A Monash University student café has been forced to close its doors for two days in order to clean up its act following a string of disastrous council inspections found a multitude of food safety breaches. Eight council health inspections found that Clayton’s Cafe Student Curries and Pizza...

A man in Singapore was forced to have his hands and feet amputated after suffering an extreme bout of food poisoning caused by raw fish. The operation was performed on the 50-year-old father of two after he experienced a severe reaction to life-saving medication prescribed to him to treat his...

The Indian government has filed a lawsuit for illegal business practices against Maggi’s parent company Nestlé after the recent instant noodle ban. Earlier this year Indian food safety regulator Uttar Pradesh allegedly found traces of MSG and excessive levels of lead in Maggi instant noodle...

Victorian butcher’s claim tough new industry guidelines are forcing small producers to stop selling meat. PrimeSafe, the meat licensing authority in Victoria, have reportedly released strict new regulations that target the dry-ageing beef process. According to an article this week on the GoodFood...

Claims have come out this week that Melbourne’s prestigious Langham Hotel, which was linked to a serious salmonella outbreak earlier this week, was previously ‘infested with cockroaches, mice and other vermin’. Investigations have found that 60 guests who dined on High Tea at the hotel on 11 and...

India’s food safety authority is once again showing they’re cracking down on food and drink imports with Jacob’s Creek wines seemingly the latest target. Food Standards and Authority India (FSSAI) stopped imports from Australia’s largest wine company late last year after reports from food safety...

Mobile food van owners Lachlan and Cameron Hope have spoken out the Gladstone Observer about the challenges they faced when starting their food business. The pair set up Scrumptious Tatties’, a mobile restaurant that serves home-style jacket potatoes and salads, just over a year ago. In an...

An American man has put his health at risk after consuming 120 raw eggs in a live performance on reality TV show America’s Got Talent. Patrick ‘Deep Dish’ Bertoletti, a 30-year-old cook from Chicago, astounded both the judges and the audience when he drank four glass jugs filled to the brim with...

Public health researchers are calling for the new Health Star Rating system to apply to fast food outlets as a way to better inform consumers of the nutritional facts surrounding exactly what they’re eating. The Health Star Rating scheme is a labelling system that rates the overall nutritional...

Two Sydney butchers have been hit with a combined total of more than AUD $21,000 in fines and extra costs after being prosecuted for manufacturing meat products that were found to contain illegal amounts of sulphur dioxide. The first case involved a Sydney butcher who was fined AUD $12,950 by the...