Many phrases reflect how emotions affect the body: Loss makes you feel "heartbroken," you suffer from "butterflies" in the stomach when nervous, and disgusting things make you "sick to your stomach." Now, a new study from Finland suggests ...
It won't all harm you, but some of it might. That's the caveat in the latest Consumer Reports analysis of tests on raw chicken breasts purchased at retailers nationwide. The analysis found that 97 percent of tested chicken breast samples ...
Tags: raw chicken breasts, intestinal bacteria, food safety, E.coli
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed separate proceedings in the Federal Court against egg producers in Western Australia (WA) and New South Wales (NSW) alleging that each of the producer’s use of ...
Tags: egg, food, free-range
Forage testing is a tool to determine current nutritive values as well as non-nutritive values in forages that can be used for marketing hay, formulating rations, and determining potential toxicities or other problems (i.e., prussic acid, ...
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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, ...
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High flying Apple Australia, the company that tried to sell a 3G tablet with a 4G name, has been brought down a notch today, having been forced to make court enforceable undertakings to the ACCC that it will improve its consumer practices ...
Tags: Apple Australia, Consumer Law, ACCC
Australia's consumer watchdog has started legal proceedings against Reebok Australia over misleading claims about its EasyTone shoes. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said today (18 December) it has instituted ...
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U.S. researchers developed a more successful online dating formula that performed best with men with "athletic" body types matching with "fit" females. Kang Zhao, assistant professor of management sciences in the Tippie College of ...
Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. ("Advantage" or the "Corporation") is pleased to provide the following operational update related to our current Phase VI Glacier Development program and an update on our strategic alternatives process. Our Phase VI ...
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Initial logs indicate oil encountered at the Moqueta-12 and Mayalito-1 wells in Colombia; First Shipment of Gran Tierra Energy oil sold through the Port of Esmeraldas, Ecuador Gran Tierra Energy Inc. ("Gran Tierra Energy") (NYSE MKT: GTE) ...
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Supermarkets should drop their “dodgy discounts and misleading multi-buys” and be more open with consumers who are increasingly worried about rising food prices, according to consumer watchdog Which? Slip up in the shops: ...
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IFA President John Bryan said further findings from the DNA-testing Programme on pigmeat carried out by IFA show that consumers continue to be misled and there is a very disappointing level of support for Irish pig producers. From almost ...
Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
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A consumer advocacy group is warning in an updated report that some of the food items shoppers see on store shelves aren't what they seem. The nonprofit U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention has recently released a new update to its Food Fraud ...
Tags: food, fraud, warning, Pomegranate juice, olive oil, seafood
A study just published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has resulted in a flurry of articles proclaiming the uselessness of omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of heart disease. A USA Today headline declared: Fish ...