Several Australians have been hospitalised after consuming ‘mushroom gummies’. This highlights the challenges of regulating products that fall somewhere between a food and a medicine.
You can eat and cook with whole hemp seeds (right), hearts (centre) and ground seed (left).
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Hemp seeds are now legal as a food product in Australia. They won’t make you high, but they are very nutritious.
Even though they were designed for athletes, sports drinks are now usually consumed by people who are neither exercising nor athletes.
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A proposal to allow sports drinks manufacturers to feature health claims has led to something of a spat between the drinks industry and a health lobby group. The heart of the matter is whether “sport drinks…
Delicious and nutritious … and safe.
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Ashley Ng, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
In this third instalment of GM in Australia – a series looking at the facts, ethics, regulations and research into genetically modified crops – Ashley Ng explains how GM foods are determined safe to eat…