FOOD MILES/Professor P. Vincent Hegarty
Increased food miles affect food safety
food safety
Food Safety Starts with Soap/Making Soap from Ashes
Legend has it soap was first discovered by women washing clothes along the Tiber River at the bottom of Sapo Hill in Rome. Clothes became cleaner there, with far less effort. What was happening? Animal grease and ashes from sacrificial fires at Sapo Hill mixed with rainwater and ran down the slope as soap. Saponification, …
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P. Vincent Hegarty: MYCOTOXINS / AFLATOXINS are both NATURAL and TOXIC
Mycotoxins are naturally occurring toxins produced by certain molds (fungi) that are found naturally all over the world. They can contaminate food crops and pose a serious health threat to humans and livestock. Food crops can become contaminated both before and after harvesting. Pre-harvest contamination with aflatoxins is mainly limited to corn (maize), cottonseed, peanuts, …
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Compliance Labeling for Imports
The US imports about 15% of its food supply. According to the USDA “over 95 percent of coffee/cocoa/spices and fish/shellfish products consumed in the United States are imported, as are about half of fresh fruits and fruit juices and almost a third of wine and sugar.” The EU imported 93 million tons of food in …
SWALLOWING TRUST and GLOBAL FOOD SAFETY
Surely you don’t expect me to swallow that? In some parts of the world this is a polite way of saying a statement or data is considered untrustworthy and you do not accept it. Unfortunately, we cannot say that about the safety of some of the food we swallow. Among the many reasons is we …