EFSA proposes risk-benefit assessment of foods
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a guidance document on performing human health risk-benefit assessments for foods.
Archives for July 12, 2010
Synergy takes new approach to understand flavour components
Synergy is implementing a new analytical research function to analyse flavour components in foods, and understand their contribution to the overall flavour and sensory reception.
Innovate to interest post-recession consumers, says GMA
Consumer packaged goods companies need to change tactics as America emerges from recession, say the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Brand divestment and cost-cutting is out, innovation and targeting niche markets...
Ajinomoto and Kellogg’s team up on healthier cereals project
New product development and reformulation of Kellogg’s existing offering will be the focus of new R&D collaborative project between Ajinomoto and Kellogg’s.
Guiding principles launched to assess food’s environmental impact
The Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Round Table has formally adopted ten guiding principles to give a coherent way for assessing and communicating the environmental performance of food and drink products.
New analytical methods test for oil-tainted seafood after BP Gulf spill
Significantly reduced analysis time to aid fast and reliable throughput are benefits claimed by Thermo Fisher Scientific for two new analytical screening methods to detect oil contamination in fish and oysters.
Give FDA stronger food recall powers, urge US consumers
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should receive full powers immediately to recall food when it threatens health and safety, according to 80 percent of respondents in a telephone survey conducted by Consumers Union Poll.
‘Satisfying’ labels may beat ‘diet’ in curbing consumption
Manipulating our preconceptions on how filling we think food will be before we eat it may offer an interesting avenue in weight control, indicate new findings from the UK.
Former EFSA chief calls on UK to keep FSA
Abolishing the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) would be a backward step that could sacrifice the body’s independent science-based approach and push food policy formation back into the political arena, former EFSA chairman Professor Patrick Wall told...