By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News
A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of “new fundamentals”, according to a leading food expert.
Tim Lang warned that the current system, designed in the 1940s, was showing “structural failures”, such as “astronomic” environmental costs.
The new approach needed [...]
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Many people may be surprised by the number of chemicals they are exposed to through everyday household products, a small study finds, suggesting, researchers say, that consumers need to learn more about sources of indoor pollution.
In interviews with 25 women who’d had their homes and bodies tested for [...]
My personal note related to this aricle :
Do read carefully and you’ll find already several countries not playing “the game”, several options to “escape” restrictions …. nice political talk but who will pay in the end ? The usual us ! I don’t mind paying more (to some point) to change our way of [...]
A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday.
The huge smog-like plumes, caused mainly by the [...]
Remeber the video’s I posted october 31th : Melamine may be in US food supply
Elections are finished and the BBC posts this little topic, almost lost in the jungle of news
US authorities have issued a nationwide “import alert” for Chinese-made food products in the wake of the melamine contamination scandal.
The US Food and Drug Administration [...]
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