Companies in Romania, Cyprus, the Netherlands, and France have now been implicated in the horsemeat saga that has seen huge percentages of horse being sold as beef in ready-made meals.

The British food safety watchdog has launched an investigation into how beef on sale in the UK and Ireland contained traces of horse and pig DNA.

While obesity in children has broadly doubled over a 15-year period, cheese consumption has remained static

A BRITISH-BASED mail order seed company has been linked to an E coli outbreak in France that has led Ireland’s food safety watchdog to advise consumers not to eat raw bean sprouts.

Cucumbers could be the cause of a major E.coli outbreak which has killed two people, officials in Germany have said, and recommended that Germans cut cucumbers from their diet for now.

German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in chicken – the first such confirmation of tainted meat since the discovery that farm animals had eaten contaminated feed, possibly for months.

Little effort appears to have been made to reduce sugar in children’s cereals nearly three years after a damning report, a British consumer watchdog said today.

A CAMPAIGN to protect the reputation of Irish meat in crucial markets was given a big boost yesterday when British consumers were assured by their food safety agency that they can buy Irish pork with confidence.

BRITISH consumers are likely to unknowingly eat banned Irish pork products, due to the non-requirement for food manufacturers in the EU to specify the country from which their ingredients are sourced.

A WOMAN was awarded more than £800,000 (€1m) after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet.

EVEN small amounts of caffeine should be avoided during pregnancy, experts in the US have warned.

Doctors today called for the fortification of flour with folic acid in a bid to cut pregnancy defects.

Folic acid should be routinely added to all white and brown wheat flour, the British Food Standards Agency (FSA) has recommended.

Food experts will decide today whether folic acid should be routinely added to flour in the UK.

CADBURY yesterday posted a 24% hike in group pre-tax profits of £402 million (€589m) for the first half of the year despite the impact of the salmonella scare and the subsequent product recall.

Tests are continuing for the salmonella strain that led to Cadbury recalling one million of its chocolate bars.

Cadbury's is defending its decision not to take immediate action over a salmonella scare.

HEAD of microbiological safety at the British Food Standards Agency, Dr Judith Hilton, said as a precaution poultry meat should be cooked until juices run clear and there are no pink areas, and raw eggs should be avoided.

CARELESS use of vitamins, taken by millions in the belief that they promote good health, could be causing thousands of premature deaths, scientists said yesterday.

CUSTOMERS of German supermarket chain, Lidl, have been warned that they may have bought potentially dangerous bottles of Australian red wine.

A British food watchdog has urged the European Commission to ban the adding of beef and pork proteins to chicken.

A warning has been issued about novelty sweets which have caused burns to the mouths of five children in Spain.

SIX brands of soy sauce have been recalled after an investigation found they contained unacceptable levels of cancer-causing chemicals.

The Czech Republic has banned imports of poultry from the EU following the the recent discovery that chicken sold in Britain contained beef protein.

High levels of cancer-causing chemicals have been found in chicken eggs at a farm in Anglesey, UK , it was disclosed today.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has been asked today by FG health spokesman, Gay Mitchell TD, to independently assess a study published by the British Food Standards Agency

The British Food Standards Agency has revealed that it found traces of spinal cord in a consignment of beef delivered to a meat plant in the North from the Republic.