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16 June 2015 | By Victoria White
University of Delaware researchers have discovered a soil microbe that mobilises an "iron shield" to block the uptake of toxic arsenic in rice...
15 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Campden BRI has been awarded a contract by the RPA to provide analytical testing services, including testing olive oil to ensure grading is correct...
4 June 2015 | By iNLABTEC AG
iNLABTEC AG reports on how they have helped an accredited certification body for the German feed, agro and food industry to improve microbiological analysis productivity by simplification and acceleration of routine processes...
13 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) have established how clostridia bacteria emerge from clostridium spores...
23 April 2015 | By Claudio Luchinat and Claudio Santucci, CERM (Magnetic Resonance Center), University of Florence and Leonardo Tenori, FiorGen Foundation
Metabolites are the final products of cellular activities and their levels in a living organism can change according to genetic or environmental factors. The set of metabolites synthesised by a biological system is called ‘metabolome’1. Metabolomics is a further ‘omics’ discipline which deals with the analysis of metabolic responses of living systems…
9 February 2015 | By Eurofins
As part of an investment programme in its microbiology department, Eurofins Food Testing UK has launched a new two year scheme exclusively for Microbiology Undergraduates at the University of Wolverhampton, designed to develop food scientists of the future...
In this issue: Beverage Processing, Food Fraud, Contaminants, Microbiology, High Pressure Processing, Listeria, Extrusion, Viscosity, Chocolate Processing, plus much more...
27 October 2014 | By François Bourdichon, Corporate Food Safety, Microbiology and Hygiene Manager, Barry Callebaut
Following the food scandals of the late-1980s and early-1990s, and the increasing knowledge on foodborne and waterborne pathogen, the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) was put in place in 1995 to set the framework of all measures taken by a World Trade Organisation (WTO) member…
2 September 2014 | By François Bourdichon, Elke de Moor, Cécile Vadier, Adrianne Klijn, Paul in 't Veld, Daniele Sohier, Roy Betts, Philip Feldsine
Featuring an article on microbiology method validation which questions whether alternative methods are as good as the reference method, and an article from Barry Callebaut on defining one’s need to use the most relevant tool...
1 September 2014 | By Campden BRI
There have been a number of food safety incidents in recent years involving pathogens such as Salmonella, which have been found on low moisture foods such as nuts and seeds...
23 June 2014 | By Mickaël Boyer and Jing Geng, Danone Nutricia Research
Today’s consumers have greater expectations than ever before regarding food. They expect not only safe, good quality and value-based products but also a real commitment of the food company toward social responsibility to the community, e.g. regarding nutritional education, sustainable development and adaptation to local geographical specifications. Those expectations are…
Randox Food Diagnostics develop and manufacture a range of cost effective screening solutions for drug residue diagnostics offering excellent tools for screening of antimicrobials, growth promoting hormones and drugs of abuse in animals and foodstuff.
20 May 2014 | By Merck
Merck Millipore announced that Bonnie Bassler, Ph.D., Squibb Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, has won the 2014 Merck Millipore Alice C. Evans Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology...
Back-tracing environmental toxicants in an animal-derived food chain based on food metabolomics Detecting bacteria in food: harder than searching for a needle in a haystack? Rapid detection methods for chemical hazards in foods Mass spectrometry for the food industry
18 November 2013 | By European Food Safety Authority
In recognition of European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November, EFSA has produced an infographic which highlights the issue of antimicrobial resistance and how EFSA is working with other EU agencies to combat the problem...
