food safety Archive

  • Sue Kedgley

    Food Bill update from Sue Kedgley - by Sue Kedgley



    So many people have contacted us with their concerns about the Food Bill that I requested a further meeting with officials to discuss these concerns read more
    September 13, 2011 1:13 pm - 56 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Aussies decide on how our food should be labelled - by Sue Kedgley



    At the end of last week Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) held two meetings in New Zealand to consult with New Zealanders about how we would like our labelling laws changed. But it was something of a shock to turn up to the meeting and find that a panel of five Australians was conducting [...] read more
    March 29, 2010 4:44 pm - 12 Comments
  • frog

    Trustworthy food - by frog



    You can normally tell a substance has become less food and more controversy when it acquires a name such as MON863.  That’s the moniker of one of Monsanto’s genetically modified varieties of maize. It struck controversy last year when an independent French study showed that, despite it being approved for human consumption in 2006, it [...] read more
    October 10, 2008 11:34 am - No Comments
  • frog

    Knowing where your milk powder comes from - by frog



    Here’s some more from Question Time in the house yesterday.  The government has a longstanding position that Country of Origin Labelling on food is not a food safety issue and so it refuses to protect consumers’ right to know where their food comes from. That assertion that the safety of food has nothing to do [...] read more
    September 24, 2008 9:02 am - 5 Comments
  • frog

    Protecting food safety - by frog



    Mother Jones has an icky story about imported Chinese food in the USA involving contamination, salmonella, bateria and pesticides. At one [poultry] plant, inspectors had found paint from the ceiling “on the table used for edible product,” while workers at another facility wiped down meat-handling areas with dirty cloths. Parts of a third factory, designated [...] read more
    August 28, 2008 3:57 pm - 5 Comments
  • frog

    Half of all tomatoes contain endosulfan. ERMA happy with this - by frog



    The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA New Zealand) has just released its assessment of endosulfan and recommended its continued use in New Zealand. Wikipedia says of endosulfan: Endosulfan is one of the more toxic pesticides on the market today, responsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world.[17] Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen—a synthetic [...] read more
    June 30, 2008 9:56 pm - 8 Comments