Food industry wants say in new legislation

Food safety is a job for the companies that make food, and government should focus on setting nutrition and health standards and policing the industry. That’s the pitch being made by large processors as the federal government prepares to revamp food-safety legislation. “Let’s not lose perspective: We can’t regulate bugs out of our food,” said

Shoppers Rate Products By IPhone

Take your iPhone into a supermarket and go up to a product on the shelf. Hold the iPhone next to the bar code on the package and take a picture. Within seconds, a colour – green, yellow or red – comes up on the screen, along with a single-digit number. The colour tells you how


Food Manufacturers Thrive In Recession

Food manufacturers are pulling through the economic recession with minimal damage because both domestic and export demand for their products remains strong, the Conference Board of Canada says. “Consumers have substituted lower-cost and store-brand foods, which usually mean lower margins for food manufacturers,” says a report released by the board. “Fortunately, exports of manufactured food

Argentine cow clones may help boost milk output

Argentine scientists have found a way to make cows produce more milk by injecting them with a bovine growth hormone produced by cloned and genetically modified dairy cows. Synthetic bovine somatotropin, which is also called rbST, is already injected into cows to boost milk production, but Argentine researchers say their method is cheaper and produces