Pradnya Survase, of Khalapur, faces the death penalty after five guests died at the feast in Mahad, in Raigad district, on June 18. Police said Survase intended to kill her husband, her mother-in...
In July 2017 Belgian food safety authorities publicly released information about a pesticide, fipronil, found in eggs leading to millions of eggs recalled. The announcement came a month after the...
A Pakistani candy shop owner has confessed to fatally poisoning at least 30 people by lacing his goods with pesticide in an attempt to take revenge on his older brother, police told AFP Friday. K...
https://www.barfblog.com/2016/05/revenge-candy-killed-dozens-in-pakistan/
Some 33 people including five children have now died in central Pakistan after eating sweets accidentally tainted with insecticide, officials said Sunday. The mass poisoning occurred in the Karor...
https://www.barfblog.com/2016/05/33-dead-after-eating-insecticide-on-sweets-in-pakistan/
As many as 1,766 food safety raids have been carried out across Kerala and nine shops have been closed for selling adulterated food articles during Onam season, Health Minister V S Sivakumar said...
https://www.barfblog.com/2015/08/indian-state-makes-food-safety-a-priority-conducts-raids/
With over 2,800 sick from deliberate poisoning with a pesticide at a Japanese frozen food manufacturers, the presidents of the firm did the only honorable thing: fall on their swords. A 49-year-o...
Japanese police have arrested a factory worker for allegedly poisoning frozen food with pesticides, in a case that sickened more than 2,800 people across the nation, news reports say. Gunma Poli...
https://www.barfblog.com/2014/01/2800-sick-man-arrested-over-japan-food-poisoning/
More than 300 people across Japan have fallen ill after eating frozen food products contaminated with pesticide. Shoppers have reported vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of food poisoning aft...
https://www.barfblog.com/2014/01/300-sick-from-pesticide-in-frozen-food-in-japan/
It’s end-of-year, so lists are big, and I’m fond of my Top-5 Records label list.But some are just dumb, and it’s good to see the science types in New Zealand calling out some BS.The Dominio...
https://www.barfblog.com/2009/12/dirty-dozen-food-warnings-are-simplistic-and-suck/
When Amy and I were in Guelph, Ontario a few weeks ago, she aksed, “what’s with all the dandelions.”I tried to explain how municipalities, and now the province of Ontario, were proposing ba...