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DuPont Nutrition & Health to collaborate with AvidBiotics on food protection technologies
24 September 2012 | By DuPont
Novel proteins attack unwanted bacteria for improved food safety, quality and shelf-life...
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Packaged chillers with ammonia as a refrigerant: the natural choice
6 September 2012 | By René van Gerwen, Global Lead Engineer Refrigeration & HVAC, Unilever Engineering Services
Industrial chillers for the supply of chilled water, cold glycol or brine, are frequently used over a long time, and have become even more attractive for several applications to replace direct refrigeration systems. Greenhouse gas footprint and lifecycle costs of ownership of industrial chillers can be significantly reduced by using…
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Innovative freezing technologies for foods
6 September 2012 | By Stephen J. James & Christian James, Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
Freezing is a well-established food preservation process that produces high quality nutritious foods that offer the advantage of a long storage life. However, freezing is not suitable for all foods and freezing does cause physical and chemical changes in many foods that are perceived as reducing the quality of the…
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New thoughts on a time-tested technology: milk pasteurisation
5 September 2012 | By Daina Ringus and Kathryn Boor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Food Science Department, Cornell University
The commercial adoption of milk pasteurisation was a major boon for urban public health in the first half of the 20th century. Before the widespread use of pasteurisation, the proliferation of diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis among humans was frequently linked with consumption of unpasteurised (raw) milk15. Pasteurisation…
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Hygienic design of pumps: an EHEDG perspective
5 September 2012 | By Maxime Chevalier, EHEDG Member
Historically, maintaining the hygiene of a food process required a complete or partial disassembly and manual cleaning of every component (Cleaning out of Place: COP). The 1950’s saw the development of a method to clean the equipment without dismantling (Cleaning in Place: CIP) with the benefit of better repeatability, reduced…
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A perspective on labelling and consumer understanding
5 September 2012 | By Grethe Humbert, Dominique Taeymans, Gupta Himanshu and Philippe Pittet, Nestlé
This article presents a perspective on food additives, how consumers understand them and their labelling. It also highlights the evolution of consumer information obligations and expectations in the light of new EU Regulations. There are likely to be many reasons why con - sumers consult food labels and the reasons…
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EU FP7 Veg-i-Trade investigates pre and post-harvest practices influencing microbial quality and safety of leafy greens
5 September 2012 | By Maria I. Gil, Ana Allende and Maria V. Selma, Research Group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, CEBAS-CSIC and Mieke Uyttendaele, Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation, Ghent University
Fresh leafy vegetables (e.g. lettuce, spinach, escarole, cabbage and other baby leaves used in salad mixes) are an important part of a healthy diet. Global consumption levels are expected to increase in the future. However, due to recent disease outbreaks and rapid alerts attributed to fresh produce, concerns have emerged…
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Food Grade Lubricants Supplement 2012
5 September 2012 | By Andre Adam, Pete Martin
H1 food lubricants in the industry (Andre Adam, H1 Global Food Lubricants Workgroup Chair, ELGI3)The new Food Information Regulation – what impact will it have on your business? (Pete Martin, Head of Trading Law (EMEA) NSF International)
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International workshop recommends further E.coli research
29 August 2012 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)
The FSA has published a report identifying key knowledge gaps and recommending areas for future research on EHEC...
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Listeria in the city of Vaasa and Eastern Finland – source of the outbreak is under investigation
8 August 2012 | By Evira
Ten listeria cases were detected among patients with febrile diarrhoea....
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The wider uses of traceability information
4 July 2012 | By Kathryn A-M Donnelly, Nofima – Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research
Although traceability is often associated with food safety, increasingly the tools provided by a traceability system are being used for much more than food safety. The research carried out into traceability, initially spurred on by concerns over food safety, has expanded to include a wide range of different aspects of…
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UHT processing of milk
Milk is a highly perishable food so to enable it to be stored and distributed for consumption without spoilage, and without being a health risk through growth of pathogenic bacteria, it is heat treated. The most common type of heat treatment in many parts of the world is pasteurisation, which…
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Microbial food spoilage: A major concern for food business operators
3 July 2012 | By François Bourdichon and Katia Rouzeau, Food Safety Microbiology, Quality and Safety Department, Nestlé Research Centre
‘Something is fishy’ is a widely used expression over a doubtful, suspicious situation, a good example of how mankind has taken advantage of microbial spoilage to assess the wholesomeness of a food product. The reduction of trimethylamine oxide to trimethylamine by bacteria associated primarily with the marine environment (e.g. Alteromonas…
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Microbial biofilms – a concern for industry?
3 July 2012 | By Dr Evangelia Komitopoulou, Head of Food Safety, Leatherhead Food Research
Many bacteria are able to attach to and colonise environmental surfaces by producing a biofilm, which allows the organisms to persist in the environment and resist desiccation, UV light and treatment with antimicrobials and sanitising agents. Biofilms are formed when microbes attach to a solid support and to each other…
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Conveyor belts in EHEDG focus
3 July 2012 | By Olaf Heide, EHEDG Member
Food conveyor belts can be found in literally every industrial food process. Looking at them as a single item, belts may be just simple components made from steel, fabric or plastic. But they are actually quite important to ensure a smooth and trouble-free process flow. This article focuses on the…
