Following on from the last blog another obesity one for you. This time scientists have looked at obesity rates in men and women in developed and developing nations and have come to a worrying conclusion. Endocrine disrupters that mimic female hormones could be increasing the obesity rates in men.
Just because the same equipment was used for mincing one type of meat and then another, for example, beef and then lamb, does not mean there should be any detectable beef in the lamb.
Yes, confusing as that sounds, a Japanese company has made a request to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK to market a synthetic version of dihydrocapsiate, a non spicy component found in chilli peppers, as a food supplement.
Marinating pork in beer before cooking it on the bar-b-q lowers the amount of potentially cancer causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) compared to unmarinated pork.
The company Kraft foods has issued a recall in the US of approx. 96,000 pounds (that’s over 43,500 kg) of wieners as they could contain undeclared milk.
A dire warning from UK food inspectors that unfit meat may enter the food chain if changes to abattoir inspections proposed by Brussels go through.
Rodney Whitchelo, a former Scotland yard detective caused Heinz to remove over £30 million worth of baby food from supermarket shelves back in 1989 in the UK after contaminating some of it with glass shards and razor blades.
The horse meat scandal, over one year has passed and what has changed? Well, in terms of what local authorities can do about it not enough, that is according to Rod Ainsworth of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), UK.
If you want to estimate how much methylmercury is present in marine animals look to the water, not the sediment to do it. That was the findings of a paper published earlier this week in the journal PLOS one.
Despite the horse meat scandal and the increase in food testing that consumers assumed would be taking place it would appear food fraud in the UK is still rife.
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