Dr Mercola is warning us about the presence of glyphosate in human urine

Dr Mercola is warning us about the presence of glyphosate in human urine and about the many health risks that may result from this toxic component of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller. If you are interested in health and in the safety of food, as surely you are, I urge you to read his article.

I watched Fish Unwrapped tonight on Channel 4 Dispatches

I watched Fish Unwrapped on Channel 4's Dispatches tonight, excellently presented by Alex Thomson. The lax hygiene standards, poor adherence to regulations, and inadequate inspection that obtain in some of the fishing areas from where the UK sources its fish led me to conclude that consumers here cannot trust the safety of much of the fish on sale in supermarkets. If you and your family ever eat fish fingers I suggest you watch this programme using the link I have given. I think you may well decide not to eat them any more. And I suspect there will be fewer takers for prawns after watching the programme: the thought of eating prawns injected with dirty liquid to bulk them up in order to sell the dirty liquid at the same price as the prawns... - Yuk! - Dunno quite what to recommend except that getting out of the EU would be a start, since the EU favours big business and the food industry over mere consumers/taxpayers.

Organic food sales increasing in China after cooking oil scandal and other food safety scares

Organic food sales have taken off in China after a series of safety scares, including the disclosure that one in 10 meals is cooked using oil dredged from the sewer.
Read article in the Daily Telegraph (UK)

The Soil Association reports that governments are using flawed food production data to justify GM food crops expansion

Governments and pro-agribusiness groups are using flawed data on food production requirements to push for an expansion of GM food crops, claims a new report from the Soil Association.
Read article in Natural Products Magazine (UK)

The idea of further expansion of GM food crops horrifies me. I am surprised at some of the people who espouse the expansion of GM food crops.

If you do not at present share my concerns about this perversion of food, I invite you to read Oryx and Crake, one of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels, reviewed here in The Observer in 2003: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/may/11/fiction.margaretatwood. You may find Atwood’s accomplished and well-informed vision of a future world causes you an apprehensive shiver or two.

Britain still permits controversial chemical Bisphenol-A to be used in the manufacture of a range of plastic products

Britain still permits controversial chemical Bisphenol-A to be used in the manufacture of a range of plastic products, including water bottles and the lining of food and beverage cans, like "the lining of 18 out of 20 best-selling canned food items including Heinz baked beans, Napolina tomatoes, and John West and Princes fish, as well as in tuna and sardines cans from major UK retailers Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda."

See report in the Independent and report in Food Safety News.

Food Alert about certain Loyd Grossman sauces

BBC News reports that "Batches of Loyd Grossman sauces are being recalled over fears that they may contain pieces of glass.

The food alert affects batch codes 9316 and 9317 of the chef's tomato and chilli pasta sauce jars."

Some Tesco stores not hygienic enough

The Telegraph reports that many supermarket stores are not reaching a high enough standard of hygiene, and that Tesco has been found to be the least hygienic of the big four supermarkets. Of all the supermarkets, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer were the most hygienic.

A delicatessen owned by the celebrity chef James Martin has been branded unhygienic by health inspectors.

James Martin's deli 'unhygienic'
Article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"An investigation into the Cadogan and James deli in Winchester, Hants, found mould in a chiller cabinet where meats are kept, poor hand hygiene and said the eatery failed to implement a food safety management system.

The investigation, by Winchester City Council as part of its safe2eat initiative, which gives members of the public information about places that sell food, also reported dirty work surfaces and chopping boards and said cleaning methods were "ineffective".

It also suggested "an overall lack of hygiene e.g utensils not cleaned, hands not washed, or inadequate temperature control".

Many pre-packaged salads contain bacteria which can cause potentially deadly food poisoning.

One in 10 salads has poisonous bacteria - Sunday Telegraph

Extract:

"Food safety experts are calling for stricter production controls on ready-to-eat salads after tests revealed that many contain bacteria which can cause potentially deadly food poisoning.

A report compiled by the government's Health Protection Agency (HPA), found that one in 10 pre-packaged salads containing meat or seafood was contaminated with the listeria bacteria. Evidence of E. coli and salmonella was found in some bags of salad.
The HPA report, which involved testing more than 2,600 ready-to-eat salads, concluded that the control of bacteria in food manufacturing and in shops was essential to minimise the potential for hazardous food contamination."


Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Plans to allow genetically modified crops to be grown throughout Europe have been shelved.

Europe puts plans to grow GM crops on hold - Telegraph

Extract:

"Plans to allow genetically modified crops to be grown throughout Europe have been shelved amid fears of a public backlash against "Frankenstein foods".

The European Commission has failed to find enough support for its plans to lift a nine-year-old freeze on GM crops being grown on a commercial basis.

Officials were forced to drop plans to produce a penicillin-resistant GM potato after it became clear that a bloc of countries led by Austria, Greece and Luxembourg would vote against it.

Commission proposals to release the potato, developed by BASF for use in industrial starch, were withdrawn by the German EU presidency ahead of a meeting of Europe's environment ministers last week.

"It became clear that there was no way to get a majority for the first approval of a GM crop since 1998, so it has been taken off the agenda," said an official.

Many EU governments are strongly swayed by the campaign against GM foods which sprang up in the late 1990s. This is despite scientific advice, the approval of the European Food Safety Authority and the growing threat of a trade war with the US.

"Consumers, most of whom have no desire to eat GM produce, expect politicians to put their health, food safety and the environment before the vested interests of a few agro-chemical companies," said a Greenpeace spokesman yesterday."

Well that's a bit of good news...(o:


Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
How to Lose weight!

See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free...(o: