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Australian regulator blocks Saputo WCB takeover bid

By Mark ASTLEY

Canadian dairy giant Saputo has been ordered by the Australian Takeovers Panel not to process any acceptances received under its latest bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB), following a complaint by rival bidder, Murray Goulburn. 

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How could Séralini's GM study have made suckers of so many people?

By Katherine Rich, chief executive of the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council

The retraction last week by the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology of the widely criticised anti-GM research paper commonly referred to as “the Séralini paper” no doubt left many in the science community and food industry around the world rightly...

Australian food chain faces sea trash risk

By Ankush Chibber

Australia’s food chain faces a risk in the shape of the plastics that are contaminating its waters that could threaten human health, a new study has suggested.