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Zero Hunger? UN Leads With Landfill Salad and Recycled Food
2016-01-26 00:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: When the United Nations hosted a high-level lunch for visiting world leaders at the UN dining room during the General Assembly sessions last September, they were in for an unexpected surprise. The lunch, hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a strong advocate of zero hunger, consisted largely of recycled food salvaged from the kitchen before it was dumped into garbage bins. Every dish was made from scraps that would normally be wasted, Ban told another group of world leaders at a dinner...
P115.5-M food terminal to boost NegOcc economic enterprise, organic sector
2016-01-25 05:06:55| Agriculture - Topix.net
THE proposed P115.5-million Negros First Food Terminal on San Juan Street, Bacolod City is positioned to further boost the economic enterprise and organic agriculture industry of Negros Occidental. The food terminal is one of the four major infrastructure projects worth P.5 billion that the Provincial Government is targeting to construct starting this year.
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Dole Food suspends operations at Ohio facility due to Listeria outbreak
2016-01-25 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Dole Food has stopped production at its facility in Springfield, Ohio, after a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to packaged salad led to the hospitalisation of 11 people and one death.
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Sugar levels to be cut by food and drink giants
2016-01-23 14:46:19| Beverages - Topix.net
Sugar levels are set to be reduced by food and drink giants as they vow to cut the nation's calorie consumption. And on top of shrinking the size of popular products to bring them in line with healthy-eating guidelines, ads targeted at the under-16s will also be avoided.
Food industry mounts last-ditch effort to block state GMO labeling laws
2016-01-23 09:58:24| Food - Topix.net
The nation's food and farm industries are mounting a furious, last-ditch push against mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, with dozens of Minnesota businesses backing the effort as part of a national coalition. With Vermont set to become the first state in the country to force GMO labels on foods on July 1, opponents of on-package labeling are running out of time.
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