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France considers big tax hike on key ingredient in Nutella

Health & Medicine

France is wild about Nutella, the hazelnut-flavored chocolate sauce that’s perfect at any meal. But to make it requires palm oil, and French legislators have an eye on palm oil with a new tax. It’s just the latest in the fat tax movement by governments around the world.

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Health & Medicine

French Senator Proposes ‘Nutella Tax’

Global Politics

The Big Ban that Didn’t Work Out

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How to make our food safety system stronger

Global Politics

Salmonella-tainted peanut butter has sickened close to five hundred people in 43 states, and killed six. Bill Marler, a Seattle lawyer, explains why it takes so long to trace foodbourne illnesses and how the system could be improved.

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Today’s answer is Lebanon, where food industry leaders are trying to claim exclusive rights to falafel, hummus and other Middle Eastern delicacies as authentically Lebanese. The World’s Aaron Schacter has the story.

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