Colon cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. In 2008, 1.24 million cases were diagnosed and 610,000 fatalities occurred. A new publication in BMJ brought together the results from 25 studies looking at effect of eating fibre from different sources, i.e. fruit, vegetable, legume and cereal on the incidence…
Eating a diet consisting of unprocessed foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts, oils, fish, poultry and lean meat was able to decrease cholesterol in two weeks by a level that takes 6 months with statins.
A €2.4 million EU-funded project has begun with the aim of reducing microbes from the surface of packaged fresh food that can cause spoilage.
Researchers at Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, have developed a test that can detect pesticide build up in farmed fish. As demand for fish has grown, the fish meal used as fed has been replaced with soya, maize and rape which can contain pesticides.
The objectives of the audit were to evaluate the system of official plant health controls and the certification of citrus fruit for export to the European Union (EU). The audit team also assessed the action taken to address the recommendations made following a previous mission on the same topic.
The objective of the audit was to evaluate the control systems put in place in Portugal for general food hygiene, traceability, labelling, bottled water, food additives and food contact materials. Overall, three out of nine recommendations from the latter mission report have been adequately addressed.
There should be EU-wide mandatory nutritional risk screening. This is the call coming from leading policy makers, scientists, industrial representatives and insurance groups from across Europe ahead of the EU nutrition day tomorrow (10.11.11).
Ever wondered what fish species make up the “fish meat” content of your crab sticks? A team from Biofortis, France have developed a method using Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (DHPLC) to do just that. Unlike protein based methods used to identify fish, DHPLC uses DNA which is more robust than…
The European Commission launched today an online database of varieties of agricultural and vegetable crops. The database contains around 19000 varieties of agricultural crops and around 17000 varieties of vegetable crops, the seeds of which can be marketed throughout the EU.
Giving children who have high haemoglobin levels baby food fortified with iron could adversely affect their development.
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