Food scares help China's nascent organic market
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Fish could give you cancer, snails meningitis and baby milk may kill your children -- barely a day goes by without some new food horror story in China.
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America&#039;s appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can&#039;t keep up with demand. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, about 2.5 percent, of the nation&#039;s food market. But the slice is expanding at a feverish pace.
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China risks damaging its credibility if it does not tackle its food and drug quality problems, an official newspaper said on Monday amid a series of health scares over toxic drugs, foods, toys and other products.
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The organic food market has been well established in the West ever since people began taking an interest in natural products in the 1970s.
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China's cuisine is being altered by the growing ppularity of fast food, with Chinese now more likely than Americans to eat takeout meals.
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Dumpling delicacies stuffed with cardboard shreds and bogus rabies vaccines are the focus of the latest health scares in China, where an industrial solvent used in toothpaste was banned after a spate of global recalls.
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CHICAGO - Organic chocolate sales are booming as more U.S. consumers seeking untreated natural ingredients are choosing the sweet treat to satisfy their cravings, and mainstream companies are entering what was once considered a high-end market.
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Chinaâs second quarter growth exceeded forecasts, but the economy faces rising food prices, high energy consumption and a large trade imbalance.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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The organic-food maker's results are sure to give investors a good feeling in their stomachs.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- After hearing about dangerous Chinese products elsewhere, Indonesia this summer began testing popular Chinese-made items on its own store shelves. What it found has added to the list of horrors: mercury-laced makeup that turns skin black, dried fruit spiked with industrial...
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China is to put in place a system allowing the recall of unsafe or unapproved food products following a series of health scares that have led to illnesses and deaths, state media reported on Tuesday.
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China hoped to become a highly competitive producer of crocodile meat, hides and shoes, but that dream has been difficult to realize.
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Pampered pigs or processed pork? Farm-fresh or greenhouse grown? With China's food supplies under scrutiny following a series of health and safety scares, Chinese officials are taking no chances for the Olympic Games this August.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH SHANGHAI, China - Even in anything-edible-goes-in-the-pot China, the Huifu Fine-food Restaurant is drawing attention with special menu offerings that include alligator kebabs and soup - complete with the endangered species' head and tail.
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Choosing just a few organic foods can make a big difference.
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Simply making the choice to buy organic food can induce a sense of well-being, according to research.