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GM fish closer to being served up

A genetically modified salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first GM animal in the world to be declared safe to eat.

Billy Adams: Coffee becomes opium of masses

It might be grown on old opium farms but $60-a-cup Black Ivory is hardly the most unexpected coffee discovery in the shadow of Asia's golden triangle.

Cafe society blossoms in Britain as pubs take a hammering

Jeanette Lewis is sipping a latte and looking out over a damp market square. She checks the buses as they pass down the high street.

Sweet smell of success for 50 years

A whiff of lollies in the breeze - with a trace of gravy - is the sweet smell of success for a South Auckland factory providing steady jobs and export earnings.

BurgerFuel raises $2m in share sell-off

Marmite fight gets High Court date

A battle between Sanitarium and a Christchurch man who imported 2000 jars of UK Marmite into New Zealand will head to the High Court early next year.

Onus on makers to prove claims

Misleading nutrition and health claims about food will be stopped under new regulations on labelling.

Food safety regulations to probe health claims

NZ olive oil in world's top 20

A Waiheke Island grove has produced an olive oil that's been named among the top 20 in the world.