Anyone who has had a run in with Campylobacter can tell you it’s not a pleasant experience, and I am an anyone.
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Another gem from the BBC’s the Food Programme. This week, the food journalist Sheila Dillon was reporting on the revival of butter and the possible reasons for it. Butter has been made for thousands of years and up until the 2nd world war we ate alot of it. Then came…
Unsettling news published yesterday online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI). Apparently men with high omega 3 oil levels in their blood had a significantly higher incidence of high grade (aggressive) and low grade (the most treatable) forms of prostate cancer.
..well, you are if you are a fruit fly. That’s the interesting research published in the PLOS ONE journal in March this year.
That was the reminder posted on the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) website today. The reason being that contaminated curry leaves were behind an outbreak of food poisoning at the Street Spice festival in Newcastle, UK, that affected more than 400 people.
That was one of the stories on the front page of the South China Morning Post (SCMP) today. The newspaper present the data from the analysis of 7 brands of baby formula. Three of which from mainland China, (Beingmate’s Baby Club, Synutra’s Super infant formula, and Yili’s Gold infant formula)…
Don’t panic! It was a very small operation in Vietnam (the police seized 336 bottles) and has been shut down. But the operation itself reminds us that there is an ongoing fight against food fraud.
An interesting review published this week in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry delves into the subject of vitamin B12 in food and how to prevent deficiencies.
With approx. 60,000 cases of food poisoning caused by E.coli 0157:H7 reported each year in the U.S., scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been looking at ways to tackle this problem.
It does sound obvious, fertilise the potato plants well to ensure they produce good potatoes. But here is the interesting part, the amount of nitrogen and sulphur in the fertiliser affect the levels of sugars and free amino acids. This is important because this has an effect on the colour,…