An outbreak of Salmonella Stanley infection involving 167 confirmed and 254 probable cases is on-going in several Member States of the European Union (EU).
Read More
Dairy Crest and Arla, the biggest UK milk processes have reversed the planned cuts to the price they pay dairy farmers for their milk. The announcement comes after days of dairy farmers’ protests and the threat to pour their milk away if the price cuts were not re-thought.
Two interesting papers involving milk fermentation are published this week in the Journal of Food Science. The first paper investigates the various microflora found in 4 samples of Kefir from across China to use as starter cultures. Kefir is a fermented milk drink involving yeasts and lactic acid producing bacteria….
Is high fructose corn syrup worse for you than sugar? Not according to a new research paper published last week in the Open access Nutrition Journal. They found that people on a calorie controlled diet lost weight regardless of whether sucrose or high fructose corn syrup was the main source…
William Kisaalita, a tissue engineer from the University of Georgia, USA, and his team have developed a milk cooler that can run on bio-gas, i.e. fermented cow dung. The device can cool 20 litres and was designed to help dairy farmers in Urganda, some of whom throw their milk away…
As reported by BBC, the salmonella outbreak in the Netherlands and the US was caused by Dutch smoked salmon. About 200 people got infected in the Netherlands and about 100 people in the US according to officials. And this could even be just the “tip of the iceberg”. It is…
An outbreak of Salmonella Stanley infection involving 167 confirmed and 254 probable cases is on-going in several Member States of the European Union (EU). As cases do not have travel history outside the EU within the usual incubation period for salmonellosis, these findings strongly suggest a multi-state outbreak currently taking…
Some chemicals in food might have a harmful effect on our health and safety depending on our level of exposure to them. Scientists generally assume that such effects are proportional to the amount, or ‘dose’: the more you are exposed to them, the more likely the possibility of an effect….
Whether it be cucumbers, melons, tomatoes or sprouted seeds, outbreaks of illness caused by fresh produce is on the increase. We have reported on the recall notices here on this website. Olaimat and Holley of the University of Manitoba, Canada have published a review on the matter in the journal…
In a world where people want less artificial preservatives in their food finding natural alternatives is of health and financial interest. Researchers from the Republic of Korea tested a number of leafy green vegetables commonly eaten in Asian cuisine for antioxidant activity and antimicrobial properties.