Following a story published by IceNews and other Icelandic news channels regarding industrial salt being used in commercial food production, a number of international media channels have misinterpreted and distributed false information. Read the full story

It came to light over the weekend that for at least 13 years the Icelandic brewing and food supplies company Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson has been selling industrial salt to food production companies to put in their products. Read the full story

Today is Þorláksmessa (St. Þorlákur’s Day), the patron saint of Iceland. It is also an important part of Christmas and time to eat putrefied skate. Read the full story

Icelanders who eat a smoked rack of pork on Christmas Eve are people of the centre – the mainstay of Icelandic society. They are the people who are sick and tired of Icesave. People who eat lamb are nationalistic and those who eat ptarmigan are snobs. So says Páll Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, a self-proclaimed ‘everything expert’. Read the full story

Lawmakers in Copenhagen could be served with the same ‘meals on wheels’ food that is fed to the area’s elderly if a local councillor gets his way. Read the full story

Huge changes are on the horizon for how Icelandic food producers will have to label their products, as the country adopts new European standards designed to help consumers make informed food purchasing decisions. Read the full story

There has been a significant reduction in the quantity of Icelandic-caught fish being thrown back into the sea when fish of the wrong size are accidentally caught, or when the boat does not hold a quota for a particular species which ends up in its nets. Read the full story

Icelandic ornithologists have appealed to the media, asking them to remind people of the importance of feeding garden birds during extended cold snaps like the one currently gripping the country. Read the full story

New undercover videos showing pigs in squalid and cramped conditions in Finnish farms have raised the issue of cruelty and negligence again in the meat industry. Read the full story

A northern Swedish deli has achieved the seemingly impossible by offering several varieties of sausage that claim to contain up to 125 percent meat. Read the full story