After enjoying a good meal of chips and chicken, young Atuha almost lost her life as doctors struggled to get save her life after it was confirmed that she ate a chemical used to preserve foods. Writes Eunice Rukundo
A single meal of chips and chicken almost ended their second-born daughter’s life. And now, it has changed their way of life. Today, when they desire chips and fried chicken or fruit juice, they buy fresh items from Nakasero Market and prepare the meal at home.
The couple is constantly kept in …

Opponents of a federal bill that would require inspections of farms say it would cause hardship and force many small farms out of business.
But others feel the bill is merely an attempt to ramp up the discussion on food safety.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) recently introduced HR 875, “The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009.”
The bill is sweeping in its scope and magnitude.
It would establish a new “food safety administration” within the Department of Health and Human Services that would be run by an administrator of food safety, whose task would …

Shares of Toronto-based Bio-Extraction (TSX: V.BXI, Stock Forum) climbed 27.6% to 48.5 cents Thursday, after the company announced after Wednesday’s market close that it has successfully produced at pilot scale a canola protein isolate and hydrolyzed protein concentrate.  
The technology company, which is focused on the extraction of oil and high-value proteins from oilseeds for the global food market, says potential uses for the canola protein isolate, Isolexx, include nutritional beverages, nutritional supplements, infant formulas, meat products and meat substitutes, baked goods, sauces and creams, confectionaries, milk and egg replacers, …

An export market at the current fire situation, the industry should pay attention to the mutation in the international market, keeping in mind the previous years, vitamin C, penicillin bulk exports such as cut-throat competition of low-cost lesson.
As the amount of large, wide use of drugs and health products taurine, the most rapid development in recent years, especially in the export market is booming and one group on the scene. However, the industry believes that the current export of our country taurine around the international market, once the international market …

The new century, China’s food industry the first major reform initiatives are: one month since 2000, beginning one day, a “degradable” of food packaging materials, phase out the use of non-degradable material to control the disturbing “white pollution “, for the next step,” Edible packaging “lay the foundation for the development of edible packaging is one of the world food industry development of new technology trends, it has covered a wide range of applications, such as casings, fruit wax, sugar, rice paper, clothing and ice coated tablets and so on.
Edible …

Based on data and charts, Report on China Food Additive Market has conducted a thorough, precise and timely analysis on domestic food additive market in terms of market situation, import and export volume as well as domestic market price as to objectively forecast future market. It releases a periodic data about food additive price, import & export volume by countries and enterprises and economic index of key processing companies.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. and DETROIT, Mar 30, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) —-Health Enhancement Products, Inc. (OTCBB:HEPI) has awarded a grant to the Department of Nutrition and Food Science to conduct a study to confirm the therapeutic effects of its ProAlgaZyme (PAZ: undefined, undefined, undefined%) bioactive compound in reducing LDL cholesterol and C-reactive protein, a protein found in the blood in response to inflammation.
Wayne State University ranks among the nation’s top 50 public universities engaged in basic and applied biomedical research. The Department of Nutrition and Food Science conducts research in obesity …

In a small number of situations you may find it’s best to stop the fermentation operation prior to comes to a stopping by itself. The most popular purpose for desiring to halt the fermentation process is that you have concluded that the wine already has the proper measure of sweetness that you prefer and you have no desire for it to go any more.
By stopping the fermentation then, many wine makers believe that they can preserve the measure of sweetness that the wine has already produced and if you need …

News in the past year has focused on concerns that hormone-altering chemicals are leaching into our food via plastic food containers. But bisphenol A, which is found in food containers, the lining of food and soda cans, plastic wrap and baby bottles, may be only one source of chemicals manipulating human hormones and reaching people through food.
A new study reports that at least two chemicals commonly used as food preservatives mimic the hormone estrogen in the human body, according to a story in Environmental Health News. Food additives are completely …

So you use an essential oils and you get a rash or little bumps all over your fingers and hands. We know that this is not an allergic condition caused by the oils but the oils are defintely causing the skin to react in uncomfortable ways. So what is happening? Is this an “allergy” to the oil?
First of all we know that we are living in a very toxic world where we are developing allergies and sensitivities to the pollutants in our water, air and food chain. We are walking time bombs …