Billions of dollars wasted on vitamin supplements, U.S. doctor says Most vitamins such as antioxidants don’t help to prevent cancer, heart disease and dementia, and some supplements could be harmful, say doctors who advise people to stop wasting their money ...
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UK: What’s really in supermarket poultry: If only water was ALL they pumped into your chicken
By Joanna Blythman, Daily Mail After the horsemeat scandal of earlier this year, we now have the chicken fiasco, where major chains have been exposed for selling frozen chicken with shockingly high levels of added water. An investigation this week ...
Read More »USA: What did the Chicken on Your Plate Eat?
Arsenic is being fed to chickens, are you feeding it to your family. Would you eat chicken that ate arsenic and banned antibiotics? If you shop at grocery stores in the USA, you probably already have. When eating that delicious ...
Read More »UK: Muslims in Keighley and Leicestershire dispute use of ‘halal’ nasal spray
A flu vaccination programme at schools in Keighley has attracted criticism after it was discovered the vaccine contains pork gelatine. This follows similar issues earlier in Leicestershire. Leicestershire and Rutland is part of a pilot by NHS England to offer ...
Read More »Norway Food Safety Authority tightens halal control
Oslo – After a series of scandals surrounding halal labeling in different European countries, Norway Food Safety Authority has announced new steps to strengthen control over halal food production. Much of the halal meat sold in Norway is mis-labelled or ...
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