Archives for July 3, 2005

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Huge costs of terror attack on US milk supply

The US milk supply chain is still too vulnerable to a terrorist attack, says new research, warning that stricter security could save billions of dollars and thousands of lives, reports Chris Mercer.

Weekly Comment

Food intolerance: a scientific void

It is time to draw on science to establish once and for all whether food intolerance is just a source of succour for hypochondriacs, or whether it is genuinely a modern scourge.

Parmesan puzzle heads Codex labelling debate

While debates on ingredient labelling and on Parmesan cheese are among the main issues at this week's meeting of the Codex Alimentarius, other items on the agenda include codes of practice for handling quick frozen foods, cadmium levels in rice and on...