Search Results for: food

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIAN microbiologist Michelle Bull is helping to pioneer the processing of orange juice at high pressure. Bull, from Food Science Australia, said the system means microbes such as yeast, bacteria and mould are “squeezed to death” extending the life of the product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SPECIAL WTO rules of origin committee has recommended global regulations stating whether food manufacturing processes are important enough for the processed ingredient or product to be legally a new product, made in the manufacturing country, not where its raw materials were sourced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE is being threatened with legal action by the European Commission because of its failure to scrap a law insisting that labels on foodstuffs imported into France must be written in the French language. Brussels says this breaks EU free trade rules.…

BY PHILIP FINE

An American company that normally supplies its breeding services to

livestock producers has been developing a sideline serving the

pharmaceutical industry. Its leap into biotech could offer a

glimpse of how the meat and livestock trade might discover some future

crossover

business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on meat, dairy products and molluscs as part of a new package of hygiene measures that are designed to step up food safety. These would insist upon a scientific approach to meat inspection, which Brussels said would protect consumers from hazards linked to the consumption of meat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW European Union labelling rules have been set by the European Commission insisting that food and drink products sold in the EU containing caffeine or quinine must list these ingredients on their packaging. Labels would also have to declare any high caffeine content in products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WE all want to eat safely, which is why governments pass laws to ensure that all food sold measures up to minimum standards of purity and quality. But this can be taken too far. If the safety lines are drawn too tightly or in an arbitrary way, they can be a barrier to imports and thus an impediment to free trade.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on meat as part of a new package of hygiene measures designed to step up food safety in the EU. These would implement a science-based approach to meat inspection, which Brussels said would protect the consumer from all main hazards linked to the consumption of meat.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
THE Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has claimed a boost in the number of Improvement Notices is helping it win its battle against the country’s unhygienic takeaways, cafes and restaurants.

The FSAI said that just fourteen Republic food outlets were closed down in the first six months of the year, ten less than in the same period last year and its food safety officials say the reason is an increase in the number of these Notices it has issued to proprietors.…

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Y KEITH NUTHALL
US scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that the mere sight or smell of food spikes levels of a brain “pleasure” chemical called dopamine.…