A group of local software and radio frequency identification (RFID) companies - IE Technology, Silicon Craft Technology and FXA Company - has joined with a large local shrimp-exporter, Chanthaburi Frozen Food, in a pilot project for the use of RFID in frozen-food production. A group of local software and radio frequency identification (RFID) companies - IE Technology, Silicon Craft Technology and FXA Company - has joined with a large local shrimp-exporter, Chanthaburi Frozen Food, in a...

The federal government regulates importation of animals, but once they are in Canada there is little control over breeding, movement and sale of exotic species. government has extended the deadline for submissions to its Wildlife Act review until July 15, as it considers new issues such as handling exotic species and declining interest in hunting and fishing. To allow for commonly kept pets such as parakeets while restricting dangerous animals, the paper suggests the creation of a clean...

It's part of a creation at Canstruction, an annual competition in which architects and engineers build structures out of canned food, then donate the food to Food Lifeline, Washington's largest food bank. It looked like something in which a toddler would love to climb, but in a few days the car will become meals on dinner tables for the hungry across Western Washington. Canstruction, born 15 years ago in Seattle, is now a national competition in 80 cities that raises awareness of hunger...

He has poured money into poorer, neglected parts of the world, often into businesses as basic as making fish nets, plastic bags and matches, while also teaming up with private-equity powerhouses like the Blackstone Group on a huge $750 million hydroelectric system in Uganda. He has poured money into poorer, neglected parts of the world, often into businesses as basic as making fish nets, plastic bags and matches, while also teaming up with private-equity powerhouses like the Blackstone...

Steve Grabaki, a fisheries consultant and president of Graystar Pacific Seafood in Anchorage, said the adverse publicity about seafood processed in China will give seafood processed in the United States a slight competitive market advantage, but who knows for how long. On June 27, China closed 180 food factories, after inspectors found industrial chemicals being used in a range of products, from candy to seafood. Steve Grabaki, a fisheries consultant and president of Graystar Pacific...

She wanted to make humous with olive oil instead of tehina but her husband didn't like it. A few days ago a Mexican-American woman we met while shopping told me how frustrated she is with her attempts to please her Iranian born, chickpea-loving husband, and make him a good- tasting humous. Ozcan Ozan, author of The Sultan's Kitchen, prepares a colorful Turkish chickpea salad, combining the basic chickpea-olive oil-lemon juice mixture with diced tomatoes, chopped parsley, red onion, garlic...