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[27 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 3,510 views]

BEIJING — Health officials in southern China have swept frozen confections and other dairy products from stores after discovering they contained melamine, the industrial compound at the center of a tainted-food scandal that rocked China’s dairy industry in 2008, news reports said Monday.
It was the third time in a month that Chinese authorities had announced problems related to melamine, suggesting that producers are still making and selling tainted food ingredients despite outrage over the 2008 scandal and what the government heralded as a crackdown.
The former head of the Guangdong Provincial …

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[27 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 3,351 views]

The C.E.O. of a Des Moines-based company that has manufacturing plants in seven other countries says if legislators choose to curtail the state’s tax credit for research activities, the state will lose jobs.
Kemin Industries makes vitamins and food additives at plants in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.  Chris Nelson, Kemin’s C.E.O., says it costs nearly three times as much to hire a scientist to work in Des Moines, but the state’s research activites tax credit helps offset that.
“So that regardless that we pay …

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[27 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 23,388 views]

Melissa Dobbins is a registered dietitian and a spokesperson for the Illinois Dietetic Association. She shares some important information on sugar and artificial sweeteners.
One in four children and one in three teen girls exceeds the maximum recommended intake of sugar. In addition, nine out of 10 Americans buy or use low-calorie products including sugar-free foods or beverages. Melissa Dobbins is a registered dietitian and a spokesperson for the Illinois Dietetic Association, and she is here today to share some facts on sugars and artificial sweeteners.
Sugars (technically referred to as “nutritive …

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[14 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 3,431 views]

Rockville, Md., January 11, 2010 — New standards to help ensure the quality and enhance the safety of key ingredients widely used in infant formulas and a variety of functional foods are being proposed for inclusion in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC), an internationally recognized compendium of quality standards for food ingredients. The proposed standards are for three nucleotides, present in breast milk and commonly added to infant formula, and two docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) oils, essential omega 3 fatty acids present in fish and often added to both infant formula …

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[14 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 4,084 views]

During November, Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety found 99.6 percent of the 4,700 food samples it tested safe.
About 3,000 were subjected to chemical tests and the rest received microbiological and other testing.
The Hong Kong center uses microbiological tests to check for pathogens and viruses and chemical tests to detect pesticides, preservatives, metallic contamination, and coloring.
Among the foods tested were vegetables, fruits, fruit and vegetable products, meat, poultry, and meat products, aquatic products, milk, milk products, frozen confections, cereals, grains, and grain and cereal products.
About 1,600 samples of fruits, vegetables, …

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[7 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 3,930 views]

Jan. 5, 2010. As of today, China will levy a temporary anti-dumping tax on food additives imported from Thailand and Indonesia, said the Ministry of Commerce in a statement published on its website yesterday.
The MOC claims that firms in the two countries dumped their food additives in China, which led to substantial damage to the domestic food additive industry.
China has imposed a 16.9% deposit rate for products from PT Cheil Jedang Indonesia, an 8.1% rate for products from Indonesia-based PT Kirin Miwon Foods and a 6.5% rate for products from …

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[3 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 2,645 views]

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 …

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[30 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 3,214 views]

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, …

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[30 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 2,862 views]

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 …

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[28 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 5,423 views]

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 …