Food

August 2, 2009

Filed under: xBloglines — Tags: atrax, backhoe, qelk — tgk1946 @ 10:29 am

SD Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter And Umami: Variants Of ‘Umami’ Taste Receptor Contribute To Our Individualized Flavor Worlds
Oz Food labelling decision shelved
WM Guest Blogger Roy E. Costa – “A Sanitary Survey of Nestlé’s… Quick”
Oz Poultry Is No. 1 Source of Outbreaks, According to C.D.C. Report
Nyt Food Companies Try, but Can’t Guarantee Safety
Oz Wet and dry on wild idea
SD Turmeric: India’s ‘Holy Powder’ Finally Reveals Its Centuries-old Secret
Npr A Food Critic Learns To Eat His Vegetables
BM Easter Egg Hunt – Staphylococcal Food Poisoning – A Great Way to Ruin Your Easter
Nyt Investigators Find Source of Many Foods Untraceable
BM United States Food Safety Legislation 2009 – Quite a lot to “chew” on!
Marler MRSA – methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – The risk to our food supply and to us.
Age Coke’s no joke, says cancer research report
NW Food and health in a failing economy
RN Food for the future
Oz Recipe for disaster
Nyt Peanut Case Shows Holes in Safety Net
development of A Future for Food the advocacy paper PHAA

NTI nissen Drug Safety Watchdog Sees Al-Qaeda Risk to U.S. Food, Drug Imports
SD New Portable Device Detects Salmonella In Under An Hour
Nyt List of Tainted Peanut Butter Items Points to Complexity of Food Production
Smh Food body throws regulation out with the lolly water
Oz Mandatory folic acid
Folic acid in bread
The Gang-gang Cockatoo Tue 20 Jan 09 (11:18am)

The natural source of folate is green leafy plants. A good diet will provide adequate folate. So, what about those women who refuse to eat the right foods, are they unfit to be parents?
Is the food fortification industry involved with educational efforts designed to improve attitudes toward natural foods?

The Gang-gang Cockatoo Tue 20 Jan 09 (05:33pm)

Have a look at the recall list resulting from one point source contamination (Salmonella) spreading out through the industrialised food network.
Who is monitoring the quality of the folate being added to products? Does any of it come from factories in Asia?

Apo Binns Selecting interventions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption: from policy to action, a planning framework case study in Western Australia
Nyt The Feed – Looking to Obama to Bring Logic to Food Safety …
Oz Facts on deadly food bugs withheld
FoodsScienceAust Salmonella in food containing raw or undercooked eggs August 2008
http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/

Abc China bans 17 harmful substances in food
SD Sweetened Beverage Consumption Increases Dramatically In U.S.
Itw To limit fish eating or not: FDA and EPA at odds
SD Fructose Metabolism More Complicated Than Was Thought
Smh No gag on junk food ads: Senate
Oz turkey Palin as the Coen Brothers might see it
SD Kids Not Eating Their Five Fruits Or Vegetables A Day, UK Study Shows
Itw Industrial chickens missing genes, according to pioneer study
Itw csiro Folate helps screen for Alzheimers disease
Oz No gags in new rules for CSIRO
SA Feature: Human diet gives pathogens something to eat
Abc China food, drug inspection transparency improving: FDA
Smh.Little shops full of horrors but supermarkets buck trend
Itw Guess what pops up in MacCornald’s, Corner King fast foods?
WM Chinese Food Products and the Law – A Trial Lawyer in China
Itw All-you-can-eat buffets separate overweight from normal weight people
Nyt Well: Money Is Tight, and Junk Food Beckons
WM Pros and Cons of Commercial Irradiation of Fresh Iceberg Lettuce and Fresh Spinach: A Literature Review – Part III. Food Quality.
Itw U.S. companies to adopt Smart Choices Program for foods
SD New Promising Obesity Drug May Have Huge Potential
Nyt Farmer in Chief
Wm E. coli Outbreak Linked to Vermont Slaughterhouse
SD Fructose — Found In High-fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar — Sets Table For Weight Gain Without Warning
Wm Tri-tip E. coli Loophole Needs to Change
.. Pros and Cons of Commercial Irradiation of Fresh Iceberg Lettuce and Fresh Spinach: A Literature Review
SD Animals Farmed For Meat Are The No. 1 Source Of Food Poisoning Bug, Study Shows
SD How Salmonella Bacteria Contaminate Salad Leaves
Olo Opinion: Australia needs to ride the GM wave

WM USDA Does a “No Brainer”
Oz Watchdog slammed over junk food ads
Smh Junk food ads to stay: regulator
RN GM labelling

Sd Parents Shape Whether Their Children Learn To Eat Fruits And Vegetables

Nyt Recall Leads Whole Foods to a Change
Psd The war on obesity – in Brazil
Sd Spice-Rack Favorites Battle E. Coli And Other Foodborne Pathogens
Wm Food Safety Advocate William Marler Calls for Public Meat Inspection Records

SD Limiting Fructose May Boost Weight Loss, Researcher Reports

Wm E. coli O157:H7 is a powerful and deadly bacterium
SD Disease-detecting Lab In The Palm Of Your Hand
Wm Nebraska Beef Ltd., – You are being watched.
Nyt E. Coli Illnesses Prompt Beef Recall
Age Good egg guide on wish-list
SD Preparation Of Potatoes Can Have Big Impact On Mineral Content
Age horti CSIRO laboratory closure not so clever, says top scientist
Olo Ignoring the food crisis
SA Puberty timing linked to mum’s diet
.. Australian ads target kids more freely

SD Heightened Sense Of Taste Can Promote Weight Loss
Olo tk Food rethink
Nyt Krugman: Bad Cow Disease

Wm the end of food paul roberts A Must Read
Olo Agriculture – how much food for a thought?
Smh Salmonella scare: McDonald’s dumps tomatoes
SA Opinion: Is CSIRO pulling the plug on horticulture?
SD Healthy Intestinal Bacteria Found Within Chicken Eggs
Oz Rich pickings for the slender
SD tempe New Vegetarian Food With Several Health Benefits
Itw Half of Americans don’t know the facts of fats
SD campy cipro Common Foodborne Pathogen In Poultry Finds Resistance To Antibiotic Used By Humans
Age Fears over state’s food security

Wm Chinese Fish Imports Raise Concerns
Wp Court: Tyson Must Stop Ads chicken eggs antibiotics

Age Food-cost surges lead to poor diets

Nyt Personal Health: Potential for Harm in Dietary Supplements
Apo Issues and Crisis Management in the Food Industry conference and workshops
Age CSIRO’s best-selling diet ‘ignores cancer concerns’

SD Foodborne Outbreaks From Leafy Greens On Rise
Age It’s a simple equation, Berg: pester equals power
SA High GI diet increases disease risk
SA Unhealthy ads need monitoring
WM The Raw Economics Driving the Use of Downers
WM Should ALL “Downers” be banned from the food supply?
BH “Do Your Homework”

14/3/08 15 . Children’s Hospital: do you really want fries with that? Crikey health correspondent Melissa Sweet writes: The Victorian Government, like many others, is keen to instruct its citizens to change their eating habits in order to stop the weight gain which is going to cost health services so dearly in the future. But its own actions are anything but consistent. I refer to what many public health experts describe as a “running sore” — the location of a McDonald’s outlet at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. As the British Medical Journal will report tomorrow, public health and cancer groups say it’s time to fix the sore — to end the association when the hospital moves to a new campus in 2011, a moment when, by coincidence, the current lease with McDonald’s is also due to expire. They’re urging the Victorian Government to intervene rather leaving the decision up to the hospital board. The Public Health Association of Australia’s president, Professor Mike Daube, says it is “grotesque” for a children’s hospital to be promoting junk food. The Cancer Council Australia has also thrown its weight behind the campaign to end the association, which spokesman Terry Slevin says is sending “the wrong signal”. And Professor Boyd Swinburn, professor of Population Health at Deakin University, says the hospital “should not be a party to promoting the world’s biggest icon brand of junk food”. While RCH staff have mixed views (it’s not only patients and visitors who queue for the fries and burgers), Professor Mike South, one of the hospital’s senior paediatricians, says the current arrangement is sending an unhealthy message to the community. “If Victorian public schools have banned the serving of fast food at schools, then the Children’s Hospital should be able to take the lead as well,” he said. Hospital management is not commenting publicly, and the Victorian Department of Human Services is playing its cards close, saying that no decision has yet been made. Health departments are fond of stressing the role of other departments, such as transport and urban planning, in tackling obesity. But if a health department can’t get its own house in order, then their admonitions to others — whether the general public or within government — just don’t carry the same weight.

Melissa Sweet is the author of The Big Fat Conspiracy: How to Protect Your Family’s Health (ABC Books, 2007)

Abc Families pay a high price for healthy food: Cancer Council
Td Huge Recall of Beef Is Linked to Schools
Nyt pollan You Are More Than What You Eat
Oz Nelson urges wider ACCC probe

Big fat conspiracy :: preventing childhood obesity. Sweet, M.

Nyt The World: Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

Wm Mao Would Be Proud
Nyt The Food Chain: A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories

SD New High Protein Rice Strain Developed
Oz Parents need healthy lunchbox tuition
Smh Juice alert
.. Michael Pollan goes ‘In Defense of Food’
SD Culinary Shocker: Cooking Can Preserve, Boost Nutrient Content Of Vegetables
Smh Salmonella scare linked to raw eggs

Nyt System to Track Cloned Animals Is Planned

Econ Drug-resistant infections

Nyt pollan The Way We Live Now: Our Decrepit Food Factories
WM E. coli’s Comeback: What’s up with that?
Nyt Meat Processors Look for Ways to Keep Ground Beef Safe
Wm Increased Ethanol Production Part of E. coli “Uptick?”
Nyt A Growing Debate Over Folic Acid in Flour
SD Scientists Re-Examine Soy Bean Diversity
.. Crimson Rocket Peach Making Its Way To Market
.. Garbanzos, Lentils, Dry Peas And Beans Make Crunchy, Healthful Snacks
Smh Seven hit by rare gastro infection
Wm Egg Safety – Pasteurization
Age Brumby faces caucus revolt over GM crops
CP Undercover at a Turkey Slaughtering Plant
.. The Last Days of Mexican Corn
Marler Food Poisoning For Bloggers
Marler “Safer Salads –
SD Folic Acid Linked To Increased Cancer Rate, Historical Review Suggests
Abc Pregnant women unaware of listeria risk: survey