Food regulation, foodborne risks, processing, additives, and related safety issues.
From the 55-year-old “Order King” who died suddenly on his delivery scooter to a rider begging online, from Xu Zheng’s Against the Current to Singapore’s Platform Workers Bill — in 2024, delivery riders under algorithmic control became a shared focus of cinema, scholarship and legislation.
Starting an organic sourdough bakery was not a whim. In order to provide my family with quality carbs, I spent several years learning how to make sourdough using a natural wild yeast starter. Over those years, I often gave loaves to friends or brought them along to potluck dinners, where…
As a foodie, I don’t eat meat, but I cannot live without beans—soybeans, mung beans, red beans, black beans, and chickpeas. Although I avoid buying from shops as much as possible and try to eat what I grow myself, the consumption of soy products at Evil Person Valley has always…
The Paris Olympics closed last week, but the dust has yet to settle on the doping controversies. The turmoil involved at least three incidents related to food safety: Ultimately, all three incidents were determined to be caused by the consumption of meat products “contaminated” with doping agents, rather than the…
This episode of Food Talk focuses on the recent and widely discussed oil tanker incident, exploring the impact of food safety issues on our daily lives. Despite weathering numerous food safety scandals, consumers still seem powerless to change the environment they live in. This is even more apparent from the…
Editor’s Note We are what we eat; eating well has never been a trivial matter. The scandal involving edible oil transported in tankers has once again sparked anxiety over food safety, highlighting the immense difficulty of tracing the origins of what we consume. Along the long chain from farm to…
Recently, the scandal involving coal-to-oil tankers contaminated with edible oil sparked a public outcry, once again bringing food safety and public health to the forefront of public concern. In reality, safety hazards stemming from food have always been present. In March this year, a study published in *Nature Communications* titled…
Foodthink Says As May arrives, it is once again the season for foraging mushrooms in the mountains of Yunnan. In recent years, wild vegetables and wild fungi have become increasingly popular. Not only are various premium wild greens and mushrooms appearing in mainstream supermarkets, wet markets, and online fresh produce…
Foodthink says ‘315’ is the shorthand for Consumer Rights Day. Every year on this date, people instinctively focus on which frauds have been exposed by CCTV. In daily life, however, a product’s value exists in more than just a binary of ‘real’ or ‘fake’; consumers also care about quality and…
Foodthink’s Take With the Lunar New Year approaching, who wouldn’t want to prepare a lavish New Year’s Eve feast with minimal time and effort? Riding this wave, various pre-prepared meals have once again trended across online shopping platforms—for just over a thousand yuan, you can bring home a full set…
