Russian food producers to cap food prices this week as inflation soars ...

Russian food producers to cap food prices this week as inflation soars ...
Forbes - MOSCOW (Thomson Financial) - Russia's leading food producers and retailers will this week sign an agreement with the ministry of economic development and trade to freeze food prices from Oct 15 to the end of December in an anti-inflationary move ...

U.S. widens contract fraud inquiry to include military's food ...
International Herald Tribune - WASHINGTON : Federal agents are investigating whether several large food companies charged the government excessively high prices for supplies to U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait, according to administration officials. Widening their previously ...

A Guide to Coffee Beans
Comedian Bill Maher once observed that if your favorite drugged state is "wired" and you live in the United States, you are set for life. Starbucks on every corner, coffee aisle in every store. Energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster i...

Fast food salt levels 'shocking'
BBC Health - The government recommends a maximum of 6g of salt per day for adults, 5g a day for children aged 7-10 and 3g for children aged 4-6. How can these companies justify selling food that contains more than the maximum daily limit for adults and children ...

Cardboard box served as disguise in spate of burglaries at fast-food ...
Globe and Mail - Imaginative thieves often pride themselves on thinking outside the box. But for three Torontonians now facing hundreds of burglary-related charges, police claim the real work was done inside the box - a cardboard box, roughly one metre square. In a ...