Food safety
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‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone
Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain the hazardous isotope Caesium-13…
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Head of Japan drugmaker to resign over dietary supplement potentially linked to 80 deaths
President of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical standing down after damning report said company failed to act with suffi…
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App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled
App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandalAn app that al…
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Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil
Food safety scandal exposed by state-run newspaper has implicated several major Chinese firmsA food safety sca…
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Japan dietary supplement recalled amid investigation into two deaths and 100 hospitalisations
Cholesterol-lowering supplements containing ‘beni koji’ recalled by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical over possible lin…
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Fists and pig guts fly in Taiwan’s parliament debate on US pork imports – video
Legislators from Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw pig guts and exchanged punche…
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Worm found in tonsil of Japanese woman with sore throat
Near-4cm-long nematode roundworm is thought to have come from raw fishAn unpleasant sensation at the back of t…
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‘We always get an A’: Fukushima strives to prove food safety before Tokyo Games
Stringent testing continues in prefecture to counter reputational damage from triple disaster Knives are wield…