Salt Awareness Week Launched

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is encouraging people to discover the benefits of reducing salt in their diet during National Salt Awareness Week.
The theme for this year’s awareness week (10-16 March) is “Switch the Salt” and highlights how eating less salt can lower blood pressure, a condi...
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Laguna Nourriture Flottante En Sticks Recalled

FRANCE – Laguna Nourriture Flottante En Sticks (Laguna Food Sticks) have been recalled because elevated levels of cobalt have been detected in the product. Therefore the product may pose a health risk.  Cobalt is a trace element that forms part of the structure of vitamin B12, one of the B ...
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Human Activity Influences Beach Bacterial Diversity

High beach bacterial diversity may contribute to less water contamination


Human activity influences ocean beach bacterial communities, and bacterial diversity may indicate greater ecological health and resiliency to sewage contamination, according to results published in the open access...
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EFSA Updates Its Analysis Of Arsenic Occurrence In Food

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has updated its analysis of the occurrence of arsenic in food in Europe. The analysis includes around 3,000 data samples on inorganic arsenic, which is more toxic than organic compounds. The Authority’s data specialists have also refined their e...
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Spring Allergies On The Rise?

Several factors determine the severity of allergy season


The spring 2014 allergy season could be the worst yet, or at least that is what you might hear. Every year is coined as being the worst for allergy sufferers, but are spring allergies really on the rise?
“A number of factors, such as we...
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New Insights Into Ancient Pacific Settlers' Diet

Researchers from New Zealand’s University of Otago studying 3000-year-old skeletons from the oldest known cemetery in the Pacific Islands are casting new light on the diet and lives of the enigmatic Lapita people, the likely ancestors of Polynesians.
Their results—obtained from analysing ...
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UK and China Agree New Low Carbon Innovation Programme

A new £20 million three-year programme that will support research to develop new low carbon manufacturing processes and technologies, low carbon cities and offshore renewables in the UK and China was agreed on Wednesday 5th  March 2014.
Representatives from the National Natural Science Fo...
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Eating Red And Processed Meat Linked To Gut Cancer

Recent perspective paper in Meat Science cautions about uncertainties in scientific evidence


Recent reports warn about a link between eating red and processed meat and the risk of developing cancer in the gut. These reports have resulted in new nutritional recommendations that advise people to...
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New Poll Examines Consumer Confusion Over Grocery Labels

Ever stood in the aisle of a grocery store completely overwhelmed by the claims jumping out from the labels? You may not be alone. Health advocacy groups have long decried America’s nutrition labeling system as misleading, confusing and, ultimately, inaccurate, and the FDA recently...
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Diet Rich In Animal Proteins May Be As Bad For You As Smoking

That chicken wing you’re eating could be as deadly as a cigarette.


In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than...
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Turn Old Milk Jugs Into 3D Printer Filament

Making your own stuff with a 3D printer is vastly cheaper than what you’d pay for manufactured goods, even factoring in the cost of buying the plastic filament.
Yet, you can drive the cost down even more by making your own filament from old milk jugs. And, while you are patting yourself on the ...
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Hop Leaves Could Fight Dental Diseases

Beer drinkers know that hops are what gives the drink its bitterness and aroma. Recently, scientists reported that the part of hops that isn’t used for making beer contains healthful antioxidants and could be used to battle cavities and gum disease. In a new study in ACS’ Journal ...
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Stricter Controls Of Wastewater Reuse On Crops Needed To Meet WHO Guidelines

Wastewater used to irrigate agricultural crops in countries where water is scarce may contribute to significant public health risks such as diarrheal disease in children from rotavirus. A new study of these risks found that wastewater used to irrigate vegetable plots in Asian countries poses...
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New Technique Allows Frequent Water Quality Monitoring For Suite of Pollutants

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that uses existing technology to allow researchers and natural resource managers to collect significantly more information on water quality to better inform policy decisions.
“Right now, incomplete or infrequent w...
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Banana Plant Fights Off Roundworms

The banana variety Yangambi km5 produces toxic substances that kill the nematode Radopholus similis, a roundworm that infects the root tissue of banana plants – to the frustration of farmers worldwide. The finding by an international team of researchers that includes professors Rony Swennen a...
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Beet Juice, A Solution For Icy Roads

Beet juice is currently used as a supplement by public works to reduce ice accumulation on roads. Many towns are running low on road salt, while other towns are concerned about the harmful effects of salt accumulating in soil and waterways.
Salt lowers the freezing/melting temperature of ice....
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Regardless Of Where You Live Allergy Prevalence Is the Same

In the largest, most comprehensive, nationwide study to examine the prevalence of allergies from early childhood to old age, scientists from the National Institutes of Health report that allergy prevalence is the same across different regions of the United States, except in children 5 years...
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Global Food Security Expert To Become Chief Scientific Adviser To FSA

Professor Guy Poppy, one of the UK’s leading experts on food systems and food security, has been appointed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as its Chief Scientific Adviser.
Professor Poppy will take up his part-time role with the FSA in August this year. He will continue with his research in g...
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Remote Sensing Moisture Model Could Aid Farmers

Global farmers could get better decision-making help as refinements are made to North Alabama soil moisture modeling research being done by an atmospheric science doctoral student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
The models indicate how much added moisture would be needed in a...
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Bath Products Pollute The Great Lakes

Following the introduction of legislation to ban the sale of products containing plastic microbeads in New York State, Motoko Mukai, a veterinarian and toxicologist at Cornell University comments on the negative impact the tiny plastic pellets, found in many bath products, have on the Great...
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