What is a food allergy?
An allergy is an exaggerated immune system response to something the body believes is foreign. This results in an overproduction of a particular type of immunoglobulin (such as IgE, IgG or IgA) when the person encounters the allergen.
With food allergies it may begin as soon as a person touches (hands, lips etc) the food, resulting in swelling. These types of extreme reactions may cause a shock reaction in the body known as anaphylaxis, where the blood vessels become leaky causing swelling that may block the airways, …

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (March 2) released its Food Safety Report for January 2009, which covered food surveillance results for the month.
　　About 4,600 food samples were tested in January. Among them, about 3,800 were taken for chemical tests and about 700 for microbiological tests. The overall satisfactory rate was 98.9%, with 51 samples found unsatisfactory.
　　While microbiological tests cover pathogens and viruses, chemical tests are conducted to detect sweeteners, preservatives, metallic contamination, colouring matters, veterinary drug residues, pesticides and melamine.
　　Samples tested included vegetables, fruits and their products; meat, …

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Age spots, sometimes also called liver spots sunspots, the colors and spots on the skin, which are closely associated with age and sun. …

　BEIJING — China’s top legislature approved the Food Safety Law on Saturday, providing a legal basis for the government to strengthen food safety control “from the production line to the dining table.”
　　The law, which goes into effect on June 1, 2009, will enhance monitoring and supervision, toughen-up safety standards, recall substandard products and severely punish offenders.
　　The National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee gave the green light to the intensively-debated draft law at a four-day session, following a spate of food scandals which triggered vehement calls for overhauling China’s current monitoring …

Japan used to be the biggest export destination for Chinese food products. But 2008 saw significant slide in trade volume due to a series of food safety incidents. The two sides are working on how to turn things around.
China exported food products worth 6-and-a-half billion US dollars in 2008 to Japan, an 11 percent drop from the year before. Some products fell more than 50 percent.
Over 40 percent of China’s food exports used to go to its neighbor, and this fell to 20 percent, the lowest in decades.

Japan used to be the biggest export destination for Chinese
food products.

China acknowledges food …

When approached by a situation that involves cooking for a vegan, even professional cooks can have problems in deciding exactly what to cook for the main dish and side dishes that make up a proper dinner. The following are a few helpful rules to aid you in the process of devisinbg menus for your vegan guests:
What is a Vegan? There is much confusion between vegan and vegetarianism – they are not the same. While a vegetarian often avoids all meat products, vegans avoid all meat and fish AND any associated …

Despite recent events, the United States continues to enjoy one of the safest food supplies in the world. But recent stories of food contamination have troubled many American consumers and, in some cases, affected their confidence in our food supply.
People need to know that the brands they buy and the foods they eat are safe, which is why product safety is priority one for our industry. Without consumer confidence, nothing else we do is possible. In an ever-expanding domestic and global marketplace, we must always be looking for ways to …

Feb 27th, 2009 | BEIJING — China’s legislature enacted a tough new food safety law Saturday, promising tougher penalties for makers of tainted products in the wake of scandals that exposed serious flaws in monitoring of the nation’s food supply.
Five years in the making, the law consolidates hundreds of disparate regulations and standards covering China’s 500,000 food processing companies, said Xin Chunying, a vice chairman of the legislative committee of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee.
The law pays special attention to the issue of food additives that lay at the …

Apart from an inexplicable fear of finding myself barefoot in a locked room with a Chihuahua named Ernesto, there are few things in life that truly terrify me.
Except, of course, Greek restaurants.
It doesn’t matter if the food is delicious or the service prompt and friendly. Invariably, my heart starts pounding, my hands start shaking and my armpits start leaking whenever I scan the menu at a Greek restaurant and notice they offer, for instance, a dish called lachanodolmades.
Don’t even ask what happens if somebody recommends the kleftiko or htapothi sti …

Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), on Saturday approved a new set of stricter food safety laws after a series of recent tainted food scandals highlighted the shortcomings in the country’s food standards monitoring system.
The new law enforces heavy penalties on those who violate a new set of new national standards on food safety, including large fines, cancellation of licenses and possible criminal charges.
The new measures that take effect on 1st June also calls a stricter and more efficient monitoring and supervision system, a set of national standards …