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Fake pesticides threaten food safety

More than one in 20 pesticides sold in the EU could be fake, potentially endangering food safety and human health, writes Cath O'Driscoll in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. These counterfeits range from sophisticated copies of patented products to low-quality fakes with little or no resemblance to the original. And it is a problem that is getting worse every year, accord...
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Fake e-mails and Web sites harvest your identity

WTN's Mike Klein gives you the scoop on some of the ways Internet con artists may try to steal your personal and business information through fraudulent e-mails and Web sites. Be on the alert these fakes may look very real. A Madison-based company, NameProtect, has identified e-mails that look like they come from major financial institutions or charities. Original air date: Saturday, February...

NameProtect roots out fake tsunami-related donation sites

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Fake Microsoft E-Mails Are WORMS in Disguise

If you receive an e-mail from Microsoft and it even looks like a Microsoft image in the body of the message, Be Careful! These e-mails appear to be the result of the "W32/Swen.A@MM" virus which spreads via e-mail and network shares. It is a Mass-Mailing worm which disables processes related to security software such as antivirus and firewall software. According to Microsoft, the worm...
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Fake Sun Tans Encouraged

Fake tanning is being encouraged by a school in Scotland with the object of preventing children from jeopardizing their health using sun-beds. Seminars are proposed to be conducted in schools by Fake Bake, // a cosmetics company. Sun beds are reportedly resulting in the number of skin cancer cases rising. Many students of the Thomas Muir High School are reported to be going in for su...

The growing availability of Fake drugs in the market

With a wide range of medications available , one must also be wary of the fake drugs available in the market //. According to the Drug Control Department, 63 batches of spurious drugs, mainly comprising antibiotics, painkillers and cardiac medicines, are being sold in Bangalore. Most of the drugs were found to have a very small percentage of medicine and in some no medicine at all. K...

Clampdown On Fake Drugs Manufacturers In India – New Bill Enacte

The Central Government of India is planning to incorporate penal provisions under the Drugs and Cosmetics// (Amendment) Bill 2005 to make licensed drug manufacturers who are in the habit of designing or packing their products in such a look-alike manner a criminal act. Officials say the Bill attempts to bring in imitations or substitutes (look-alike) cases where a drug resembles another d...

Plant based fake meat induces repulsive reaction

In a strongly worded news the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, has received more than 130 complaints from British and American consumers// to ban the sale of - the fake meat made from fungus that is sold under the brand name Quorn. It was found to induce vomiting and many people fell ill. Quorn is the brand name for a line of foods made with fungi based 'mycoprotein.' That in...

Imprisonment for fake “baby milk” manufacturers in Chia

Two Chinese manufacturers who were making and selling inferior quality infant formulas have been imprisoned. This follows death of several children after being fed with this fake low nutritional quality milk//. According to official estimates, up to 200 babies after being fed the formula milk of little nutritional value suffered. The doctors diagnosed the condition as "big he...

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