Posts Tagged ‘food’
Food Standards Agency – Food Fraud Advisory Unit launched
Food fraud is committed when food is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer. Although there are many kinds of food fraud the two main types are:
* the sale of food that is unfit and potentially harmful, such as:
o recycling of animal by-products back into the food chain
o packing and selling of beef and poultry with an unknown origin
o knowingly selling goods that are past their use by date
* the deliberate misdescription of food, while not necessarily unsafe, deceives the consumer as to the nature of the product, such as:
o products substituted with a cheaper alternative, for example, farmed salmon sold as wild, and Basmati rice adulterated with cheaper varities
o making false statements about the source of ingredients, i.e. their geographic, plant or animal origin
via Food Standards Agency – Food Fraud Advisory Unit launched.
United Nations: Food and Agriculture Document Repository
Book Review: Stuffed and Straved
What Michael Pollan Hasn’t Told You About Food
Patel’s new book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System makes visible the people behind the abstraction and reveals a global food system that, with our complicity, continues to alienate farmers and consumers alike, all while fattening the pocketbooks of a few middlemen.To read Patel is to understand the logic behind the sweets company, Nestle, acquiring the weight loss magnate Jenny Craig or why WalMart is free to raise prices in areas where they have already killed off the competition. In the language of markets, these problems are not “self-correcting.” Only the profound failure of the prevailing metaphor of the Invisible Hand hampers us from seeing what Patel has spent years of research making visible. In an interview with AlterNet, Patel explains how, “the way we choose food today comes from distinctly abnormal roots,” how these roots connect us to farmers and consumers around the world, and why we should get angry, not feel guilty.
Article: Plenty of food for paranoia – Montreal Gazette
Plenty of food for paranoia, fired whistleblower says
Plenty of food for paranoia, fired whistleblower says
Former Health Canada scientist launches book
CHARLIE FIDELMAN, The Gazette
Published: Tuesday, November 18Some might dismiss Shiv Chopra as paranoid for seeing carcinogens in every mouthful.
As the Health Canada whistleblower whose testimony led to the agency’s banning bovine growth hormone as an additive to increase milk yields in cows, Chopra puts little faith in regulatory bodies and food safety standards.
“There’s the tainted blood inquiry, mad cow disease, silicone breast implants … there’s a whole series of things that government says it knows better,” said Chopra, who will be in Montreal tonight to launch his book, Corrupt to the Core: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower.
Organic Consumers Association – Canada
About Us: Organic Consumers Association
Organic Consumers Association (OCA)The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, children’s health, corporate accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability and other key topics.
