Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards. Food can transmit disease from person to person as well as serve as a growth medium for bacteria that can cause food poisoning.

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The Food Safety and Economic Authority (ASAE) decided inspecting the Cathedral of Lisbon to check the hygiene conditions of the containers where the wine is stored and the hostije used in the celebration...

Dr Michael Hansen, a biologist with the major New York-based Consumers Union, says the media doesn’t talk about GM issues and there is more apathy in the US....“They just don’t realize the extent to which certain food such as corn or soybean are genetically engineered, and often they have not heard of any of these food safety concerns.”

European and U.S. food safety agencies have deemed cloned pigs and cows safe to eat. Should we all become vegetarians?

Another concern, expressed by non-governmental organizations such as Friends of the Earth and Oxfam, is that government-subsidized large-scale production of biofuels could increase food prices in developing countries. In a recent report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Joachim von Braun writes: