The Chinese government says it will investigate allegations that fuel tankers have been used to transport cooking oil after carrying toxic chemicals without being cleaned properly between loads. The controversy has spread online as social media users express concerns about potential food contamination.

Gravitas | China's cooking oil contamination scandal

A recent study, published in Nature Geoscience, showed alarming concentrations of persistent "forever chemicals" in surface and groundwater globally. Hotspots included Australia, the United States, and Europe.

US, China, Australia identified as hotspots for harmful ‘forever chemicals’, says news study

A diner who recorded himself licking a soy sauce bottle and wiping saliva on a fish slice at one of Japan's leading sushi restaurants is being sued by the sushi chain in Japan for ¥67mn ($480,859) in damages.

Japanese restaurant chain files damages suit against 'sushi terrorist' for licking soy bottle

Following a string of deadly manufacturing mishaps, the world's biggest supplier of cheap medicine has come under heightened scrutiny. US inspectors have recently discovered extensive problems at plants controlled by some of India's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Indian pharma industry in doldrums? US FDA reports contamination in factories

A Japanese cafe sacked a waitress after alleging that she had added her blood to the cocktails she prepared. Taking to Twitter, the Mondaiji cafe in Sapporo, Hokkaido, said that one of its waitresses had been fired after serving customers alcoholic drinks laced with her blood.

Japanese waitress sacked for 'mixing own blood' into cocktails

India may issue a notice regarding cough syrup sold by Marion Biotech, whose medicines have been linked to the deaths of several children in Uzbekistan, as testing revealed that many of the company's medicine samples contained toxins, an Indian drug inspector stated on Saturday (March 4), as per an exclusive Reuters report.

India may issue alert on Marion cough syrup exports as lab tests find toxins

A temporary halt was ordered in the transfer of contaminated waste from the site of the train crash in Ohio, East Palestine by the federal environmental authorities earlier this month, as fears of further contamination from the toxic waste loomed.

Ohio toxic train crash: Authorities suspend waste removal as contamination fear looms

A 37-year-old British man Leoaai Elghareeb appeared in court for the accusation of using syringes to inject blood into food at three main supermarkets. Elghareeb has been accused of injecting blood in food and contaminating it.

British man held for injecting blood through syringes in food items in supermarkets

Some batches of a spice mix sold by a top Indian cooking brand were taken off the shelves in the United States for salmonella contamination, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said.

Top Indian spice mix recalled in US on salmonella contamination

The country's weather service reported radioactive pollution in the Chelyabinsk region that exceeded background levels by 986 times

Russia denies nuclear leak after reports of radioactive pollution

Evacuees who fled the massive wildfire in the Canadian oil hub of Fort McMurray begin to return home, but worry about water contamination and insurance claims

Trepidation lingers as Canada wildfire evacuees begin to return home

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