Tech turns smartphones into detectors for foodborne illnesses
Researchers have developed detection technology that allows a typical smartphone to analyse produce for deadly foodborne pathogens.
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Researchers have developed detection technology that allows a typical smartphone to analyse produce for deadly foodborne pathogens.
Trees falling as fragile forests become cropland is a visual shorthand for the environmental costs exporting countries pay to meet lucrative global demands for food. But a new study reveals another counter-intuitive possibility: importing food also damages homeland ecology.
The WHO and not-for-profit organisation Resolve to Save Lives have teamed up to build a scheme for governments to use to tackle industrially-produced trans fats.
Government of Canada is aiming at growing its global agriculture and food exports to $75 billion by 2025.
The latest statistics bring the total reduction in two years to more than 50 per cent.
Food businesses can secure the funding by creating more nutritious and affordable gluten free food. This could include using novel ingredients, creating foods with improved nutrient profiles and desired flavour texture characteristics, and working with new methods of preservation.
Over a third of small abattoirs have closed in the past decade, and a further 10 per cent have already closed this year, or are about to close.
A report shows how top brands in the UK are working to make their products healthier through reformulation, portion control and offering alternatives.
Other recalls over the last week include Mary Berry's salad dressing and Remeo Gelato's Stracciatella Di Bergamo gelato.
The study comes amidst debate over post-Brexit trade agreements and the possibility of countries insisting the UK import their chlorine-treated foodstuffs.
The list of issues includes the quantity of production used in market price support calculations, the exclusion of state-level bonuses from calculations of applied administered prices, exclusion from India’s notifications of information on the total value of production (VoP) of wheat and rice (information necessary to assess compliance with WTO…
Australia and New Zealand have followed Europe into mandatory allergen labelling for lupin, a legume related to peanuts and commonly used in gluten-free products.
More than 44,000 responses have been received on the Government’s proposals for the future for food, farming and the environment after Brexit.
The suit filed against 90 coffee companies said they were violating a state law requiring them to list chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
The committee urged the Government to publish exactly what customs and border requirements it would put in place on EU food imports in a no-deal scenario.