A pair of American high school students working on a project using DNA analysis inadvertently uncovered a startling degree of outright fraud involving expensively-priced food items.
New York City high school pupils Matt Cost and Brenda Tan carried out a science project to see what sort of everyday items carried decipherable DNA. With the assistance of [...]
Zebu Organization of the YearWhat else could it be but the House of Commons, the high reputation of which has been brought low by the Expenses’ Scandal? It’s as if our 646 MPs lined up their feet and took aim at them with shotguns. What is most disgraceful is not the claims that have been [...]
Most wine bottle labels say “contains sulphites” but, as well as grapes, there are plenty of other things in there too. How would we know, though? Winemakers may shove in anything up to 50 additives and preservatives without giving us the slightest clue what they’re done.
Among them might be not only enzymes, sugar, tannins and [...]
Kudos to Marks & Spencer for becoming the first major chain in the country to give the full facts about the origins of its diary produce, matching its policy on fresh fish and meat.
A couple of weeks ago The Sunday Telegraph, in its campaign for honest food labelling, revealed that more cheddar was now [...]
Farming Today’s series on the problems of misleading food labelling continued today with a look at cheese, and in particular cheddar. It seems that more cheddar now comes into the UK from Latvia than is produced in the Cheddar Gorge itself. Other so-called cheddar comes from Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and Australia, as well as [...]
Radio 4’s Farming Today is this week looking at misleading food labelling. Not being natural early risers, we admit we only caught this later on iplayer. However, this is an area rife with Zebu and the outrageous and deceitful way in which food can be presented to the public deserves highlighting.
Unlike The Today programme, Farming [...]
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