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30 March 2016 | By Victoria White
A study has shown that oral administration of virgin coconut oil effectively reduced formalin-induced paw oedema in mice with more or less similar efficacy as that of diclofenac...
7 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers found that men and women with higher linoleic acid levels tended to have less heart-threatening fat nestled between their vital organs, more lean body mass and less inflammation.
3 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Barry Callebaut has switched the production of two of its most popular fillings from RSPO mass balance to RSPO fully segregated palm products as of January 2016...
In this issue: Fats & Oils, Water Quality, Food Grade Lubricants, Infant Nutrition, Pasta Processing, Regulation, Food Analysis, Fish Processing, Clean Label, NIR, and much more...
22 February 2016 | By Emma Woods, Technical Manager, Phoenix Speciality Oils
The rise in popularity of cold pressed coconut oil has been one of the UK food industry’s great recent success stories. However this food oil, and the manufacturing challenges it presents, are unlike any other.
22 February 2016 | By Dimitra Tsantaki, International Commercial Litigation and Food lawyer, Tsantaki, Michalinos & Tsalmanis Law Firm / Georgios Siragakis, Technical Director of Food Allergens Labs Group
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated nearly 3,000 ‘general function’ claims and more than 250 other applications over the past few years. In the list of health claims which has been made on foods, as referred to in Article 13 (3) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, a health…
12 February 2016 | By Victoria White
The announcement follows Andean Grain’s recent approval under European Union Novel Food regulations to legally market chia oil within Europe...
26 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The EP Trade Committee has backed the proposed emergency measure to import 70,000 tonnes of olive oil duty free to help boost the Tunisian economy following last year's terrorist attacks in the country...
8 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Following the US Food and Drug Administration’s 2015 ruling on partially hydrogenated oils (PHO), Cargill is offering bread manufacturers its lecithin products as a successful replacement for monoglycerides and DATEM...
10 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Olenex was established in 2012 as a partnership between Archer Daniels Midland Company and Wilmar International Limited for the sale and marketing of refined vegetable oils and fats...
1 December 2015 | By NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH
In everyday practice in the foodstuff industry high demands on hygienic processing are required for the primarily sensitive product, simultaneously, there is the high pressure of competition and efficiency...
26 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Dawn Foods has secured Mass Balance certification to verify that it sources and uses only RSPO certified palm oil across all of its European production sites...
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Since October 2013, a strain of this bacterium is spreading in Apulia (Italy) in its ancient olive groves. The region provides much of the country’s olive oil exports to the world...
16 November 2015 | By Exxon Mobil
Food grade hydraulic oil can help reduce the energy consumption of equipment by up to 3.5 percent...
13 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Mérieux NutriSciences’ 63-parameter state-of-the art method allows testers to identify if the bottled product is of extra virgin quality and, the company says, is next-to-impossible to be tricked...
