カテゴリー: Food safety
Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain the hazardous isotope Caesium-137A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce foun…
President of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical standing down after damning report said company failed to act with sufficient urgency after alarm was raised in JanuaryThe chairman and president of a major Japanese dietary supplement maker is to resign, as the co…
App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandalAn app that allows users to track trucks across China has been disabled after a scandal in which reporters discovered that tankers used to transport fuel we…
Food safety scandal exposed by state-run newspaper has implicated several major Chinese firmsA food safety scandal has caused mounting public outrage in China days before a high-level Chinese Communist party meeting at which leaders will try to boost c…
Cholesterol-lowering supplements containing ‘beni koji’ recalled by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical over possible link to kidney diseaseA nationwide recall of a dietary supplement that lowers cholesterol has been issued in Japan amid concerns it could be link…
Legislators from Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw pig guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament on Friday as they tried to stop the premier, Su Tseng-chang, from taking questions, in a bitter dispute o…
Near-4cm-long nematode roundworm is thought to have come from raw fishAn unpleasant sensation at the back of the throat can be a sign that a cold is on the way. But for one Tokyo woman, the cause of the pain was not a sniffle but a live worm that had l…
Stringent testing continues in prefecture to counter reputational damage from triple disaster Knives are wielded in silence as chunks of meat are sliced up and placed in containers, the reputation of an entire region resting on every step of the proces…