The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the drug Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride) in the fight against obesity. It is the first new drug to be approved in 13 years.
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Scientists from Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon and USANA Health Sciences, Inc., Salt Lake City have demonstrated that tea and grape seed extracts can lower the conversion of starch into glucose in the body. This is good news for suffers of type II diabetes who are often prescribed enzyme inhibitors which,…
Eggs from an organic farm in Lower Saxony, Germany, have been found to contain dioxin. It is thought 260,000 eggs could be affected, having levels of dioxin 4 times the legal limit. The farm has been closed and an investigation is underway into the source of the contamination. The farmer…
The Food Standards Agency’s shellfish monitoring programme has successfully completed a move away from tests using mice for the detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and lipophilic toxins in commercially harvested shellfish.
The Food Standards Agency has published 10 short videos to help caterers produce food safely. Each video is about a minute long and covers specific food hygiene practices. These training resources are designed to illustrate messages within the ‘Safer food, better business’ packs and they follow the same innovative and…
Keeping track of what we eat and choosing healthier foods could be made easier thanks to a consultation launched today on front-of-pack (FoP) nutrition labelling by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in both Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from high winds, snow, or ice could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and…
Too much milk fat in your diet can lead to colitis. That is the findings of a paper published ahead of print on the Nature website by a group from the Gastroenterology Section of the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
Vitamin E can help prevent cancer, but are you taking the right one? That’s the worrying message published by researchers from the State University of New Jersey and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
The EFSA just published a video in the “Understanding Science” video series to teach you in the use of pesticides in food production. It is worth watching and can be found here.