LycoRed Ltd., Israel, is gratified by the recent announcement by The Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) affirming that lycopene from tomato extract is safe for use as a food additive. LycoRed’s Lyc-O-Mato® and Tomat-O-Red® tomato lycopene ingredients fall squarely within the parameters of the JECFA monograph. These ingredients which provide many of the tomatoes benefits are added to food both as healthy colorants and to fortify foods with the full array of antioxidant-rich carotenoids found naturally in tomato.
Zohar Nir, LycoRed’s Vice President of New Product Development and Scientific …

What ingredients make for good and bad dog food?
First of all, many of the big companies are paying really slick marketers and advertisers millions of dollars per year to advertise their dog food. The amount of money they are spending on marketing has no relationship to the quality of the dog food. This is unfortunate for you as some of the best advertised dog food is inferior.
There is one way for you to guess the quality of dog food however it is not fool proof. You can normally use the …

Every one of us living in uncertain times knows the basic components of survival in emergency. The basics are food, water, clothing and shelter. It is necessary to have all these items at hand in case of natural disaster, terrorist attack or other unexpected situation. But to get you long term food storage ready can be a very difficult task. We often put some food products aside and it gives us some sense of security. But this feeling is false because when something unexpected comes up we realize that we …

WASHINGTON — The FDA has called for routine testing for melamine contamination in certain ingredients used in the manufacture and preparation of drugs.
If consumed in sufficient amounts, the chemical — used in the industrial production of resins, cleaning products, fertilizers, and pesticides — can cause kidney failure and death.
The FDA recommended screening the pharmaceutical ingredients with methods currently used for testing food proteins. The equipment necessary is generally available to drug manufacturers and contract testing labs, the agency said.
There is “no reason to believe that the U.S. pharmaceutical supply is …

Studies show between 6 and 7 million Americans suffer from food allergies. Because of the presence of food allergens, the Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center, located on the Oklahoma State University campus, held a seminar for its faculty, staff and students to learn more about the latest food allergen issues.
The FAPC invited Dr. Stephen Taylor, director of the Food Allergy Research & Resource Program and professor with the department of food science and technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to speak during the seminar and discuss allergens …