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General Mills Completes Sale Of Venezuelan Business To Lengfeld
Mar 22, 2016US-based food company General Mills has completed the sale of its Venezuela business to private investor Lengfeld, exiting from the country. The sale of the Venezuelan business includes brands such as Underwood, Rico Jam and ...
Tags: General Mills, Venezuela business, Lengfeld
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US Senate Stalls GMO Labeling Bill
Mar 18, 2016The US Senate has stalled a bill which would have eliminated state by state laws requiring food manufacturers to label products made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ahead of Vermont’s law coming into effect from July. ...
Tags: US Senate, GMO, Food manufactures, Label products
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FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Salmon
Nov 24, 2015The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a consumer update that a brand of genetically engineered (GE) salmon is indeed safe for sale and for consumption by humans. After an “exhaustive and rigorous scientific” review, ...
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Patanjali Atta Noodles Under Indian Food Regulator's Scanner for Launching Without Approval
Nov 24, 2015Indian food regulator Food Safety and Regulatory Authority of India (FSSAI) has stated that the recently-launched Patanjali Atta Noodles by yoga guru Ramdev did not carry the regulator’s approval. However, the FSSAI chairperson ...
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EU Contemplates Simplifying Import Approval Process
Apr 10, 2015The EU plans to empower member states to grant admission to controversial genetically modified foods and animal feed by simplifying the import approval process. The move is expected to grant more freedom to enable entry of GM products ...
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Chinese Lawmakers Are in The Process of Considering a Proposed Revision to Food Safety Law
Dec 24, 2014Chinese lawmakers are in the process of considering a proposed revision to the country’s Food Safety Law which would include the mandatory labelling of all goods containing Genetically Modified (GM) organisms. The central ...
Tags: GM crops, labelling procedure, Agriculture
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Here Are Some of The Latest Health and Medical News Developments,Compiled by The Editors
Jan 24, 2014Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: States Consider Labels for Genetically Modified Foods A number of states are considering laws requiring labels on food products that ...
Tags: FDA, Malta Goya, Health, AP Report
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Linking Genetically Modified Foods to Tumors and Organ Failure in Rats That Went Viral
Dec 2, 2013A 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 ...
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Monsanto Plans to Grow New Types of Genetically Modified Crops in The European Union
Jul 19, 2013United States agrochemicals firm Monsanto has terminated its plans to grow new types of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union over lack of prospects for cultivation in the region. The company said that it will drop all the ...
Tags: Monsanto, genetically modified
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Whole Foods Market Is Supporting The 'yes on 522' Campaign
May 2, 2013Supermarket chain Whole Foods Market is supporting the ‘Yes on 522’ campaign in its push toward full genetically modified foods (GMO) transparency with a grassroots education effort in Washington called, ‘Will Vote for ...
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A Decades-Long Push Received a Significant Boost Wednesday
Apr 27, 2013A decades-long push to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients in the United States received a significant boost Wednesday [Apr. 24, 2013], when bipartisan bills on the issue were simultaneously proposed ...
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Whole Foods Market Has Announced Its Support for The 'Yes on 522' Campaign
Apr 27, 2013Whole Foods Market has announced its support for the ‘Yes on 522’ campaign in its push toward full genetically modified foods (GMO) transparency with a grassroots education effort in Washington called, ‘Will Vote for ...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Foods Labeling
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The Peptide Was Found to Be Active in The Small Intestine But Not in The Blood
Mar 21, 2013Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have developed genetically engineered tomatoes that can produce a peptide that mimics the actions of good cholesterol when consumed. The tomatoes were genetically engineered ...
Tags: engineered tomatoes, tomatoes, Food
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Products in Its US and Canadian Stores Must Be Labeled to Indicate The Presence of GMOs
Mar 12, 2013Grocery chain Whole Foods Market has announced that all products in its US and Canadian stores must be labeled to indicate the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), by 2018. Whole Foods Market co-CEO Walter Robb said the ...
Tags: label, mandatory labeling, label products
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A Majority of Consumers Interviewed by The UK FSA Confess to Having Little Knowledge
Jan 10, 2013A majority of consumers interviewed by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) confess to having little knowledge of genetically modified foods, but would still support labelling on products. Almost nine in every ten of the consumers ...
Tags: GM food, Food Standards, genetically modified foods, foods
