BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities shut down a dairy in Shanghai and arrested three of its executives after tests found some of its milk products were tainted with the same industrial chemical at the center of a milk safety scandal more than a year ago, state media said Friday.
The Shanghai Daily newspaper said authorities found that Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. Ltd. was producing milk powder and condensed milk with unacceptably high levels of melamine, which can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.
It said eight batches of contaminated milk powder and …

29 December 2009 – AQSIQ issued an announcement on December 14, urging the quality inspection agencies at all levels to strengthen supervision, inspection, and anti-counterfeiting law-enforcement to ensure the quality and safety of food and hot-selling products during the New Year’s Day holiday and the Spring Festival.
According to the announcement, the quality inspection agencies should step up supervision and administration on food product manufacturing, and ensure that the food makers take the primary responsibilities. First, food producers with safety problems found out in the past will be laid focus on, …

Of the 4,700 food samples tested by the Centre for Food Safety in November, 99.6% were satisfactory. Eighteen items failed the tests.
 
A Romaine hearts sample and a Chinese white cabbage contained excessive cadmium while a dried fig had sorbic acid exceeding the legal limit.
 
Two dried raisins, two dried apricots, a dried tomato, a dried sweet potato and a skinned green chilli pepper were found to contain excessive sulphur dioxide.
 
Two pure cream samples from the same batch had total bacterial counts exceeding the legal limit. They were collected at import level …

Clarithromycin  ( Biaxin) is a white to off-white crystalline powder. It is soluble in acetone, slightly soluble in methanol, ethanol, and acetonitrile, and practically insoluble in water.
BIAXIN is available as immediate-release tablets, extended-release tablets, and granules for oral suspension
Each yellow oval film-coated immediate-release BIAXIN tablet (clarithromycin tablets, USP) contains 250 mg or 500 mg of clarithromycin and the following inactive ingredients:
250 mg tablets: hypromellose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, D&C Yellow No. 10, FD&C Blue No. 1, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, povidone, pregelatinized starch, propylene glycol, silicon dioxide, sorbic acid, sorbitan …

MonaVie has no control over how the product is stored once it arrives at its destination and because of this they understand that the product may not be kept in optimal conditions.  It is in these less than satisfactory conditions that the growth of potentially harmful bacteria is promoted necessitating the need for preservatives.
 
Citric Acid
MonaVie uses a lemon based form of citric acid but the levels of citric acid in the formula are extremely low. Citric acid is a natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic (sour) …

Following a request from the European Commission for a scientific opinion on the use of polyglycitol syrup as a food additive, the European Food Safety Authority Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food says there are no safety concerns when using appropriate levels of the syrup.
Polyglycitol syrup belongs to the hydrogenated starch hydrolysate syrups composed of maltitol, sorbitol and higher molecular weight polyols.
In contrast to maltitol syrup EU specifications, the polyglycitol syrup has a defined concentration of sorbitol, a lower concentration of maltitol and a defined concentration …

     Dr. Tim’s Brazilian Acai is made with 100% Acai puree that is rich in deep purple color and anthocyanins, the green healthy oils rich in omega 6 & 9 and all of the fiber and the other elements that you can only get with real Acai puree. In addition to that Dr. Tim’s Brazilian Acai offers a “Best Taste Guarantee” that you can only get with Dr. Tim’s juices. “We don’t make just any juice, we make juices that change peoples’ lives” says Dr. Tim. The folks at Dr. …

WASHINGTON – December 8 – Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals for all animal drug applications for arsenic-containing compounds used in animal feed. These additives are commonly used in poultry production to induce faster weight gain and create the appearance of a healthy color in meat from chickens, turkeys and hogs. The petition was supported by a coalition of food and farm groups …

The 19th meeting of the Food Ingredients Europe took place between November 17th, to November 19th, 2009 at the Frankfurt Messe in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. The Food Ingredients Europe event is a meeting place for the people working in the food industry. More than 1100 food industry people from more than 190 countries had their products on display at the 19th meeting of the Food Ingredients Europe. The first meeting of this event goes back to 1986, where it happened in Utrecht, in the Netherlands.
I was very much interested in the …

Hong Kong (HKSAR) – The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (November 30) announced the results of a recently conducted targeted food surveillance project on the use of the preservatives nitrate and nitrite in meat, meat products and cheese. One of the 500 samples collected was found unsatisfactory. Under the Preservatives in Food Regulations, no preservatives, including nitrate and nitrite, are allowed to be added into fresh, chilled or frozen meat.
However, uncooked pickled meat, cheese (other than cheddar or Cheshire type cheese or soft cheese) may contain preservatives within the …