Public Health England launches Sugar Smart app
5 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The Sugar Smart app works by scanning the barcode of products and revealing the amount of total sugar it contains in cubes and grams...
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5 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The Sugar Smart app works by scanning the barcode of products and revealing the amount of total sugar it contains in cubes and grams...
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
In a recent study prompted by an increased number of outbreaks in the US of foodborne diseases linked to dry foods, pathogens, like salmonella, were found to survive for at least six months in biscuits, cookies and crackers...
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The latest annual report by EFSA and ECDC has found that human cases of listeriosis and campylobacteriosis rose once again in 2014, continuing an upward trend that began in 2008...
21 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Digital package printing and flexible hybrid packaging are among the six key trends set to impact the global packaging markets in 2016...
17 December 2015 | By Victoria White
General Mills has met or exceeded its goal to reduce sodium by 20% in seven of ten US retail product categories, with reductions across the 10 categories ranging from 18 to 35 percent...
15 December 2015 | By Engilico
After the successful integration of its first SealScope™ inspection system on a horizontal flow pack line in 2014, Hazeleger Cheese* decided to install the SealScope™ technology on a second packaging line...
15 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Food safety specialists Acoura believe that the risk of superbug infection from British red meat is extremely low due to the limited use of antibiotics in the supply chain...
14 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The campaign uses tongue-in-cheek humour to get the food safety message across, featuring Santa Claus stricken by a bout of food poisoning...
9 December 2015 | By New Food
In this issue: Allergens, Confectionery supplement, Food Fraud, Mass Spectrometry, Microbiology, Dairy Supplement, Food Contamination roundtable, Shelf Life, Energy Efficiency, Application Notes...
9 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The proposed revised goals are to reduce sugar to 5% of total energy, increase dietary fibre intake to 30g per day, and to maintain total carbohydrate at 50% of total energy with no more than 5% total energy from sugar...
9 December 2015 | By New Food
Articles in this Confectionery supplement: Nutritional trends in cocoa beverages, Sugar: does it have to be the bad guy? Plus a preview of ProSweets Cologne 2016...
9 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India approved the use of steviol glycosides as a non-nutritive sweetener last month and WFSI is ready with its stevia solutions...
9 December 2015 | By René Crevel, Unilever Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre, Bedford, UK
Managing allergens in a manner that minimises the risk to allergic consumers while maximising their choices, as well as ensuring the overall sustainability of food production processes remains the subject of considerable work. The last three years have witnessed developments in areas as diverse as regulation, hazard characterisation and risk…
9 December 2015 | By Matteo Capocefalo, Laboratory Manager, ALcontrol Laboratories, UK / K. Clive Thompson, Chief Scientist, ALcontrol Laboratories, UK / J. Andrew Hudson, Head Microbiologist, Fera Science Limited, UK
Listeriosis remains a prominent foodborne disease, not because of the number of cases but because of the high case fatality rate. In recent years the foods involved in outbreaks of listeriosis seem to have diversified and the demographics of cases show a distinct trend. Testing for the organism in food…
4 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Almost one third of all deaths from foodborne diseases are in children under the age of 5 years, finds a World Health Organization report...