Japan finds more types of radiation-tainted food
March 20, 2011 - 11:51pm
Japan's Health Ministry says tests have detected additional types of radiation-tainted vegetables, in more places, suggesting that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex is reaching further into...
Foreign rescue team exposed to radiation in Japan
March 16, 2011 - 1:44pm
A team of Australian and New Zealand search and rescue workers has been exposed to low levels of radiation after their helicopter was forced to land near Japan's disaster-stricken nuclear power complex.
Concern raised over high coliform content in wells
By
Rene U. Borromeo
| July 31, 2010 - 12:00am
The City Council has requested the city health department to immediately treat and rehabilitate deep wells in different barangays here that reportedly have high coliform content.
Cebu News
Drug tainted with fungus in Hong Kong
March 7, 2009 - 7:31pm
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong health authorities have ordered a local drug-maker to suspend production after its medicine that treats gout was found tainted with fungus, officials said today.
Kellogg says FDA confirms salmonella in crackers
January 20, 2009 - 7:06am
MILWAUKEE (AP) – Kellogg Co. said Monday federal authorities have confirmed that salmonella was found in a single package of its peanut butter crackers, as a Midwestern grocer recalled some of its products...
GLOBAL NEWS: China seeks public trust amid milk scandal
September 21, 2008 - 5:12am
BEIJING (AP) - China's leaders scrambled yesterday to contain public dismay over widespread contamination of milk supplies, castigating local officials for...
Pollution seen behind Cebu water problem
By
Wenna Berondo
| October 5, 2005 - 12:00am
Pollution is one of the major causes of Cebu's problem on water, said Cebu Uniting for Sustainable Water Vice President Fr. Margarito Alingasa. "Aside from lack of water, we are also experiencing problem on contamination...
Cebu News
Western Australia pushes GM liability laws
By
Antonio M. Claparols
| September 18, 2005 - 12:00am
National legislation governing liability for GM contamination: This Western Australia’s minister for agriculture would like to see. The call comes after preliminary test results in Western Australia identified...
Agriculture
GM crops as trade secrets?
By
Antonio M. Claparols
| January 9, 2005 - 12:00am
Since 1987, large quantities of genetically modified (GM) corn, soy bean, rice and wheat have been exported by the United States, these are products of experiments on GM traits tested in a huge variety of food crops....
Agriculture
From downscaling to relocation?
By
Rey Gamboa
| May 29, 2004 - 12:00am
Many Manilans, especially those who reside in the Pandacan area, to include their worried relatives, must have heaved a sigh of relief upon knowing that Pilipinas Shell Corp. has completed the second phase of the...
Business
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