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Food fraud is not a phenomenon of modern times. It hast been around since food is being traded for money. The difference from the old days is that the quantities traded are getting bigger and bigger and the supply chains stretch all over the globe. This makes modern food trade very vulnerable to fraud, because the risk of being caught is relatively small.
Lead primarily affects the nervous system. Intelligence deficits, motoric or growth disorders occur. For a baby's organism, heavy metals pose an even greater danger than for adults. Because babies utilize food particularly well. They take a fifth of their body weight daily in form of milk. Kidneys and liver are not fully developed yet and cannot detoxify an infant's body to the same extent as in...
Melamine is a white, odourless powder used, among other things, for the production of plastic and adhesives. When we recall the melamine scandal surrounding Chinese baby food in 2008, unscrupulous fraudsters adulterated milk powder and other dairy products with melamine to fake a higher protein content. The consequences: Eleven infants died of kidney failure and around 300,000 children fell sick...
Did you know that an estimated one tenth of all food worldwide is circulated with fraudulent intentions? In Africa alone, the estimated number is even higher. The perpetrators are often mafia-like criminal organisations.
For several years now, Veterinarians without Borders has been on the trail of global food fraud. Due to targeted focal actions, we have been able to remove milk...
Wir freuen uns ganz besonders, dass zahlreiche TierärztInnen unsere Aktion IMPFEN FÜR AFRIKA auch heuer wieder zu einem großen Erfolg gemacht haben – und das trotz COVID-19! Ihnen allen danken wir vielmals, dass Sie unseren Einsatz gegen den globalen Lebensmittelbetrug unterstützen!
Wussten Sie, dass geschätzt ein Zehntel aller Lebensmittel weltweit mit betrügerischer Absicht in Umlauf...
Das Prinzip ist einfach: die teilnehmenden TierärztInnen impfen wie gewohnt Haustiere und spenden die Hälfte der Impfeinnahmen in dieser Woche an Tierärzte ohne Grenzen. Dieses Jahr kommen die Spenden unserem Projekt Globaler Lebensmittelbetrug - Zeit zu handeln zugute.
Sie sind Tierärztin/Tierarzt und wollen an unserer Aktion...
This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) celebrates its 75th anniversary. With the primary goal of eliminating hunger in the world, FAO's tasks include raising standards for food and living and improving the production and distribution of food.
Against the background of the worldwide spread of the Corona virus, the FAO has published the...
Bedingt durch die bundesweiten Einschränkungen nach Auftreten von COVID-19 und deren massive Auswirkungen auf die Tierärzteschaft haben wir den Termin für unsere Aktion IMPFEN FÜR AFRIKA auf den 12. bis 18.10.2020 verschoben.
Unser aktuelles Hilfsprojekt Globaler Lebensmittelbetrug - Zeit zu handeln!, dem die Spenden von IMPFEN FÜR AFRIKA zugutekommen, ist...
Ihnen allen gilt unser ganz besonderer Dank! Durch Ihre tatkräftige, oft bereits langjährige, Unterstützung von IMPFEN FÜR AFRIKA ermöglichen Sie es uns, schnell und unbürokratisch jenen Menschen in Ostafrika zu helfen, für die eine tierärztliche Versorgung keine Selbstverständlichkeit ist. Das gilt gleichermaßen für pastorale Gesellschaften und ihre Viehherden, als auch für die...
At the Vetmeduni Vienna, the working group "Global Food Safety", headed by Prof. Dagmar Schoder (President of Veterinarians without Borders), conducts research on this important topic. In 2008, the group was able to uncover a food scandal concerning milk powder in Africa that was contaminated with melamine and lead. Prof. Schoder was thus...
Our parent organization Vétérinaires sans Frontières International (VSF-Int) is looking for a...
Our parent organization Vétérinaires sans Frontières International (VSF-Int) is looking for new...
As part of the opening of the vernissage of the visual artist Guido Rupp, alias "GuRu", paintings...
Our Tanzanian employee John Laffa wishes all supporters and friends of Veterinarians without...
Sweet potatoes are very popular in Africa. In Tanzania, many small traders sell steamed sweet...
We congratulate our Maasai student Lucas Moreto! As reported, Lucas is studying law at the TUDARCO...