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After a month of searching and testing thousands of vegetables, simple detective work trumped science in the hunt for the source of the world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak. The culprit: German-grown sprouts. Health officials announced Friday that sprouts from a farm in northern Germany caused the outbreak that has killed 31 people, sickened nearly 3,100 [...]
Commercials promoting sugary breakfast cereals could be put on a strict diet under government guidelines urging food companies to limit marketing of unhealthy products to children. Under a proposal announced Thursday by several government agencies, companies would be urged to only market foods to children ages 2 through 17 if they are low in fats, [...]
BANANAS have been dethroned as the king of the family fruit bowl as shoppers embrace cheaper options. They are still on the menu at the zoo, but consumers turned off by unpalatable prices are grabbing pears, grapes and apples instead. Coles data shows pear sales have surged 82 per cent since Cyclone Yasi wiped out [...]
World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index [...]
Washington apple growers are going to take an estimated $44 million hit this year from a new Mexican tariff, another chapter in an ongoing trade dispute that has already hurt cherry and pear growers. The 20 percent tariff took effect Thursday and affects all U.S. fresh apple sales to this state’s largest export market. State [...]
A bread and wheaten flour price hike in South Africa is looming in the next three months after Russia, facing its worst drought in 130 years, announced a wheat export ban from August 15. Late last week wheat prices rallied to their highest level in nearly two years and capped their biggest weekly advance in [...]
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