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.
Leaves from the tree llex paraguariensis are steeped in hot (but not boiled water) and the resulting infusion is drunk as a hot beverage called Maté (or Chimarrão) in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. Currently the branches, including the bark, are discarded, generating large amounts of solid waste. Now Brazilian…
All is not well with the UK dairy farmers. The BBC radio programme “Farming Today” has been covering the story for the last few weeks that UK dairy farmers are up in arms about the price they receive for their milk, claiming that it currently costs more to produce than…
Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is an organic compound found in low levels (approximately 15mg/kg) in honey. It is caused by the dehydration of some sugars and levels can increase dramatically following heat treatment of honey to destroy contaminants or to reverse crystallisation. Unfortunately, TMF has been shown to exhibit cytotoxic, genotoxic, mutagenic,…
It is a dilemma when on a diet, nuts have some health benefits but they are also highly calorific. So should you scoff, moderate or avoid? There have been studies looking at consumption of nuts in weight loss diets, and although the effect was either positive (i.e. increased weight loss)…
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