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The Eco Waste Coalition, an environmental and health watchdog, has urged the Department of Agriculture to assure consumers that rice being sold in the market is safe from arsenic, a highly toxic cancer-causing chemical.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1526426 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1161701 [Title] => Noy signs law on consumer health protection [Summary] =>

President Aquino recently signed a law that aims to protect consumer health and facilitate market access of local food and food products.

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Thirteen years after imposing a ban on sodium cyclamate, an artificial sweetener better known as “magic sugar,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted it after several international reviews showed that there have been “no safety concerns” among the product’s consumers worldwide.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825018 [Title] => UN limits melamine in formula after China scandal [Summary] =>

A U.N. commission has set a recommended limit on the amount of melamine allowed in liquid infant formula after a 2008 scandal in China in which six babies died from drinking formula and milk products containing the industrial chemical.

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The surviving pages of the world’s oldest Christian Bible have been reunited — digitally.

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(Codex Alimentarius is the global reference point for harmonized or uniform food standards to ensure the protection of public health and promote fair practices in the food trade.)
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