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 This article in the Globe & Mail points out that Organic Foods are no safer than non organic foods when it comes to normal food safety risks such as microbial infection, chemical changes and foreign material contamination. To me this is quite obvious, but it apparently is not to the consumer. Hopefully, growers [...] Have just listened to the parliamentary debate on what is now called a national emergency and heard Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica say we should go to bed earlier to “grow and get cleverer” and that we should use alternate energy in the form of gas and wood! Minister Erwin admitted maintenance capacity, coal [...] Having recently spent lot of time scouring the INTERNET I have been struck by the focus that there is now on two issues that impact on development in Africa – Biofuels and BOP enterprise models. Biofuels As Europe and the USA see the effect expanding refining is having on their agriculture and understand the overall [...] Preservation of foods is central to any food processing operation and specially important to small scale processors as it simplifies logistics. Food Technologists know that preserving acidic foods is safer and easier than low acidity foods and more appropriate to small scale processing. from Food Science Australia Food Science a joint venture between [...] I have mentioned my intention to put some focus on the issue of food loss/waste. There are a lot of quotes and figures I have seen over the years (maybe I will put these together in a formal way), cereal losses can be 15 to 25%, fruit & vegetable losses were once measured at 62% [...] There has been quite a bit in the media recently about the usefulness of Tshwane and Eskom sites as a means of helping with the management of power cuts. But they really don’t work! the information is not reliable / usable! See screenshots below Eskom showed power cuts underway in their meter but stated they [...] This article seems to indicate that there is now sufficient proof to accept that organic food are analytically more nutritional than non organic food especially in the antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. However, now comes the argument that variety, handling and cooking could eliminate these differences. Do not these kid of differences also apply to non [...] This morning on AgriTV, Dr Kirsten from the University of Pretoria spoke about there investigation into the potential of using the Geographic Indication (GI) approach to adding additional value to mutton products from the Karoo. Unfortunately, Dr Krsten’s part of the information is in Afrikaans, but is mainly a general discussion of the potential of [...] Yes there is a competition for the best Fish and Chip Shop in the UK, although I understand there are now more curry shops! Click on the image of the page to read about the winners
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