A supermarket chain says it will not allow genetically-modified (GM) food in its home brand range in South Australia, because an overwhelming number of customers are opposed to GM foods.

Food safety is again in focuse to the recent large amount of meet recall. Rochester Meat Company has voluntarily recalled 188,000 lbs of ground beef product.

As Christmas is rapidly approaching, Swedes are wondering what Italy has against a major Swedish holiday treat.

Over recent months, a long list of consumer goods from China – everything from seafood to toothpaste to toys – have been the objects of recalls.

A leading CSIRO scientist says there is no reason to fear that future gene technology will threaten food safety. Deputy chief of plant industry research, Dr TJ Higgins, says consumers have been using oil from genetically modified cotton for the past 10 years.

Investigators in China have uncovered the reason six people died from food poisoning last week. The six died in Hubei after eating dumpling soup for lunch. It has now emerged that the reason for their deaths was that the cook tried to thicken the soup by adding rat poison which he thought was flour.

Double B Foods Inc. recalls Smoked Sausage Rolls across twelve states due to possible health risks.

There has been renewed criticism of food standards in China after six people died when they ate the same soup earlier this week.

A top Chinese product quality official said Monday that an "all-out effort" was made to ensure the safety of the food supply at next summer's Beijing Olympics.

Giant Food Alerts Customers on General Mills Pizza Recall.

The Chinese Government has approved in principle a new food safety law aimed at raising standards at every level of production, a senior official said.