Olive-pomace products withdrawn
The UK Food Standards Agency has acted to ensure that certain Greek olive-pomace oil products with unacceptably high levels of potentially cancer-causing chemicals have been removed from sale.
Archives for September 30, 2001
US terrorist attack touches Thai food exports
Exporters to the U.S. market should pay particular attention to instant food products, such as frozen dishes that can be cooked by microwave, according to the Thai Farmers Research Center (TFRC), The Nation reports this week.
Total ban on MBM in Japan
The Japanese government is to temporarily place a total ban on the distribution of imported and domestically produced meat and bone meal (MBM), an animal feed suspected of causing mad cow disease, government sources said yesterday.