Projected 2013/14 world wheat production is up 0.8 million tons this month to 712.7 million, further raising the historical record. In Australia, 2013/14 production is up 0.5 million tons to 27.0 million this month. The harvest in Australia ...
Tags: Wheat, cereal, Agriculture
Fast-food consumption is often blamed for the epidemic of overweight and obesity among U.S. children. But a new study finds that poor eating the rest of the day is most strongly linked with weight issues. "While reducing fast food is ...
For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report that fast-food ...
Engineers at Microsoft Research are taking on the world of weight management with a bra designed to measure heart and skin activity to gauge stress levels. When the device detects high stress levels, it offers advice via a smartphone app to ...
A common dietary fallacy among many people, resulting from misinformation in media outlets, is fear of fats. If you still harbor lingering anxieties about consuming any type of oil for fear you will have a heart attack, fear no more. A ...
Tags: Fried Foods, Oils
You don't have to consume a lot of business news to see transparency as an issue in the food industry. Whether the topic is pink slime in McDonald's burgers, Whole Foods promising to label products with genetically modified ingredients, or ...
Brad Kelley, the farm boy with 1 million acres Farmer guilty of defending family with shotgun The farmland gold rush may be cooling, but the fields of agriculture remain wide open to investment. Venture capitalists, DIYers, and a new ...
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Canada's federal department Health Canada has concluded that the dietary exposure to the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) through food packaging is not expected to create any health risk to the general population, including newborns and young ...
Tags: Dietary, Food Packaging
Eisai's subsidiary Eisai Laboratorios has submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) for Belviq (lorcaserin HCl) with the Federal Commission for the Protection Against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS) in Mexico. Arena Pharmaceuticals's ...
Tags: Eisai, Mexican Marketing, Belviq
No matter what team you're cheering for, the Super Bowl is a long game, typically four hours not counting the pre- and post-portions. That's twice as long as it takes for bacteria to start multiplying in food that's been left at room ...
Tags: Food Safety Tips, Food Safety, Super Bowl
Bahrain plans to increase its domestic food production from 20% to 60% of total yearly food consumption by 2016. In line with this plan, Bahrain intends to promote the role of small farmers and local business to boost the domestic food ...
Food Standards Australia New Zealand(FSANZ)has released a new report which confirms that Australian children are consuming low levels of food colors. The new report is an update of the 2008 survey of added colors in foods available in ...
Tags: FSANZ, added colors in foods, report