NZ firm develops real-time meat contamination test
A New Zealand firm has come up with technology that reportedly gives processing firms real-time results when testing meat for contamination.
Archives for April 22, 2013
History snapshot
New Zealanders' long-standing love affair with cod liver oil
Until the introduction of synthetic vitamins in the 1960s, cod liver oil had been used in New Zealand since the earliest days of settlement to ward off or cure illnesses.
Coke’s Himalaya plant plans spark environmentalists' fury
AN agreement between Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages and the Uttarakhand government to set up a Rs600cr (US$110m) manufacturing plant in Dehradun’s Vikas Nagar Tehsil has drawn the rage of local environmental groups.
Australian academic appointed to rice research board
Australia’s newly appointed representative on the board of the International Rice Research Institute said she would use her role to seek ways to grow rice as a means to combat world food shortages.