the Times reports. The Chinese government has tracked the toothpaste to factories in the Danyang region. More »
  
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  China • health • food • chemicals • contamination • pet food recall • toothpaste • cold medicine • diethylene glycol • glycerin
- Livestock Pigging Out on Junk Food
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 21, 07 3:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The biofuel craze has doubled the price of corn in just a few years, forcing farmers from Pennsylvania to California find alternatives to feed their livestock. What they're coming up with is cookies, candy bars, cheese curls, breakfast cereal and french fries, reports the Wall Street Journal. More »
  
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  food • animal • biofuel • ethanol • farming • corn • cattle • livestock • pigs • farmers markets
- Ban Chinese Ingredients? Easier Said Than Done
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 18, 07 8:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In the wake of the pet-food poisoning scandal, some of the biggest U.S. food manufacturers—Tyson and Mission Foods—have banned Chinese ingredients. But since China is the world's biggest supplier of the flavorings, vitamins and preservatives that are used in virtually all processed foods, the bans may be impossible to uphold, the LA Times observes. More »
  
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  China • health • food • food contamination • pet food recall • Tyson Foods • food poisoning
- Melamine Death Toll Passes 8,000 Pets
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 4, 07 12:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - More than 8,000 deaths of cats and dogs that may be linked to melamine-tainted food have been reported to the FDA in the two months since the pet food recall. The statistics come as the FDA tries to assure Americans that the tainted protein concentrates, also fed to hogs and chickens, aren't a human health threat. More »
  
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  China • health • food • FDA • pets • safety • food contamination • pet food recall • melamine • protein • David Acheson
- Safer Farms Sting Chinese Beekeepers
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 3, 07 5:01 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Stung by recent scandals over tainted food exports, a small group of Chinese beekeepers is trying to sweeten up local honey production. They're throwing out standard practices, like using antibiotics to treat their colonies, and pushing natural options. But the old guard is using violence in its attempts to prevent change and has even physically attacked high-end competitors. More »
  
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  China • food • food contamination • bees • honey
- FDA Names Food Safety Czar After Chicken Scare
  
  Chicago Tribune | May 2, 07 8:16 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The FDA appointed a food safety czar yesterday, as the news that 3 million chickens had been fed melamine-tainted feed exacerbated growing public anxiety about food safety. The FDA said the chickens weren't recalled because most of them would have been sold by now, and the melamine was too diluted to be a health hazard for humans. More »
  
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  health • food • FDA • food contamination • pet food recall • melamine • David Acheson
- Chefs Sing Praises of Sous Vide
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | May 2, 07 8:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - "This is not your mother's boil-in-a-bag," write's Tara Duggan of the San Francisco Chronicle of "sous vide" cooking, a French cooking technique of immersing food in a vacuum-sealed bag. While they don't trumpet it on menus, Bay Area Chefs are smitten with the precision and flavor of sous vide. More »
  
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  food • restaurant • chef • cooking • French cooking
April 2007
- Pharmaceutical Farming Generates Hopes and Fears
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 30, 07 11:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The battle over genetic modification has a new player: "pharming," or pharmaceutical farming, which uses genetically modified plants to mass-produce drug compounds relatively inexpensively. By altering common plants—for instance, tobacco, which can be engineered to produce an HIV drug—researchers say pharming could transform the treatment of illnesses that primarily affect third-world countries. More »
  
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  health • food • medicine • genetics • pharmaceutical companies • plants • genetically modified crops
- Chinese Add Melamine to Animal Feed
  
  New York Times | Apr 30, 07 7:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The compound that tainted pet food and is being blamed for hundreds of pet illnesses and deaths is a commonly used additive in animal feed in China, reports the New York Times . The coal derivative melamine, used in plastics and fertilizers, is nitrogen-rich, which triggers tests for protein content. More »
  
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  China • food • pets • animal cruelty • pet food recall • melamine • protein
- Wanted: Geese Who'll Gorge Themselves
  
  New York Times | Apr 25, 07 3:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In the quest for kinder, gentler fois gras, some producers claim to have succeeded in getting the birds to gorge naturally, fattening up their livers without force-feeding them. A Spanish company says its prize-winning pate was produced by letting the birds roam freely and butchering them right before they would natually migrate. More »
  
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  California • food • animal cruelty • foie gras
- The Bulldog Beats Out The Duck
  
  Restaurant Magazine | Apr 24, 07 9:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For the second straight year, El Bulli of tiny Cala Montjoi, Spain, is No. 1 on UK-based Restaurant Magazine 's annual rankings of the world's top restaurants. The Fat Duck in Maidenhead, England, is second. Of the winners, 37 are in Europe, and 8 are in the US. Australia has 2, South Africa 1, and Brazil 1. More »
  
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  list • food • Spain • restaurant • El Bulli • Fat Duck
- FDA Knew About Food Dangers
  
  Washington Post | Apr 23, 07 8:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The FDA knew for years about problems at the peanut butter plant and spinach farms that led to major disease outbreaks, but took minimal steps to redress them. The agency's food safety arm can't keep up with the explosion in the amount of food it is supposed to regulate, the Post reports, and expects processors to police themselves. More »
  
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  health • food • FDA • safety • food safety • spinach
- Enjoy the Veal, Hold the Guilt
  
  New York Times | Apr 19, 07 3:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Veal is back, says the Times , thanks to humane ranching methods. You're still eating baby cows, of course, but the tiny crates that once confined them—provoking a 20-year-long boycott—are giving way to to open pastures where they hang with mom. Or at least pens where they walk around and mingle with other calves. More »
  
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  food • animal • farming • animal cruelty • meat • cows • veal
- Wal-Mart Chokes On Organic Food
  
  BusinessWeek | Apr 12, 07 1:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Wal-Mart customers aren't buying organic food, and the farmers who stepped up production to supply the giant discounter are the big losers. A year ago Wal-Mart ballyhooed an aggressive push into organic foods, saying they would offer 400 items at low cost. The company placed massive initial orders, farmers say . . . and then largely disappeared. More »
  
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  food • Wal-Mart • consumer • farmer • organic food • organic
- Markets May Lose Farmers
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 11, 07 3:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Farmers' markets have gotten so trendy the they're beginning to annoy their founders: the farmers. Now some of the locally-grown-produce movement's most high-profile members, turned off by the time commitment and the carnival-like atmosphere at many markets, are dropping out of the circuit. More »
  
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  food • farming • sustainable living • farmers markets • locally grown movement
- Ethanol Could Fuel Recession
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 9, 07 1:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Demand for grain for biofuels like ethanol is spurring global food shortages and sending prices soaring—and could trigger a recession, warns the Wall Street Journal. Food prices are already skyrocketing in economies as diverse as India, China, Germany, the U.K., and South Africa. American consumers are likely to see higher prices for everything from milk to cereal to chicken soon. More »
  
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  US economy • environment • recession • food • biofuel • ethanol
- Don't Call Them Chefs
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 4, 07 12:53 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Culinary school degrees are suddenly leading to careers outside the kitchen, reports the LA Times . In our food-obsessed culture, beer sommeliers, cheese affineurs (aging experts) culinary philanthropists and even food consultants for historical films are increasingly finding outlets for their unique talents. Specialists say their jobs beat working in restaurants, "being shouted at by mean chefs." More »
  
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  food • culture • chef • organic food • cooking • organic • cook • culinary school
March 2007
- Red Meat May Harm Sons' Sperm
  
  BBC | Mar 28, 07 8:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Men whose mothers ate a lot of beef during pregnancy have lower sperm counts, finds a study attempting to track the effect of growth hormones fed to cattle. While the specific chemicals weren't identified, sons of pregnant women who ate beef more than seven times a week were three times as likely to have sperm counts below the fertility threshold. More »
  
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  health • food • medicine • pregnancy • fertility • motherhood • growth hormones
- Tracking Toxic Greens Is Growth Industry
  
  Wall Street Journal | Mar 14, 07 7:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Still smarting from this fall's E. coli outbreaks, the produce industry is trying to coax Americans into eating their greens again with high-tech solutions. Companies like Dole and Western Growers are using radio-frequency tags and GPS surveillance to track veggies as they move from farm to grocery store. More »
  
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  food • agriculture • consumer • food contamination • E. coli • contamination • produce

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