How important is it to eat breakfast? We’ve heard the saying “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” or perhaps the advice “skip breakfast and you’re more likely to put on weight because you will snack before lunch”. But how much is myth and how much is backed…
London of the 18th and 19th centuries was a very different place from today. Most food fraud cases in the UK today involve bulking out a product with a cheaper one such as the horse meat scandal, or the great basmati rice scam.
Phthalates have many uses, but the main use is as an additive to plastics to make them more flexible. However, as the phthalates are not bound to the plastic, they are released at an accelerating rate as the plastic breaks down. We are exposed to phthalates in the environment, and…
Just one day before a ban on soft drinks larger than 473ml (or 16 oz for the non-metric minded) was due to come into play in New York, a judge has ruled the proposed ban to be “arbitrary and capricious”.
Eating processed meat is the cause of 1 in 30 early deaths. That was the headline in English newspapers yesterday after a paper was published on the BMC medicine website.
Treating beef carcasses with lactic acid (or milk acid) has been used for a while in the US beef industry as a way of reducing the incidence of pathogenic organisms and the number of bacteria. Researchers from Colorado State University decided to test the effect of lactic acid treatment on…
Six infants died, 860 were hospitalised and approx 300,000 were affected by the melamine milk scandal in China in 2008.
Horse meat in our beef, that is the current food adulteration scandal and the list of companies that have had to remove items from sale after testing is growing daily. But this is not the first time we have found people trying to profit from bulking out one food item…
…when consumed at normal levels. Research published this week ahead of print on the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism’s website has found that consuming high fructose corn syrup or sugar at levels comparable to 90% of the population did not increase the level of fat in the liver or…
Findus Lasagnes has become the latest victim in the horse meat scandal, with in house tests detected more than 60% horse meat. Reported on the website of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, it has been recommended that all Findus frozen lasagnes are redrawn from sale. Tests are underway to…
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