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Fake organic products from Italy have been sold around Europe, Italian police said on Tuesday as they announced the results of an inquiry that has led to seven arrests and the seizure of 2,500 tons of food.

The police said 700,000 tons of illegal organic products valued at 220 million euros ($295 million) had been sold over several ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Larry Schultz Organic Farm of Owatonna, Minnesota, is recalling organic eggs after at least six people became ill from salmonella, state officials said.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Department of Health are investigating the salmonella infections, which took place from August 12 to September 24, the agencies said in a statement on the U.S. Food and ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski on Wednesday vetoed a new legislation that would allow some genetically modified seeds in the country, saying it ran against European Union rules.

Poland currently forbids any GMO cultivation or sales on its soil and must align its legislation with the more lenient one of the EU after Warsaw lost a court case ...

An organic food boom in Germany is creating demand for flour ground the old way, but the country only has one person left with the skills needed to carve and maintain millstones.

According to the German organic food industry body, the BOeLW, sales of organic food in Europe's biggest economy have tripled since 2000 and are on course to ...

An Australian farmer on Thursday launched legal action against his neighbour after genetically modified canola blew onto his farm, prompting authorities to strip him of his organic licence.

Believed to be Australia's first lawsuit over GM crops, organic farmer Steve Marsh is suing his neighbour Michael Baxter.

Marsh wants compensation for the loss of his lucrative organics title and ...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Friday that deadly E.coli bacteria that have killed 31 people and hit farmers across Europe almost certainly came from contaminated bean sprouts grown at an organic farm in northern Germany.

Traces of the deadly strain were detected in a packet of bean sprouts from the farm found in a family's rubbish bin in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The warm, watery, organic growing environment suspected as the source of a deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany may produce delicious, nutritious bean sprouts, but is also an ideal breeding ground for the dangerous bacteria.

Bean sprouts are often prime suspects in E.coli outbreaks around the world, and health experts say it is no surprise the hunt ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States lifted import duties on European luxury foods on Friday in return for a promise of bigger hormone-free beef sales to the European Union, signaling an end to one of the trading powers' oldest disputes.

The United States said in its Federal Register it had dropped punitive duties on a list of EU goods - from truffles ...

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly taken to eating only meat from animals he has killed in order to appreciate that a creature died so that he could live.

The 27-year-old billionaire took on the dietary regimen as the latest in a series of "personal challenges" that he pursues in what little time he spends not working on Facebook, a ...