Drink a diet soda and get a headache. Sip a cup of tomato soup and suddenly you feel numbness in your arms and back. You wolf down a small bag of chips and later get a stomach ache.
It is believed that since World War II more than 80,000 new man-made chemicals have been created. These chemicals are used in our cars, homes and on our jobs. But many of them appear as additions to our foods. Research has suggested that many of these food additives are making us sick.
Along with …

There are several food ingredients that are best to avoid as they offer no nutritional value and may be detrimental to your health. Reading the list of ingredients on pre-packaged foods should be the first thing you do when deciding if a product is worth buying.
A basic rule of thumb for choosing food products is if there are ingredients that you are unfamiliar with or cannot pronounce then the product is best left on the shelf. Typically, the least amount of ingredients a product contains, the better it is. Products …

Reuters reports that Starbucks Corp, which has tried for years to jump-start a much-criticized food division, plans to revamp its menu at the end of this month to lure health- and cost-conscious consumers.
On June 30, the world’s top coffee chain will begin selling baked goods without high-fructose corn syrup or artificial flavors and dyes, and will introduce salads and other items.
“Food has been the Achilles’ heel of the company … That statement will be long buried after we launch this program,” Michelle Gass, Starbucks’ executive vice president of marketing, told …

As part of its efforts to improve the quality of medicines and food ingredients worldwide, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention this week reached three new cooperative agreements with Chinese drug control authorities. Because Chinese manufacturers supply so much of the world’s drug and food ingredients, these agreements—coupled with three previous agreements between USP and other government organizations in China—mark a significant commitment to ensure that concerns about quality are addressed. USP is a scientific, nonprofit organization that sets standards for the quality of prescription and over-the-counter drugs that are enforced …

Hong Kong’s Consumer Council has conducted a massive test on 40 samples of bottled water and found that Perrier, a water product of Nestle which is used as a complimentary drink by some star-rated hotels to their clients, contains a high level of nitrite.
It is learned that Perrier water sample contained nitrite at a concentration of 0.4 mg/L, which was in excess of the limit (0.1 mg/L) set in the Codex Standard for Natural Mineral Waters.
Nestle is reported to expressed its surprise over the test results. According to Chinese media, …

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     The standards for the food dry red wine terminology, technical requirements, test methods, inspection rules and signs, packaging, transportation, storage.
     This standard applies to access to food signs of dry red wine.
     2 reference standards
     GB 10344 standard drink of wine labels
     GB 4789 Microbiology of food hygiene inspection
     GB 5009 food hygiene some physical and chemical testing methods
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     QB 921 and the test of wine therapy
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Almost all our foods contain unbiological chemicals to some degree. It starts with water-soluble fertilizers that are overused and cause mineral imbalances and trace mineral deficiencies in our crop plants; it continues with the liberal use of weedicides, pesticides and fumigants. Many of these leave residues that we ingest. Growing our crops using the common water-soluble fertilizer causes a similar disturbance to the plant metabolism as a high-sugar diet does to a hypoglycemic metabolism. The cells are flooded with some nutrients, while others are lacking.
While there are now high amounts …

Rockville, Md., June 19, 2009 — As part of its efforts to improve the quality of medicines and food ingredients worldwide, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention this week reached three new cooperative agreements with Chinese drug control authorities. Because Chinese manufacturers supply so much of the world’s drug and food ingredients, these agreements—coupled with three previous agreements between USP and other government organizations in China—mark a significant commitment to ensure that concerns about quality are addressed. USP is a scientific, nonprofit organization that sets standards for the quality of prescription …

TasteTech has introduced a new 90 per cent version of its controlled release encapsulated sorbic acid to inhibit mould on bread, as industry seeks more ways to reduce formulation costs without impairing quality.
The encapsulation specialist has offered encapsulated sorbic acid for about the last 10 years in 35 per cent and 50 per cent versions.
The new addition to the line is 90 per cent sorbic acid and just 10 per cent vegetable fat coating, and it comes in larger particles that are mixed with other dry ingredients. This means that …

The global manufacturing and economic slowdown will hit the specialty chemicals market this year, as spending declines 4% to $451 billion worldwide this year.
In a recent report, analysts at SRI Consulting forecast that “these economic conditions will continue until sometime in 2010 and then gradually improve…The specialty chemicals market in 2010 is estimated to reach about the same size as in 2008 and then gradually climb during the next three years to reach $530 billion in 2013.”
SRI says the specialty chemicals end-use segments that have been hard hit by the …