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...

Queensland’s Ebuta Goat Dairy is recalling their raw goats milk from Townsville stores after traces of E. coli were found to have contaminated the products. The Ebuta Goat Dairy, which are permitted to sell unpasteurised goats milk products to the public, are currently rushing to recall all ‘Ebuta...

A recent food safety scandal surrounding some of Maggi’s noodle products have led to Australian authorities suspending instant noodles packets that are imported from India. The company, which has reportedly lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the scandal first broke, is alleged to have...

Starbucks stores in India have rid their shelves of many of their famous flavoured syrups after local food safety inspectors have determined them unsafe. The coffee giant has bowed to the pressure of their governing food authority who reportedly rejected the products on an ‘assessment of risk and...

Charlie Sheen has been rushed to hospital this week suffering severe food poisoning after eating dodgy clams. Around 11pm on Monday night the 49 year-old actor reportedly called an ambulance to his Los Angeles home after falling sick from eating a take-away seafood pasta meal. Despite sources...