Day: March 25, 2011

By Tim Jones The recent steep rise in wheat prices has raised fears of another global food crisis. It is the banks and hedge funds speculating on the price of food that are primarily responsible for this spike in prices. In just one month in July 2010, the price of wheat increased by 60%. The huge increase in the price has already led to people across the world paying more for the staple food....

About 7.34 million tonnes of solid wastes were generated in Malaysia in 2005, enough to fill up 42 buildings the size equivalent to the PETRONAS Twin Towers. Solid waste generation is expected to reach 30,000 tonnes per day in 2020. Of the composition of solid waste, it is estimated that about 45% is made up of food waste. (Source: Ministry of Housing and Local Government) This does not come as a...

The Consumers Association of Penang calls on Ministry of Health to ban the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in food products.  HFCS is a toxic substance with an innocent name which food producers are using as a cheap substitute for sugar in processed food.   HFCS is widely used in a wide range of foods  such as jams breads spreads, chocolate, baking and cooking ingredients,...

136 additives, mostly chemicals, are allowed to be added in instant noodles by Codex, the food standards of WHO/FAO. The picture below shows some of those ingredients. Out of the 136 additives, 24 of them are sodium salts, besides table salt which is also added. That is why instant noodles contain extremely high sodium content. According to CAP tests, just one packet of instant noodles alone can...