Using ultrasound to check the crystallisation of chocolate
6 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have discovered that it is possible to detect differences in the crystallisation of cocoa butter with ultrasonic waves...
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The Food Safety Conference – Risks, Threats & Vulnerabilities
6 June 2016 | By Food Safety Conference
Where are tomorrow's food and drink safety threats, recalls, and outbreaks going to appear?
Red algae could help fight food allergies
6 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists from Jimei University have found that a type of commercial red algae, Gracilaria lemaneiformis, could help counteract food allergies...
New certified reference materials to detect enterotoxin A in cheese
6 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The EC's Joint Research Council has developed and released the first certified reference materials for testing whether enterotoxin A is present in cheese...
Anheuser-Busch and Starbucks to launch Teavana RTD tea in the US
3 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Anheuser-Busch and Starbucks are working together to produce, bottle, distribute and market the first Teavana Ready-to-Drink (RTD) tea in the US...
Unilever to sell AdeS soy beverage business to Coca Cola
3 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Unilever is to sell the AdeS soy beverage business in Latin America for an aggregate amount of US$ 575 million...
E. coli outbreak prompts General Mills to issue flour recall
3 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
General Mills has voluntarily recalled ten million pounds of flour in the US as it may be linked to an outbreak of E. coli O121...
GRAS No Objection Letter for Cargill’s EverSweet stevia sweetener
2 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a GRAS (generally recognised as safe) No Objection Letter, for Cargill’s EverSweet...
Edme taps into the talent of young food scientists
2 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Edme recently offered a Nottingham University Food Science student, James Huscroft, the opportunity to get involved in the process validation for WholeSoft....
New technique detects harmful contaminants in seafood
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The new technique allows monitoring of levels of toxic compounds like brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in seafood such as tuna and prawns...
FDA issues draft voluntary guidance for sodium for the food industry
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The US FDA has issued draft guidance for public comment that provides practical, voluntary sodium reduction targets for the food industry...
Scientists call for a beverage hydration index
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists are calling for the creation of a beverage hydration index to help people understand how different drinks can keep you hydrated...
Heineken signs joint venture agreement with Asia Brewery Inc.
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Heineken has signed a joint venture agreement with Asia Brewery Incorporated to form a new joint venture company, AB Heineken Philippines Inc...
TaxPayers’ Alliance calls for government to abandon the sugar tax
1 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The TPA says that new research reveals the sugar tax is entirely arbitrary and has little to do with the sugar content of the products it affects...
Praise for the white stuff as we celebrate World Milk Day
1 June 2016 | By Mandy Parrett, Editorial Assistant
Today more than 30 countries across the globe will raise a tumbler to the dairy industry in celebration of World Milk Day.
