Food
Health Officials Warn ‘Throw Romaine Lettuce Away’
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 21, 2018 (ENS) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local partners, are [...]
Food
Business
McDonald’s Pledges Sustainable Packaging By 2025
OAK BROOK, Illinois, January 16, 2018 (ENS) – Fast food giant McDonald’s today announced that by 2025, all of the company’s guest packaging will come from renewable, recycled, [...]
Food
Pope: Conflict, Climate Change Cause Worldwide Hunger
ROME, Italy, October 16, 2017 (ENS) – Pope Francis today urged governments around the world to work together to make emigration a safer and more voluntary choice, saying [...]
Food
Protein Made With Electricity Could Ease World Hunger
LAPPEENRANTA, Finland, July 24, 2017 (ENS) – Finnish scientists have produced a single-cell protein using electricity and carbon dioxide that can be developed for use as human food [...]
Food
Pope Donates to Feed Drought-Stricken East Africa
ROME, Italy, July 24, 2017 (ENS) – In an unprecedented move, Pope Francis has donated €25,000 to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s efforts to support people struggling [...]
Food
U.S. EPA Greenlights Pesticide Harmful to Children
WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2017 (ENS) – Effective today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is denying a petition by two environmental groups who ask that the agency revoke [...]
Food
Grocery Industry Clarifies Date Labels to Cut Food Waste
WASHINGTON, DC, February 25, 2017 (ENS) – When shoppers look at their food purchases today they could see any of these warning phrases alerting them when a food [...]
Food
Climate-Smart Rice the ‘Crop of the Future’
LOS BAÑOS, Philippines, February 24, 2017 (ENS) – More than half of the world’s population, nearly four billion people, eat rice as their daily staple, but the changing [...]
Food
Perfluorinated Chemicals Found in Fast Food Wrappers
WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2017 (ENS) – The health hazards of perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, are well known to scientists, yet some fast food chains still use food [...]
Food
Latin America, Caribbean Aim to End Hunger by 2025
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic, January 25, 2017 (ENS) – Latin America and the Caribbean could be the first developing region to completely eradicate hunger if its governments further [...]
Air/Climate
Africa Seeks 25 Million Climate Smart Farmers by 2025
By Charles Mkoka
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 15, 2016 (ENS) – African delegates from more than 45 countries have welcomed progress made by the New Partnership for African Development, [...]
Food
France Bans Plastic Plates, Cups, Cutlery
PARIS, France, September 22, 2016 (ENS) – France has become the world’s first country to pass a law banning plastic plates, cups and utensils unless they contain a [...]
Food
UK Sushi Fraud Probe Finds 10 Percent Mislabeled
MANCHESTER, England, April 12, 2016 (ENS) – Critically endangered species of fish are being sold in UK sushi restaurants without accurate labeling, finds new research by scientists at [...]
Food
Toxic Chemical Still in Can Linings of Popular Foods
WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2016 (ENS) – A new report from six health and environmental groups finds 67 percent of nearly 200 food cans from dozens of brands [...]
Food
Global Citizens Tribunal to Put Monsanto on Trial
PARIS, France, December 6, 2015 (ENS) – Global food, farming and environmental justice groups are joining forces to put biotech crop giant Monsanto on trial for ecocide and [...]
Food
Too Toxic: EPA Rejects Dow’s Herbicide Enlist Duo
WASHINGTON, DC, November 25, 2015 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will vacate its approval of the Dow AgroSciences herbicide Enlist Duo after determining that [...]
Food
U.S. Approves First Transgenic Animal for Human Food
WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2015 (ENS) – Over the objections of millions of Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a genetically engineered animal food. Atlantic [...]
Food
African Women in Agribusiness Resolve to Take Action
By Charles Mkoka
DURBAN, South Africa, November 13, 2015 (ENS) – Women as key producers of food for African households will no longer cry, Estherine Fotabong assured a [...]
Food
Eating Hot Dogs, Ham, Red Meat Raises Cancer Risk
LYON, France, October 27, 2015 (ENS) – Reducing consumption of red meat and processed meats can reduce the risk of colorectal, pancreatic and prostate cancers, finds a new report [...]
Food
Honey Bee Queens Harmed by Neonicotinoid Pesticides
BERN, Switzerland, October 16, 2015 (ENS) – The first study to investigate the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on honey bee queens finds that these chemicals may contribute to [...]