First Lady Michelle Obama will speak with parents about the new and improved nutrition standards for school lunches by USDA. An important accomplishment of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act that President Obama signed into law last year, USDA is making the first major changes in school meals in over 15…
A new EU labelling law allows people with an intolerance to gluten to be better informed of the level of gluten in their food. Foods that contain less than 20 ppm (or 20 mg gluten/kg) can be labelled gluten free and foods that contain less than 100 ppm can be…
Researchers from the Center for Nutrition Research, Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found that adding milk to fruit drinks can significantly reduce the antioxidant capacity of the drink.
Giants mixed dried fruit has been recalled by UK Snacks because of incorrect allergy information. The packets, Giants ‘Just Fruit’ mixed dried fruits, 300g, with best before date July 2012, contain sulphur dioxide but this is not stated on the packet. Waitrose has recalled its Essential Salmon and Dill Fishcakes,…
The FSA in the UK has updated its list of products that are free from 6 food colourings (sunset yellow FCF (E110), quinoline yellow (E104), carmoisine (E122), allura red (E129), tartrazine (E102) and ponceau 4R (E124)) associated with hyperactivity in children.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must be built to meet the evolving needs of a 21st century agricultural economyaccording to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. He aims to increase the USDA efficiency and hence to help producers continue to drive America’s economy by streamlining operations and cutting costs.
“The European Union has developed capacities to manage health crises and to tackle serious cross-border health threats. However, until now, threats emerging from biological, chemical and environmental events are not addressed in the same way as those from communicable diseases.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have published a guidance document with the aim of harmonising the Total Diet Study (TDS) approach. TDSs are a complementary approach to monitoring and surveillance programs. They are designed to allow calculation of population dietary exposure, as opposed to identifying individual contaminated food items.
Following the E.coli outbreak in Germany last year, the Panel on Biological Hazards were asked by the European Commission to issue scientific opinion on the public health risk of seed and sprouting seed that can be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria such as Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC).
GreenLight™ 960 , a test to measure bacteria contamination of raw meat developed by Luxcel Biosciences Ltd., Cork, Ireland, has recently been validated for use as an alternative to the aerobic plate count (ISO4833:2003).
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