Coca-cola and Pepsi have modified their recipes to avoid having to display a warning that a chemical in the drink could cause cancer. 4-MI, the chemical in question, present in caramel colourings E150c and E150d, has been shown to cause cancer in rats, albeit with very high doses (equivalent to…
Last year, 134 people were arrested in east China’s Shandong province for producing or selling waste food oil as cooking oil. Known as Gutter oil, the name is well deserved as some of the oil is acquired by dredging the drains behind restaurants. China’s food safety authority started a crack…
Pork is off the menu for Chinese athletes. Clenbuterol, a banned performance enhancing drug, has been found in pork reared especially for the Chinese athletes. That was the message posted on the microblog of Huang Wenyi, a Chinese athlete training for the 2012 London Olympics.
The additive QuantumTM is an enzyme preparation produced by fermentation of a genetically modified strain of the yeast Pichia pastoris. It is used for chickens and laying hens, turkeys, ducks and piglets (weaned) for fattening. The reduction of the minimum recommended dose from 1000 FTU/kg to 500 FTU/kg was investigated.
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If you want your children to eat more vegetables then reward them with little stickers. That is the findings of Remington et al. published ahead of print on the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) website last week.
Ever wondered what fish species make up the “fish meat” content of your crab sticks? A team from Biofortis, France have developed a method using Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (DHPLC) to do just that. Unlike protein based methods used to identify fish, DHPLC uses DNA which is more robust than…
Dr. Charlotte Hardman and colleagues at the University of Bristol have found that children expect their hunger to be satisfied with smaller portions of high energy snacks they know compared to snacks they are unfamiliar with.
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