Global food stocks face crisis, says chief scientist

There is a stark warning from one of the government’s most senior advisors that urgent action must be taken to protect the next generation from a global food crisis. The most comprehensive report to date on food security is expected to say that international leaders must start working together now to find ways to boost [...]

Kiss Bananas Good-bye?

Should you prepare to buy your last bunch of bananas? According to a recent story in The New Yorker, the answer may be yes. The problem (which has also been deftly reported by writer Craig Canine, in Gourmet magazine and in an award-winning 2005 story for Smithsonian), is that growers have been relying on a [...]

UK watchdog: Coke’s Vitaminwater claims misleading

You’ve probably seen them starting to be sold in Singapore and the region, so this is good to know: Britain’s ad regulator says Vitaminwater has too much sugar to be accurately described as nutritious and has ordered owner Coca-Cola to stop running advertisements carrying the claim. The Advertising Standards Authority says Coca-Cola broke ad rules [...]

New eco-label for food-courts

Our only worry is that food vendors really do recycle cooking oil, but not in the healthiest way. The Singapore Environment Council SEC has launched a new certification scheme to facilitate the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices among local food-court operators.SECs Executive Director, Howard Shaw, said food courts generate huge amounts of waste and consume [...]

Green schools combat bad diets in Philippines

Are there similar movements in Singapore, Indonesia or Malaysia? The Philippines is transforming primary school yards into vegetable gardens in a bid to fight US-inspired junk food addictions that are causing an explosion of health problems throughout society. At one of the showcase schools in Manila for the burgeoning health food project, teachers and students [...]

Tests confirm banned drugs in US beef

Just wondering if Singapore’s AVA has done anything. They’re pretty good at following other countries’ leads. The China Post news staff — The Department of Health DOH said two supermarkets, Costco and RT-MART, had removed U.S.-imported beef products from the shelves yesterday, after they were found to contain small amounts of banned drugs a day [...]

What’s In Your Bottled Water – Besides Water?

Nestlé’s Pure Life Purified Water discloses its water source and treatment method on the label and offers an 800-number that consumers can call to request a water quality test report. But the nine other top domestic brands – Coca-Cola’s Dasani, Pepsi’s Aquafina, Crystal Geyser, and – strangely – six other of Nestlé’s seven brands – [...]