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Recall roundup: protein powder, chicken products and sandwiches
Food and beverage products are recalled due to reasons ranging from contamination to incorrect labelling, and here is New Food’s roundup of the most recent cases.
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UK supermarkets urged to clarify public health commitments
The call from ShareAction comes after a report has revealed a lack of transparency and strategy regarding public health from 10 of the UK's top supermarket chains.
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Low-calorie sweeteners with carbohydrates impairs metabolism, says study
A study by Yale researchers has shown that people who drank beverages with low-calorie sweeteners and carbohydrates experienced problematic metabolic and neural responses.
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New Campylobacter insight demands food industry action
New research entailing whole genome sequencing of campylobacter strains suggests that it mutates, with consequences for both detection and control of the pathogen.
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Infections with foodborne bacteria becoming harder to treat, says report
According to the latest report from the EFSA and ECDC, Salmonella and Campylobacter are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, and EU member states have recorded increases in resistance to high concentrated antibiotics.
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Hovis research points to consumer confusion about fibre
Although the majority of surveyed adults could identify that fibre is important for health, the research revealed that UK consumers are often confused about how much fibre they should be consuming as well as how much they actually consume.
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Wales introduces Minimum Price for Alcohol law
Every year, alcohol leads to nearly 60,000 hospital admissions in Wales and costs NHS Wales an estimated £159 million, and the new law aims to see a reduction in these figures.
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Sugar content found to be most important factor when buying healthy
A team from the University of Nottingham's Division of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics carried out a choice-based survey with 858 participants using a traffic light labelling system (TLL) to select healthy foods, in order to determine health-related priorities.
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Recall roundup: noodles, caramel, cola, animal feed and cookie dough
Food and beverage products are recalled due to reasons ranging from contamination to incorrect labelling, and here is New Food’s roundup of the most recent cases.
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Edibles and drinkables lead Canadian cannabis market, research finds
Research from Mintel has suggested that, since its legalisation in late 2018, the cannabis market in Canada will boom in 2020, with edibles and drinkables becoming evermore popular.
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Diversifying with natural, alternative sweeteners
Elpida Gailani, Co-founder of Bonraw, explains how a shift in consumer attitude has allowed exploration into alternative sweetener sources, such as from the naturally sourced ingredient xylitol.
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Walnut consumption linked to health and longevity in women, says study
In this study, the researchers looked at data from 33,931 women in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) to evaluate the association between nut consumption and overall health and well-being in ageing.
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Study demonstrates safety of 3-Fucosyllactose as a nutritional ingredient
A recent Dupont safety assessment of the biotechnologically produced human milk oligosaccharide 3-Fucosyllactose (3-FL) has demonstrated the safe use for food and dietary supplements in infants.
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Sample Preparation and Chromatography Considerations in Food
This webinar will highlight sample preparation and chromatography contributions in LC-MS/MS workflows for PFAS and GenX compounds.
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FSA researchers more than double 2009 estimates of UK foodborne illnesses to 2.4m cases per year
The increase is said not to represent a rise in the number of people getting ill, but instead in the number of cases that can be attributed to food.
