All might not be well with control measures to prevent illness from the consumption of tainted spices in the US, that is the concern of the U.S. Food and drug administration (FDA) who have produced a Draft Risk Profile on Pathogens and Filth in Spices.
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.
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.
Some baby foods on sale in the UK aimed at children as young as 4 months (current recommendation is to start weaning at 6 months) do not meet infant weaning needs. That was the take home message in a paper published in the journal “Archives of Disease in Childhood” last…
When you hear about the damage that palm tree growing is doing in terms of farmers burning down the rainforests to plant large plantations you probably think, it’s ok, I don’t use palm oil. Well unfortunately you probably do, it is in many processed foods and you won’t see it…
Well, not exactly, but the heat treatment used before freezing is. As we reported back in April of this year and in 2011, broccoli has cancer fighting abilities in the form of sulforaphane which comes from the conversion of glucoraphanin with the enzyme myrosinase.
At lunch time today, Dr Mark Post from Maastricht University will cook and eat a burger. Ok, nothing special so far, except that the meat in this burger did not come direct from a cow. It has been grown in his lab from cow muscle stem cells and cost €250,000…
Don’t panic! It was a very small operation in Vietnam (the police seized 336 bottles) and has been shut down. But the operation itself reminds us that there is an ongoing fight against food fraud.
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