Annually, around 420,000 people die after consuming contaminated food. These are preventable deaths. To change this status quo and inspire action, in 2018, the United Nation established the World Food Safety Day (WFSD).
Almost 10% of grain-based foods labelled as ‘gluten-free’ and over 35% of those that do not contain gluten by nature in India have been found to be contaminated with it, some up to 90 times more than permitted levels.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it will destroy global stocks of its fortified cereal – a critical part of its efforts to prevent malnutrition among women and children – identified as the culprit of an outbreak of illness in...
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) manufactured the three brands at its facility in Buffalo, New York, which the US FDA has connected to at least 17 reported cases of E. coli infection.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK has issued an urgent recall of Farmhouse Biscuits Honey and Oat cookies, as biscuits that contain wheat were accidentally packed into some packets.
Following allegations last week that millions of American children are being exposed to a suspected carcinogen through a raft of popular oat-based foods, New York Senator Chuck Schumer has now accused the FDA of withholding information on a weed killer...