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EU Widens Ban on Imports of Chinese Infant Food to Include Soya (Bloomberg)
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The European Commission said it will ban Chinese imports of food for infants and young children containing soya after high levels of melamine were found in soy bean meal shipped from the country.
Food bank wraps up holiday, starts with next (Billings Gazette)
There is no rest for those serving the hungry. Less than a week after delivering nearly 5,000 Thanksgiving food boxes in the local community, the Billings Food Bank was collecting turkeys and other food donations Tuesday for Christmas.
Kraft takes food to the hungry (Philanthropy Journal)
Through a contribution of $4.5 million to Feeding America, and the donation of millions of pounds of food, Kraft Foods aims to provide 50 million meals to hungry people over the next three years.
Hong Kong: Tainted Eggs From China (New York Times)
Hong Kong food safety authorities said late Tuesday that for the fourth time in less than two months they had found a batch of Chinese eggs contaminated with illegal levels of melamine.
Stabbing in supermarket (Los Banos Enterprise)
The Los Banos Police Department has confirmed that a stabbing took place inside Food 4 Less on Pacheco Boulevard during the weekend. The incident may be gang related. The Enterprise will post more details as they become available from law enforcement.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: The Recession Makes People Eat Less Meat, But More Fast Food (HuffingtonPost)
In a country where affordable and accessible health care was one of the biggest issues in the recent presidential election, it seems unwise to be trading whole foods for processed ones.
Yam ice cream takes the prize in Cornell class contest (Cornell News Service)
Healthy ice cream doesn't have to be an oxymoron. Take this year's winner of Food Science 101's ice cream-making contest: Slammin' Yamz! -- yam-flavored ice cream with beta carotene and fiber, molasses, marshmallow swirl, cinnamon and nutmeg and less than 4 percent fat.
Food prices should rise in 2009, but restaurant tabs will remain stable (Beaumont Enterprise)
Since the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted last month that food prices will rise between 3.5 percent and 4.5 percent in 2009. Because of that uncertainty, consumers shouldn't expect to see a significant increase in restaurant menu prices in the area at the beginning of the year, said Sabine Area Restaurant Association president Don Pittman.
Food pantries in Columbia County try to meet increased needs (Portland Tribune)
The need for emergency food has risen 90 percent in Vernonia since the floods last year. A year ago today the emergency food pantry there, Vernonia Cares, was destroyed by high water that inundated much of the town. Residents and business in the county rallied to the losses at the food pantry. ...
Students REACH out to less fortunate (Examiner)
Boxes piled heavy with canned goods and heaps of plastic bags loaded with other food items culminated a lesson in respect at the middle school and a service to the community.
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