CAROL STREAM, Ill.— Premium Ingredients International is expanding its presence in Canada, establishing PII Food Ingredients as a division of Bulk Pharmaceuticals Corp., Scarborough, Ontario. Bulk Pharmaceuticals has been in business for more than 15 years serving the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and veterinary industries, and was acquired by Premium Ingredients in May 2008.
PII Food Ingredients will concentrate on offering a targeted portfolio of core ingredients, including vitamins, acidulants, preservatives and flavors, to the food industry in Canada. Don Thorp, president of Premium Ingredients, said, “The establishment of PII Food Ingredients will …

St. Petersburg, FL – Scientists announced today to a group of 12,300 food industry executives attending the Global Food Additives Convention that a new sweetener is expected to be approved by the FDA and hence given world-wide acceptance.
It is expected that the new sweetener, called santonexame, will rapidly displace aspartame. santonexame is 200 times sweeter than aspartame. Although it is 100 times as expensive, food industry executives will be essentially obliged to use it thanks to their fiduciary responsibilities to stock holders.
In trials on Chinese prisoners, no adverse effects were …

Brussels – European food watchdog EFSA has worked out guidelines to assure that the often genetically engineered food enzymes are safe. In a brand new guidance document, the food regulators specify the information that industry must provide and is required for the obligatory safety assessments.
The enzymes, which carry out chemical transformations, are added to food to perform a technological function in manufacturing, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage. Food enzymes can be used in certain cases as alternatives to food additives in order to improve the texture, appearance or …

LUDHIANA: Food security has always been of concern in developing countries but off late a new concept of healthy food has slowly crept into the 
minds of economically well off and health conscious people.
A further improvisation of organic foods- few industrialists and entrepreneurs who afford the means have started cultivating food items for their dining tables under their own strict vigil.
With a whole new market of organic foods items emerging in city, seriously conscious people feel that people engaged in commercial production of organics may sometimes ignore quality owing to their …

ONCO-Z Corious Versicolor Extract, which is produced by Hong Kong manufacturer PuraPharm International, recently became the first traditional Chinese medicine ingredient to become “USP Verified.”
This indicates that the ingredient has passed the rigorous requirements of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention’s Dietary Ingredient Verification Program. USP is a scientific nonprofit organization that sets standards for the quality of medicines, dietary supplements and food ingredients, which are used in more than 130 countries. Through its voluntary ingredient verification programs, USP also assesses the quality of dietary supplement and pharmaceutical ingredients.
Through the Dietary Ingredient …