Topic: Europe
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The remote valley of Mesohori in northeastern Greece seems an unusual choice for a stand against genetically modified crop conglomerates who are knocking on Europe's door.Yet thousands of organic farming advocates seeking to bar so-called "Frankenstein" foods from the continent made the ...
At the popular Bio Company store in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, the shelves are virtually bare, as demand for organic meat and eggs spikes amid a dioxin crisis that has shaken Germans' faith in food."Dioxin: Bio products are not affected," screams a notice ...
Standing in her greenhouse in gumboots, Zorana Gajic jokes that she used to think "food grew in supermarkets" but now experiments on how to mix crops to ensure optimum use of her "organic" soil.A path next to the greenhouse leads to an ...
As of 2009, only a small fraction - 3.7 percent of total food sales in the United States - were organic. What is the actual difference for your body if you seek out and pay for organic rather than non-organic products? Exactly, ...
The article examines the impact of the economic crisis on consumers spending for organic food in Great Britain. Almost half of organic shoppers will not cut back on organic food. the bank's man- aging director of retail, said spend- ingon ethical food ...
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