Only about a third of infant foods in NZ, and a quarter in Australia, meet WHO nutritional recommendations. But many are packaged to create a ‘halo’ of health.
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Several Australians have been hospitalised after consuming ‘mushroom gummies’. This highlights the challenges of regulating products that fall somewhere between a food and a medicine.
Hemp seeds are now legal as a food product in Australia. They won’t make you high, but they are very nutritious.
A proposal to allow sports drinks manufacturers to feature health claims has led to something of a spat between the drinks industry and a health lobby group. The heart of the matter is whether “sport drinks…
In this third instalment of GM in Australia – a series looking at the facts, ethics, regulations and research into genetically modified crops – Ashley Ng explains how GM foods are determined safe to eat…
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