Editor's note: One of our Food Safety News Christmas traditions is to annually recognize those who have been "naughty" and those who have been "nice" – from a strictly food safety perspective, of course. This year, we've opted to ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture, Food
A report from the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general to be released Friday will call for closer scrutiny of doctors' total billing. Elsewhere, ProPublica looks at how ineffective federal oversight is in looking for ...
The Faster Clearance Working Group (FCWG), a towing committee that was formed several years ago to address questionable practices during and after collision cleanups involving commercial vehicles will see a revival in 2014. The Ontario ...
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Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of faulty breast implant maker Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) has been sentenced to four years in jail after a French court found him guilty of fraud-the maximum sentence for that charge. Mas was also fined ...
As one of the most serious, but often most misunderstood, retail loss prevention issues, return fraud costs retailers billions of dollars every year. According to NRF's 2013 Return Fraud Survey completed by loss prevention executives at ...
Tags: Apparel, Textile, Holiday Economy
A food science journal has retracted a French study linking genetically modified foods to tumors and organ failure in rats that went viral on the Internet. Elsevier, the publisher of the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicity, said it was ...
Open GI has teamed up with identity check specialists IIL and GBGroup in a bid to strengthen its latest innovation - Open Client Check. The powerful duo is now providing a range of verification checks for Open Client Check in addition to ...
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The FSA and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), under the multi-agency Global Food Security programme, are inviting research proposals for projects related to understanding the challenges of the food system. Joint funding of up ...
Tags: Food System, Global Food Security
Seoul-based LIG Group is planning to divest all shares of its nonlife insurance division, as part of its strategy to gather the required funds to compensate investors for losses from a financial fraud scandal in 2011. Unveiling its ...
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The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) praises the reintroduction of the Textile Enforcement and Security Act (TESA) in the 113th Congress. Congressmen Tom Graves (R-GA-14) and Mike McIntyre (D-NC-7) reintroduced the bill in ...
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Quackity quack, the quacks are back, and this time they're targeting fish oil supplements, claiming that taking fish oils raises your risk of prostate cancer. Hogwash. This is just another case of pure fearmongering quackery by the ...
For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a ...
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
Considered by many to be one of the healthiest plant-based fats, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) has gained considerable notoriety in recent years for its ability to lower heart disease risk and cholesterol levels, among other benefits. ...
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You thought you were making an informed health choice by using extra-virgin olive oil in place of cheaper, low-quality cooking oils, right? You probably never thought that a tiny, expensive bottle of EVOO might be cut with crap or doctored ...
Tags: Coconut Oil, Red Palm Oil, Food, Health, Olive Oil