Police in New Zealand are investigating how drugs in sweet wrappers were donated to a food bank.
Earlier this week, the Auckland City Mission discovered that an unknown person donated some lollies containing methamphetamine that were included in food parcels.
The Rinda brand pineapple lollies were in a sealed retail-sized
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A woman facing charges in a fatal mushroom poisoning incident in Australia has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Erin Patterson entered the plea at Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court and was remanded in custody. The case will now be moved to the Supreme Court of Victoria for trial, with the first
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Polish authorities have issued an urgent warning to avoid meat sold at a market in the country after one person died.
The Government Centre for Security (RCB) told people not to eat meat from unverified sources bought at the market in Nowa Dęba in Tarnobrzeg County over the weekend because
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Police in Portugal have uncovered potential water testing fraud involving a laboratory.
Operation “Gota D´Água” led to the arrest of 19 people for allegedly falsifying analyses of water intended for human consumption. Those detained are aged between 25 and 61 years old and are accused of a range of crimes
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned people not to eat Caligold chocolate following reports of illness.
The 70 percent dark chocolate bars were sold at Mansfield Market in Nottinghamshire, England. FSA and other authorities are trying to find out whether the product has a wider distribution.
Police referred the
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Police in Australia have charged a woman as part of an investigation into the deaths of three people from suspected mushroom poisoning.
Homicide squad detectives from Victoria Police arrested a 49-year-old woman at her home in the town of Leongatha earlier this week. The suspect, Erin Patterson, is the daughter-in-law
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Police in Finland are investigating the sale of alleged fake hygiene passports to people recently arriving in the country.
Helsinki police have referred the case for prosecution. Operations were run by a fictitious and unregistered company called Marbon Oy.
The Finnish Hygiene Passport was developed to promote food safety. It
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Police are investigating after three people died from suspected mushroom poisoning in Australia.
Four people were taken to the hospital on July 30 after they became ill following a meal at a house in Leongatha, a town in the state of Victoria, the previous day.
Two women, aged 66 and
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A man has been arrested in Italy for threatening to tamper with food and water products in supermarkets.
Investigators said the 47-year-old man claimed he would target mineral water and food items in supermarkets by injecting them with cyanide, thallium sulphate and rat poison, if he was not paid a
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German police have detained a woman they believe was responsible for contaminating food and drinks that poisoned people at a university this past year.
The 32-year-old woman from Mainz has been placed in a psychiatric hospital, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt and police in southern Hesse. She
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