SOUTH KOREA: For more than 30 years, chef and restaurant owner Oh Keum-il built her expertise in cooking one traditional South Korean delicacy: dog meat. But the 58-year-old’s experience with a food eaten for centuries is about to become history.

The number of children made ill by tainted milk in China doubled to nearly 53,000 as the government vowed to crack down on those responsible for the scandal which has raised new questions about the safety of the country's food chain.

Cadbury chocolate bars are being recalled in Singapore following fears of possible salmonella contamination, according to newspaper reports today.