The Food Standards Agency’s shellfish monitoring programme has successfully completed a move away from tests using mice for the detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and lipophilic toxins in commercially harvested shellfish.
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Keeping track of what we eat and choosing healthier foods could be made easier thanks to a consultation launched today on front-of-pack (FoP) nutrition labelling by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in both Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from high winds, snow, or ice could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and…
Too much milk fat in your diet can lead to colitis. That is the findings of a paper published ahead of print on the Nature website by a group from the Gastroenterology Section of the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.
Vitamin E can help prevent cancer, but are you taking the right one? That’s the worrying message published by researchers from the State University of New Jersey and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
Scientists reported in Nature Magazine that fungal diseases of the world’s five most important crops – rice, wheat, maize, potatoes and soy-beans destroy more than 125 million tons of these foods only. This loss of food is especially dramatic for poor people that are dependent on these foods for their…
Multi-vitamin fruit juices are the 3rd favourite type of juice in Germany with a market share of 9%. Some people drink it for the health benefits, some for the taste of exotic fruit but a damning report from Stiftung Warentest says neither group are getting what they think they are…
Zapping tomatoes with pulsed electric fields increases concentrations of bioactive compounds (total polyphenols, lycopene, and vitamin C content). That is the message in the paper published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry by researchers from the University of Barcelona, Instituto de Salud Carlos III and the University of…
Grapefruit juice and fresh grapefruit are healthy as they have vitamin C and potassium. But they can interfere with the action of some prescription drugs, as well as a few non-prescription drugs. This interaction can be dangerous, says Shiew Mei Huang, acting director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office…
There are several ways to become a vegetarian. Most likely, it is about the welfare of animals. Over 950 Million land animals are slaughtered per year in the UK, and livestock farming is no matter for “sensitive” natures.