BEIJING (AP) — China’s food industry still suffers from the use of dangerous illegal additives, a health official said Tuesday, vowing to widen a national crackdown to stop the practice a few months after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk products that sickened thousands of children.
Vice Health Minister Chen Xiaohong told a video conference Tuesday that underground markets for additives still exist in some regions, and there are “unspoken secrets” in the food industry, said the official Xinhua News Agency.
“Some lawless people are still using high technologies to …

The Dangers of Aspartame (NutraSweet)
Aspartame is by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.
Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure.
Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965, when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company was testing for an anti-ulcer drug.
Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983.
It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr John W. Olney and Consumer attorney …

‘We are very proud to announce the Dutch participation to the Gulfood 2009 in Dubai’ said the Agricultural Counsellor for The Netherlands to the Gulf Region, Mr Philip de Jong.
‘This group of 32 Dutch companies contains suppliers of food and food ingredients as well as specialized manufacturers of processing and packaging equipment. It demonstrates the growing importance of the Gulf market for Dutch suppliers of food, food ingredients and food processing technology.’
The increase in the number of participating Dutch companies is due to the fact that the UAE and Saudi …

EAT CHEAPER AND EAT BETTER.  From FoodMatters Documentary contributor Dr. Andrew Saul.

Completely worth the 10 minutes read!!

If you had to dig into your pocket a little to pay your internet service provider this month, this page could help you get your investment back several times over. When I say, “eat well”, I mean “eat healthfully,” not “eat elaborately“. Eating healthfully means a complete but meatless diet of inexpensive, whole foods.  It also means a good tasting, simple diet that you can live with – and will live better with – every day. You …

In part two of my winery adventure two weeks ago, I stopped by tiny Converse to visit Oak Hill Winery. The journey from Elwood to Converse was around 23 miles up Indiana 13 to IN-18, full of winding paths and some nice scenery. It was the perfect opportunity to see a part of Indiana I don’t get to see often, as well as reflect on my just completed visit to New Day Meadery. If you were planning on leaving from Indianapolis directly to Oak Hill, it is 15 minutes east …

Miss M just sent me a text message from school (in between classes so it was OK!)
This is the same Miss M who cannot tolerate any artificial food additives, is anti GM foods and for the first time in her 12 years of life is trying to educate herself about organic nutrition, affects of chemicals in daily life, ethical issues and learning about the whole “climate change thingy” as she puts it…….
This Miss M has also started high school this year & is going to a school where the teachers …

The topic of food additives is not quickly addressed in one article. Searches on the internet can reveal information that is either pro or con regarding food additive substances.
Depending on one’s personal philosophy, it is possible to justify the inclusion or the exclusion of food additives. There are many companies which justify the addition of food additives of one sort or another with various rationales. In fact, some — or even many — of the additives can be consumed with no immediate obvious harmful effects.
The reader is referred to the …

The ‘hot flash’ (HF), also called a hot flush, is a very common complaint of women in mid life.
It is experienced by up to 75 per cent of pre-menopausal and menopausal women in developed Western societies.
For some women, the problem is minor, but for others, HF is an extremely unpleasant and embarrassing sensation that can disturb sleep and interfere with daily life.
By contrast, the problem is rare in many primitive societies where there is not even a word for the condition in some of their languages.
Although HF is mostly a …

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 23 (UPI) — If people have problems pronouncing something, they will consider it to be risky, U.S. researchers said. 
Psychologists Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz of the University of Michigan said they gave a group of students a list of made-up food additives and asked them to rate how harmful they were.
The additives all contained 12 letters, with Magnalroxate being one of the easiest to pronounce and Hnegripitrom one of the hardest. The students rated the difficult to pronounce additives as being more harmful, and the hard …

At least 70 people have fallen ill in China after eating pork products contaminated with an illegal animal feed additive, state media report.
The victims were treated for stomach ache and diarrhoea in Guangdong province, according to the China Daily. Three people remain in hospital.
The tainted pig organs contained the steroid clenbuterol, which is used to prevent animals gaining fat.
It is the latest in a series of food poisoning cases in China.
Officials in the southern province are quoted as saying three people have been detained on suspicion of involvement in …