Import alert on food products from China widens Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit USA Today WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars. Import alert on food products from China widens Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit USA Today WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is...

Next, you have to select a short-grain sushi rice and a bottle of rice vinegar any kind will do as long as it s meant to make sushi. Let s go shopping a great place to find the ingredients you need is the T&T market, where everything you need is conveniently located in the sushi section. But if you have a penchant for raw fish, vegetables and rice rolled up neatly in a pleasantly plump little mouthful, don t despair sushi is the kind of meal you can make yourself at home. The trick to...

Krirkkrai conceded that the problem of offering advance prices of crops to farmers at lower than market rates -- a kind of rice mortgage --are still being pressed by rice mills or other entrepreneurs. With strict measures taken by the government,corruption among such local officials had lessened and farmers are able to deposit paddy rice at good prices. He said he was satisfied average paddy prices in the crop season this year are Bt300-400 higher than those of last year although there are...

Jefferson County s corn acreage had declined to under 10,000 acres for the past several years, but may increase by as much as 300 percent this year, Plunkett said. The driver? Ethanol, which is elevating corn prices and prompting growing interests in building ethanol or biodiesel production facilities in Southeast Arkansas. But throughout the state and around the nation, the number of acres being devoted to corn is pardon the pun a-poppin. Soybean acres in some counties have moved into...

More Breaking News PHOTO OF THE DAY Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer Grady Sizemore slides safely into 3rd base, stealing the bag underneath the legs of Baltimore Orioles 3rd baseman Melvin Mora during the first inning of the game at Jacobs Field Sunday, April 29, 2007. More Breaking News PHOTO OF THE DAY Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer Grady Sizemore slides safely into 3rd base, stealing the bag underneath the legs of Baltimore Orioles 3rd baseman Melvin Mora during the first inning of the game at...