Advances in the use of LC/MS/MS for the Analysis of Antibiotics in Food
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A prototype of electronic-paper could be the future for radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and for intelligent packaging, according to the company developing the technology.
Edible food wraps made from fruit and vegetable ingredients could appeal to food makers looking for nutritious, colourful and eye-catching films for convenience foods, reports Lindsey Partos.
Though consumers are still not prepared to sacrifice taste for a low-sodium diet,the food industry is beginning to make headway in find alternatives to salt despite numerous challenges, writes Anthony Fletcher.
A new kind of shrink process reduces the chance of food contamination and gives a closer fit of the product to the package, according to Multivac.
Food processors will soon be able to detect rogue pieces of plastic in their products, if trials of a new machine that detects coloured objects prove successful.
One cannot envy the chief executive faced with a scientific study that casts doubt over the efficacy or safety of his core product. But avoiding a sales slump, media vilification and even charges of fraud means squaring up to such studies immediately.
Sweden-based Avure's latest high pressure processing system for the food industry is one of the biggest innovations in food technology this year, according to market analyst Frost & Sullivan.
To get an idea of how a higher prices for commodities and a competitive European food market are hurting companies' bottom lines, one only has to look at the financial results published by threecompanies this week.
UK-based food processors who use poultry in their products are likely to face more safety regulations after a government report singles out chicken meat as the largest contributor to Campylobacter infections in the country.
The European Commission's plan to relax the bloc's rules on mad cow disease provides hope to food companies that they will have wider access to beef suppliers, including those in the UK.
Irritable bowel syndrome consumers are significantly more likely to have elevated food-specific serum IgG4 antibodies to wheat, beef, pork and lamb than healthy volunteers, researchers report.
Supplies of live poultry, poultry meat and eggs from the UK will continue to flow to EU countries while the UK battles with a disease that can wipe out entire flocks.
SmartCrate is a collapsible, reusable container designed specifically for shipping bone-in-loin pork and beef meat.
In a move that is bound to add more heat to the dispute among EU states over genetically modified organisms, the Europe's food safety regulator has approved a number of products for use within the bloc.
Graphical instructions beamed by light onto poultry carcasses could soon help trimmers on the production line separate the bad from the good.
A UK government report on the rising economic, environmental and social costs of transport associated with getting food from farm to fork could increase pressure on a competitive industry.
Squeezed by rising meat prices and a falling appetite for its products UK burger supremo Canterbury Foods said its revenues for the full year will be "substantially below market expectations".
High pressure processing is emerging as one of the prime technologies food producers are using to extend the relatively short shelf life for their chilled products, reports Ahmed ElAmin.
Food processors who use oysters in their recipes might slowly be facing a shortage of the molluscs due to the effects of global warming.
UK-based Grampian Country Food has issued a warning to customers stating it will raise prices for its meat products due to the escalating cost of oil, gas, electricitity, feed and packaging.
Meat from the lab directly to the table is still in an experimental stage right now, but a team of scientists have jumped ahead of the crowd by indicating how it might be done on an industrial scale.
CFS's MasterTrack machine aims to speed up the measuring of fat content in fresh and frozen meat while on the processing line.
A society that views food as taste-bud entertainment rather than a basic of well-being was always bound to run into health problems. But with obesity now afflicting 300m people, and diabetes set to reach similar numbers within two decades, the problems borne of food abuse are emerging as more than a glitch. They amount to a profound loss of direction in our understanding of both food and medicine.
The bird flu situation in many Asian countries remains critical and requires more attention by affected countries and the international community, reports the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
The discovery in Ireland of another probable case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) might turn some consumers away from their meat, but perhaps they can be assured the country, and the EU, seem to be winning the battle to stamp out bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
As part of the forthcoming implementation of new EU regulations, the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published a plan to increase its oversight of imported food and feed arriving at Heathrow Airport.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given a negative opinion about the safety of BioProtein, but has approved Reuteri Pig Powder, Econase Wheat Plus and Roxazyme G2 as feed additivies for various animals.
Overall there is no difference in health risks to consumers between farmed and wild salmon according to scientists at the European food safety regulator.
The UK's food safety agency has called for scientists to work on chemical contaminants, food pathogens and novel foods in a range of new projects.
Tighter controls need to be adopted by both the food industry and consumers to limit the spread of the harmful food pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, concludes a new report.
Harmful Listeria and Salmonella bacteria can live on in prepared products even under the toughest plant safety conditions according to research published by the Food Safety Consortium.
It is time to draw on science to establish once and for all whether food intolerance is just a source of succour for hypochondriacs, or whether it is genuinely a modern scourge.
Danish Crown, Europe's largest meat processor has approved the sale of another slaughterhouse in its domestic market, as it attempts to expand internationally and lower costs.
The EU's food and drinks sector is in danger of losing its market share unless more is done to boost its competitiveness, says a body representing the industry - which also supports a reduction in domestic subsidies for its members.
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