E. coli outbreak prompts General Mills to issue flour recall
3 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
General Mills has voluntarily recalled ten million pounds of flour in the US as it may be linked to an outbreak of E. coli O121...
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GRAS No Objection Letter for Cargill’s EverSweet stevia sweetener
2 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a GRAS (generally recognised as safe) No Objection Letter, for Cargill’s EverSweet...
Edme taps into the talent of young food scientists
2 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Edme recently offered a Nottingham University Food Science student, James Huscroft, the opportunity to get involved in the process validation for WholeSoft....
New technique detects harmful contaminants in seafood
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The new technique allows monitoring of levels of toxic compounds like brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in seafood such as tuna and prawns...
FDA issues draft voluntary guidance for sodium for the food industry
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The US FDA has issued draft guidance for public comment that provides practical, voluntary sodium reduction targets for the food industry...
Scientists call for a beverage hydration index
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists are calling for the creation of a beverage hydration index to help people understand how different drinks can keep you hydrated...
Heineken signs joint venture agreement with Asia Brewery Inc.
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Heineken has signed a joint venture agreement with Asia Brewery Incorporated to form a new joint venture company, AB Heineken Philippines Inc...
TaxPayers’ Alliance calls for government to abandon the sugar tax
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The TPA says that new research reveals the sugar tax is entirely arbitrary and has little to do with the sugar content of the products it affects...
Praise for the white stuff as we celebrate World Milk Day
1 June 2016 | By Mandy Parrett, Editorial Assistant
Today more than 30 countries across the globe will raise a tumbler to the dairy industry in celebration of World Milk Day.
Vitafoods Europe breaks visitor records in its 20th year
31 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Vitafoods Europe 2016 attendance reached an all-time high with a total of 17,666 visitors through its doors – an increase of 13% over last year...
Müller Milk & Ingredients to invest £15m in its Bellshill dairy
31 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Müller Milk & Ingredients is to invest £15m in its dairy at Bellshill to create Scotland’s fresh milk and ingredients centre of excellence...
Acid whey offers “enormous potential”, says Arla Foods Ingredients
31 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Many dairy companies are yet to realise that their acid whey is a valuable raw material, according to Arla Foods Ingredients...
FDA finalises new intentional adulteration rule
31 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The new rule requires companies in the US and abroad to take steps to prevent intentional adulteration of the food supply...
ICL and Nestlé enter nutrition research collaboration
27 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The collaboration will focus on nutritional science, and will initially aim to gain a greater understanding of the microbiome...
Investigating the potential of HPT for safeguarding food
27 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Highly resistant fresh food could be achieved, according to encouraging results from ongoing studies that combine high pressure with temperature (HPT)...
