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US: New food-safety rules threaten small, organic farms Time:27 May 2010 Posted by 21food.com Willey and his wife, Densesse, own an organic farm just outside of Madera in the central San Joaquin Valley, where they grow lettuce, carrots, cabbage and nearly 50 other hand-harvested ...
Dole recieves additional designation for food safety, quality Time:26 May 2010 Posted by 21food.com Dole Fresh Vegetables, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company, Inc., has announced that all four Dole Fresh Vegetables value-added processing facilities; located in Ohio, Arizona, North ...
US: FDA meets with Salinas farmers over food safety Time:28 Apr 2010 Posted by 21food.com After a series of deadly E. coli outbreaks, the Food and Drug Administration is looking to crack down on the produce industry, but even the FDA admits regulation will not be easy. Four years ...
World Bank to help improve food safety in China Time:18 May 2010 Posted by 21food.com On May 13 the World Bank 's Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of $100 million to the People's Republic of China to support the government's efforts to enhance food safety and meet ...
U.S. Foodservice helps set food safety standard Time:17 May 2010 Posted by 21food.com U.S. Foodservice is continuing its commitment to food safety by hosting a technical working group established to standardize the Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), or, food safety standards, in ...
Canada: Hort crop growers' food safety program funded Time:06 May 2010 Posted by 21food.com A federal program that backs ag commodity groups working on national-level on-farm food safety systems will put up over $750,000 for the Canadian Horticultural Council's work in progress. ...
US: Mushroom hunters want certification to sell morels Time:06 May 2010 Posted by 21food.com A federal food safety rule last year made it nearly impossible to buy wild morel mushrooms. Nothing prevented anyone from going into the woods finding their own and cooking them. But ...
NSF announces 2010 Food Safety Leadership Award winners Time:16 Apr 2010 Posted by 21food.com NSF International, a global leader in food safety solutions, has announced the recipients of the 2010 Food Safety Leadership Awards. The winners will receive their awards at the 2010 ...
China: Safety checks strong for World Expo vegetables Time:28 Apr 2010 Posted by 21food.com Shanghai has strengthened safety checks for vegetables at the World Expo park,the city's largest vegetable supplier said Monday. "Besides the safety examination by vegetable producers, we ...
US: Produce growers discuss new food safety regulations Time:20 Apr 2010 Posted by 21food.com For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is reaching out to farmers for help before writing a new nationwide produce safety standard for growing, harvesting and packing of ...
CTF's online database unpresidented level of food safety transparency Time:17 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com Buyers of California Tomato Farmers (CTF) now have additional reassurance that the tomatoes they purchase are grown in full compliance with stringent food safety regulation...
Further Inventions for a progressive World Time:25 Mar 2010 Posted by 21food.com A "Tamper Evident" Grape Tomato Punnet, embodying Maurice Tabones' 2002, dual-lid invention, won an International PMA food safety award, some 5 + years after Tabone conceived the lid invention. In ...
China: Beijing vendors ripen mangos with unhealthy chemicals Time:01 Apr 2010 Posted by 21food.com The Jinghua Times reported Tuesday that Beijing fruit sellers use lime and liquid chemicals to ripen mangos to earn more money, but their scrupulous methods can harm people's health...
UAE: Vertical farming can help shape up food security Time:16 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com Agriculture in the UAE can reach new heights with a novel system called vertical farming. Speaking to this newspaper, the founder of Aerofarms, a company that promotes this method, Dr ...
US: Food safety report for July released Time:02 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com Food safety report for July released (CFS) released the findings of its food safety report for July. Of the 4,900 food samples tested, 13 samples were found to be unsatisfactory and the overall ...
US (NY): Apricots recalled over undeclared sulfites Time:11 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com Tiger King Inc., a Maspeth, N.Y., firm, is recalling Rehmat brand apricots because they contain high levels of sulfites that were not declared on the label, the U.S. Food and Drug Administra...
India: Ethaphon declared safe for ripening bananas Time:07 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com In what could come as a major relief to banana traders in the state, the Centre has finally cleared the air on which chemicals qualify as `safe' for artificially ripening bananas. With this, ...
Tropical fruit exporters choose Purfresh Transport for higher quality arrivals Time:02 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com Purfresh, a leading provider of clean technologies that purify, protect, and preserve the world's food and water, today announced the successful arrival of papayas...
India: Chili peppers linked to skin cancer Time:07 Sep 2010 Posted by 21food.com A new study has linked capsaicin, a component of chili peppers, to skin cancer. Capsaicin, widely consumed worldwide in foods that contain chili peppers, is also used in topical creams for pain ...
US: Potato processing plant aims for ISO 14001 certification Time:31 Aug 2010 Posted by 21food.com Carberry, Man. hosts a McCain Foods (Canada) potato processing plant and an ultra-modern $20-million wastewater treatment centre, which has helped the operation become the first ...
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