Food Safety

Acrylamide, one year on

25-Apr-2003

Risk assessors from the German Federal Institute for Risk
Assessment (BfR) repeated their call for the levels of acrylamide
in foods to be reduced as far and as quickly as possible. Speaking
one year after the Swedish National Food...

Nutraceutical Clinical Laboratories gets 'superior' rating

19-Feb-2003

Nutraceutical Clinical Laboratories International, a preservative
and nutraceutical products company, today announced that its
NuPreserv manufacturing facility has received a 'superior' rating
from the American Institute...

GRAS for cholesterol-lowering ingredient

13-Feb-2003

Finnish company Teriaka has received GRAS status from the US FDA
for its cholesterol-lowering ingredient Diminicol. The award is
expected to strengthen the firm's position both in the US and other
functional food markets.

Codex discusses fats and oils

20-Nov-2002

In light of the 18th session of the Codex Committee on Fats and
Oils to be held in London, UK on 3-7 February 2003, the US
Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration said
this week that they are to sponsor a public...

Retailers urged to take greater role in food safety

09-Sep-2002

British consumers are increasingly concerned about food safety, but
the government's efforts to get the message across are falling
largely on deaf ears. Instead, food manufacturers and,
increasingly, retailers are being called...

Poor food hygiene targeted by new campaign

12-Feb-2002

The UK Food Standards Agency has launched a new nationwide campaign
to tackle what it claims are inadequate hygiene standards in
catering businesses across the country.

Food Irradiation raises safety questions

05-Dec-2001

The controversy surrounding food irradiation continues this week in
the US with a declaration from the Centre for Food Safety that the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ignored growing
evidence.

DMV USA opens state-of-the-art lactoferrin plant

26-Oct-2001

Food technology company aLF Ventures, LLC, a partnership between
Farmland National Beef Packing Company L.P. and ingredients
specialists DMV USA, this week opened N-terminus, a new
multi-million dollar food safety research and development...