SHANGHAI –
– Two-day expo and conference is jointly hosted by major Shanghai government ministries and features speakers from leading Chinese and Asia/Pac carriers as well as top analysts from Pyramid Research and Heavy Reading
TelcoTV Asia 2009 (www.telcotvasia.com), which extends Light Reading’s leading TelcoTV event brand for the first time into China, will be launched this October in Shanghai.
The event, jointly hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & Television (SCRFT) and the Shanghai Economy & Information Technology Commission (SHEITC), will be convened on October 13 and 14, …

With more than 600 chemical compounds potentially occurring in wine, there are some complex reactions vintners just can’t control.
A little sniff of something that seems odd to you can mean big things have gone wrong in the wine. Your nose is your first line of defence in detecting wine flaws and, worse, wine faults.
Little departures from normal are flaws, which sometimes can actually add to a wine’s complexity. But big things are faults, and can lead to rejection by amateur tasters and wine judges alike.
Often folks notice something is off …

It is located in the China General Administration of Quality Supervision WTO / SPS National Advisory Center for news briefing: South Korea issued a circular recently, Korea Food and Drug Administration has set standards on Food Additives Amendment Bill. Products related to food additives, amendments include: equipment for interim approval as a disinfectant peracetic acid hydrogen peroxide product and norm-setting products; will detect the use of spore suspension into the test list disinfection. The draft amendment is to seek comments.

Today’s food products are typically chockfull of additives and preservatives: the latter additions are often used to keep the food fresh for longer periods of time. Yet, additives and preservatives are not necessarily healthy for the individuals that consume them on a regular basis. Additives are often put into processed foods in order to add specific nutrients, vitamins and minerals, or fend off food spoilage, or to improve upon the look, feel, smell, and taste of a particular food. Some additives are merely additional colorings and dyes which might not …

Pedro Perez’s food brims with bacteria, just the way he likes it.
For the past two years, the Stillwater resident has been fermenting his own food, making homemade yogurt, sauerkraut, sourdough bread and kimchi (a traditional Korean vegetable side dish) on his kitchen counter.
The fermentation process — which Perez describes as easy and money-saving — is older than recorded history. Today, it’s gaining favor among people who want to take advantage of its health benefits, including heaps of helpful bacteria known as probiotics. The fermentation revival is also getting a boost …

Uncooked meat products enhanced with food additives may contain high levels of phosphorous and potassium that are not discernable from inspection of food labels, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). This can make it difficult for people to limit dietary phosphorous and potassium that at high levels are harmful to kidney disease patients.
 
Kidney disease patients on dialysis must watch their intake of dietary phosphate so that their blood phosphate levels do not rise. This is important because …

Washington, D.C. – An effort to improve the safety of fruits, vegetables and processed foods is running into objections from a broad collection of farm interests, including livestock producers, organic farmers and small-scale growers.
A bill approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in June would give the Food and Drug Administration more authority over the 80 percent of the food supply the agency is responsible for regulating.
The food administration, which regulates most foods except for meat and poultry, would be required to set safety standards for fruit and vegetable …

The dog food that you buy your dog is more than just a meal. What your dog eats impacts his health and it can even make him sick. As a concerned dog owner, you must take your time to choose dog food that is high quality and that does not contain ingredients that could harm your dog’s health.
It can often be difficult to tell if a dog food is high quality just by looking at it. It is really not about how the food looks as much as it is …

Things are not as simple as they used to be. There was a time when any food a grocer sold was suitable to feed to the family. Nowadays, many of the products on the shelves can’t really be said to be food. Preservatives, additives, flavors, colors and shapes pollute our food sources in ways even the saviest of consumers can’t know about.
Breakfast cereal, for example, touts the benefits of whole grains and vitamins but at the same time is an extruded food, meaning it was processed so intensely that it …

Global health officials are scrambling to try to prevent the spread of the H1N1 swine flu virus, with U.S. officials moving Thursday with a recommendation that the Food and Drug Administration approve or license a vaccine.
In the U.K., the government launched a telephone hotline and Internet site as the number of new cases last week doubled to an estimated 100,000. The number of deaths attributed to the disease had held steady at 26 in England, not including cases diagnosed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Besides vaccine development, health officials are …