More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
Tags: honey, food safety, US, pollen
Australia's central role in the formation of the Asian Aerosol Federation (AAF) has prompted the federation to meet in Sydney next year during aerosolsydney2014, the triennial conference of the Aerosol Association of Australia. The Asian ...
Private contractors who worked in Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones over the past two years have high rates of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study finds. Researchers conducted an anonymous online ...
Olam International, a Singapore-based food ingredients supplier, has signed an agreement to divest up to 14.99% of its stake in New Zealand-based Open Country Dairy (OCD) to Talley’s Group for NZ$46.5m. The company currently holds a ...
Glass container maker, O-I New Zealand (O-I NZ), hosted an education program for glass collectors in Palmerston North to maximise the amount of recycled glass (cullet) recovered from households across the city. In December last year, ...
Tags: glass, decoration
Vietnam's economy grew more than analysts estimated as exports climbed,even as banks struggled to meet the government's lending target. Gross domestic product rose 6.04 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier,according to data ...
Microsoft on Friday crowed that more than a million Xbox One consoles were snapped up within 24 hours in 13 countries after hitting shelves for the first time in the morning. The US-based technology titan described it as the biggest ...
Tags: xBox, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Throughout history, people have tried to come up with a way to keep perishable foods fresh. Until the early 19th century, the only options were pickling, salting, drying or smoking these provisions. Although these methods preserved ...
Tags: Canned Food, Canned Meat
A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Tax revenues continue bouncing back from the low levels reported in almost all countries , at the height of the global economic crisis, according to new OECD data in the annual Revenue Statistics publication. The average tax revenue to GDP ...
A New Zealander become the first person in the world to officially own an Xbox One Friday, saying he was immediately retreating to his lounge for five days to play the console. International time zones meant New Zealand was the first ...
Tags: xBox, Consumer Electronics
E-cigarette as relative effective way of quitting smoking has obtained follower. As a complicated quit-smoking product, ecigarette gains increasing research support. Western countries' Ministry of Public Health declared that current ...
Tags: E-Cigarette, E Cigarette, Cigarette
New Zealand-based dairy giant Fonterra and Swiss food major Nestle have opened a new dairy distribution facility in Araras, Brazil, with an investment of NZ$45m. The facility was set up through the companies' South American joint venture ...
Tags: Fonterra, Nestle, Dairy Distribution
Gilead Sciences has received notice of compliance from Health Canada for its once-daily oral nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor Sovaldi or sofosbuvir 400mg tablets for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C or CHC infection. Sovaldi is ...
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo Mobile is to challenge the sale of HTC Butterfly from HTC by promoting globally its 5-inch model, the Oppo Find 5, according to industry sources. The Oppo Find 5, launched in Beijing recently, is on par ...
Tags: OPPO, HTC Butterfly, Smartphone, China-Based Vendor