WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s has issued food safety recommendations due to the possibility of severe winter conditions.

More than a dozen health organisations have written to Downing Street just weeks before David Cameron launches his childhood obesity strategy

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The broken U.S. food system affects our lives in many different ways. Children face futures clouded by the threat of diet-related illness. Food workers struggle to live healthy, dignified lives on poverty wages. Rura...

“It is quiet here at the moment, but I am afraid. I know my city; this is the calm before the storm” sighed Fatimah Kadumy, as she ordered a steaming plate of freshly baked kanafeh – a much-loved Palestinian dessert – from a humble shopfront rumored to deliver the best kan...

A few decades from now, will it be common knowledge that using microwave radiation to heat food is harmful to human health? It's certainly a possibility, and information is already emerging which shows cause for concern. Microwaves work by causing water molecules to resonate at very high frequenc...

LAHORE - Pakistan has yet to start the process of preparation of legal framework within institutions for implementation of International Health Regulations aimed at preventing the spread of diseases across borders.

Scotland's new food body has urged the Scottish government to make plans for the introduction of a tax on sugar.

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) said the food industry should be given 12 months to come up with alternative ways of reducing sugar consumption.

For anyone struggling to keep the New Year Resolution to 'Do More Exercise' science shows a solution could be found in a simple cup of coffee.

In a paper published this month in the scientific journal Sports Medicine, Professor Samuele Marcora, a University of Kent endurance expert, sugge...

Innovative enzymatic technology, such as Novozymes' Acrylaway®, effectively reduces the formation of acrylamide.

Acrylamide® is a naturally-formed chemical substance that has been raising a number of health concerns and posing manufacturers with the challenge of how to effectively...