The first case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in poultry in the UK has been found in turkey and chicken from a farm in East Anglia. According to the report on the BBC’s website some meat has already been sold to consumers and the farmer is cooperating with the Department…
Don’t panic! We are, of course, referring to the English Doomsday book of 1086 that recorded a great survey of livestock numbers and landowners wealth for William the Conqueror (and not news of doom and gloom). That’s right, the current state of European honeybee keeping (and Kosovo and Norway) has…
We all know by now that omega oils are meant to be good for us. These are found in fish and in plants. But whereas omega 3 have been shown to have health benefits the same should not be said for omega 6. That is according to a publication in…
Together with Koppert Cress, QFOOD presented the new LUMOS test for Carotene and Lycopene at the „Voedingsdebat 2013„. Fruit and vegetable cultivators as well as producers and traders were the first to get an impression of this quick, simple and reliable test for in-house analysis. A press statement can be…
The Q·FOOD QUANTOS can determine all relevant ingredients, such as sugar, vitamin C, preservatives, taurine and caffeine – in a single measurement within minutes. Despite its simplicity, Q·FOOD QUANTOS is just as accurate as sophisticated laboratory analysis. But it boasts an unbeatable advantage: production workers can take measurements on the…
In wake of the (yes, you guessed it,) horse meat scandal a draft report has published this week by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament starts to deal with the problem of food fraud in the EU.
Research to be published in the November edition of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) has found that taking calcium carbonate while eating cured meat could help reduce your chance of colon cancer.
Another story of food fortification or „enrichment“ for you, researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have been turning pasta very green by fortifying it with broccoli powder(BP).
On the 24th October at 3pm, the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the current Lithuanian EU presidency have joined forces to bring us an event entitled „Food safety, risk and modern supply networks“ at the Lithuanian Embassy in London.
Seafood appears not to be such a contributor to mercury in the blood as previously thought.


