Nestlé opens food safety research centre in Beijing

Nestlé has opened a food safety research centre in Beijing. The Nestle Food Safety Institute will work “closely” with Chinese authorities to help provide a “scientific foundation” for policy and standards, Nestlé said.
Support will include early management of food s...
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Un Consorcio Vasco Desarrollará Una Metodología Para Aprovechar El 70% De Los Restos Vegetales, Cárnicos Y Lácteos

El proyecto europeo GISWASTE tiene como objetivo establecer una metodología y una herramienta que priorice las opciones de valorización de subproductos orgánicos: restos vegetales, cárnicos y lácteos, principalmente. Se comprobará la validez del método con dos modelos reales de estudio: una pla...
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Studying crops, from outer space

This is an illustration of the process of measuring photosynthesis from space, courtesy of the Keck Institute for Space Studies. Credit: Keck Institute for Space Studies

Plants convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy during a process called photosynthesis. This energy is passed on...
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A Basque consortium will develop a method to recycle up to 70% of vegetable, meat and dairy waste

GISWASTE European project aims to establish a methodology and a tool that prioritizes recovery options of organic products: vegetables, meat and milk residues, mainly. The validity of the method with two real study models will be tested with a biogas plant and feed another.
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Bioenergy from sustainable forestry does not meet EU emission reduction criteria

The levels of forest residue bioenergy, considered to be sustainable from a forestry perspective, may provide considerable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in European countries. Still, these reductions fall short of a 60 % threshold planned by the EU. This mismatch may have important...
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Safe Development of Nanotechnology for Food and Food Packaging Investigated at Toxicology Conference

Toxicologists are presenting information on the uses of nanotechnology in food and food packaging and the current efforts to assure the safe development of the technology at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) 53rd Annual Meeting and ToxExpo in Phoenix, Ariz.
A number of food-related products in...
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Recovering valuable substances from wastewater

 
Using magnets the superparamagnetic particles in the water can be removed along with their phosphorus load. © Knut Dobberke / Fraunhofer ISC

Phosphorus can be found in fertilizers, drinks and detergents. It accumulates in waterways and pollutes them. For this reason the German ...
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Lots of carbon dioxide equivalents from aquatic environments

Large amounts of carbon dioxide equivalents taken up by plants on land are returned to the atmosphere from aquatic environments. This is the conclusions from a study carried out by two students at Linköping University, Sweden.
As students at the Master program Science for Sustainable ...
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Research Finds Soda Tax Does Little to Decrease Obesity

Extra sales taxes on soda may not do anything to improve people’s health, according to new research from health economist Jason Fletcher of the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“Some older studies suggest taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages will reduc...
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Kellys Sausage Roll Products Recalled

IRELAND – Various Kellys Sausage Roll products, sold in Aldi, have been recalled because the products contain sulphites and sulphur dioxide. Sulphites were not declared on the label of all batches of the sausage rolls listed above. This may make them unsafe for consumers who are allergic...
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UF/IFAS Finds Way to Reduce E. coli in Cows, Improving Food Safety

A new biological treatment could help dairy cattle stave off uterine diseases and eventually may help improve food safety for humans, a University of Florida study shows.
Kwang Cheol Jeong, an assistant professor in animal sciences and UF’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, examined cattle uterine ...
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Teagasc Research Automatic Milking Systems

In an automatic milking system a robot undertakes the manual work traditionally associated with milking a herd of cows. The system is set up to guide individual cows to come to a milking stall on a voluntarily basis on up to three occasions per day. A study is currently being conducted at...
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High-tech answer to fat analysis in meat industry

For decades, the meat industry has made good use of laboratory analysis. Now the focus is shifting to rapid analytical methods on the production floor and meat producers are perhaps spoilt for choice in terms of rapid analytical options. But which is the right solution for that all important...
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Pathogens in Cheese – Researchers Follow the Traces of Deadly Bacteria

Listeria is a rod-shaped bacterium highly prevalent in the environment and generally not a threat to human health.  One species however, Listeria monocytogenes, can cause listeriosis, a very dangerous disease. This pathogen can be present in raw milk and soft cheeses, smoked fish, raw meat and ...
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Cold short-cut to CO2 storage

Core participants in the “Cold CO2 Capture” project discuss their results. From the left; chief scientist Petter Nekså, research scientist Kristin Jordal and David Berstad, MSc, all of SINTEF Energy Research. Photo: SINTEF/Thor Nielsen

All over the world, scientists are on the hunt for solu...
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When air quality governs traffic management

Poor air quality costs Europe more than €700 million per year, in health expenditures and loss of economic performance, according to official EU sources. To tackle such major issue, the EU-funded MACC-II research project, due to be fully operational in 2014, aims at delivering accurate air qua...
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A Little Planning Helps Your Heart - and Your Budget

Convinced that eating a healthy diet will take a big bite out of your budget? Put the brakes on your next fast food trip, because food that comes through a window may be low in cost but high in fat and calories. And your health will pay the price!
“Many unhealthy foods are high in c...
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RASFF Food Alerts, Week 12

Here is the summary of food alerts issued by Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) last week
On 19/03/2014, too high count of Escherichia coli (1700 MPN/100g) was identified in organic mussels (Mytilus edulis) from Ireland. The product was distributed to France. RASFF reference No.:...
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Deep Ocean Current May Slow Due to Climate Change

Far beneath the surface of the ocean, deep currents act as conveyer belts, channeling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the globe.


A new study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Irina Marinov and Raffaele Bernardello and colleagues from McGill University has found that recent climate c...
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FSIS Educates Kids Food Safety

A core mission of The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is educating the public on proper food handling practices. The agency ensures that meat, poultry, and processed egg products are safe and wholesome. Recently, FSIS has implemented education food safety programmes for children....
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