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[23 Jun 2010 | Comments Off on Bakery Ingredients – Making better bread | 13,497 views]
Bakery Ingredients – Making better bread

Consumers are now enjoying several varieties of bread. This presents bakers with a chance to design and optimise innovative formulae that improve the quality and nutritional profile of bread, at the same time ensuring its shelf life, ease of processing and consistent final product specifications. Bread must contain somewhat established proportions of basic ingredients like flour, fat, leavening, sugar and water. It is a challenge to add new ingredients for functional and nutritional improvements. Even the slightest variation in ingredient quantity or manufacturing process can make changes in the final …

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[23 Jun 2010 | Comments Off on The goal of the new agreement of food in the United States, China, the quality of raw materials | 4,036 views]

Recognizing the importance of ensuring that food ingredients of assured quality are made available to the public, the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety-Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (NINFS) and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) detailing potential areas of collaboration. USP is a non-governmental scientific organization based in the United States that sets standards for the quality of medicines, dietary supplements and food ingredients. Standards published in USP’s Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) cover food ingredients including colorings, flavorings, nutrients, preservatives …

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[9 Jun 2010 | Comments Off on FDA Launches Animal Food Pilot Program | 3,912 views]
FDA Launches Animal Food Pilot Program

 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine launched on June 4, 2010 the beginning of a pilot program to accept and review GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) notices for substances used in animal food.
Through the program, individuals, also referred to as the “notifier” by the FDA, can submit “notices of claims that a particular use of a substance in food for animals is exempt from the statutory premarket approval requirements based on the individual’s determination that such use is GRAS.”
In short, the notifier can inform the FDA …

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[9 Jun 2010 | Comments Off on Use Of Preservatives Sorbic | 3,999 views]

Use of preservatives (sorbic acid or potassium sorbate), and ultra-scope to use sweeteners. Similarly, in 2007, Jiaxing, Wenzhou, Exit Inspection and Quarantine failed to identify and send back batches of imported wines, including a 7308 bottle of French wine; last year, in Zhuhai Inspection and Quarantine Bureau through sampling, identified a number of imported dry red wine excessive lead content.
According to inspectors reflected in the low-quality foreign wine quality problems, the additives such as preservatives and sweeteners exceeded more common. Add wine, primarily for preservative sorbic acid or potassium sorbate, …

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[23 May 2010 | Comments Off on What is Potassium Sorbate? | 6,510 views]

What is Potassium Sorbate?; A common preservative present in many cosmetic and skin care products. It is generally used as an alternative to parabens by inhibiting the growth of microorganisms and preventing the degradation of the product.
It is created using Sorbic Acid, found in ash tree berries, and is quite effective against the proliferation of fungi, mold and yeast.
 
However, being less effective against bacteria, it is not a preservative that has a broad spectrum of use solely on its own. Potassium sorbate is almost always used in combination with other …

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[23 May 2010 | Comments Off on Can A Beer Ingredient Really Fit An End To Your Yeast Virus? | 2,999 views]

One particular point which is gaining usage within the yeast infection residence remedies toolkit is potassium sorbate Yeast Infection Freedom. This can be a instead strong fungicide that’s applied a lot from the food business for preservation of meals ingredients and it has also been utilized for just a extended time from the breweries across the planet since it’s ready to be introduced to the brewing procedure to end the progress of yeast in the exact time it requirements to occur as a way to make the beer taste since …

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[25 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 3,704 views]

Sorbic acid is a straight-chain monocarboxylic acid used in cosmetic formulations as a preservative at concentrations up to 1.0%.
Sorbic acid and potassium sorbate were practically nontoxic to rats and mice in acute oral toxicity studies. In subchronic studies no significant adverse effects were observed in rats, mice, or dogs when 10% sorbic acid was included in the diet.
Sorbic acid and potassium sorbate at concentrations up to 10% were practically nonirritating to the rabbit eye. Both ingredients at concentrations up to 10% were at most only slightly irritating.
Sorbic acid and potassium …

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[25 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 4,249 views]

Controlling bacteria levels in colostrum is an important aspect of managing this important first feed for calves. Once it is collected, colostrum can be refrigerated, frozen, or have potassium sorbate added to control bacterial growth (though the latter is seldom used). When done correctly, each of these methods can keep bacteria from growing, but none of these strategies reduces the amount of bacteria already present in colostrum. Bacteria can get in to colostrum through contamination from milking dirty udders, reservoirs in dirty milking equipment or colostrum storage containers, and by …

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[25 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 2,693 views]

BEIJING – China’s top food safety authority issued new regulations Thursday, setting more stringent requirements on the use and the approval of food additives.
The Ministry of Health’s “Regulations of New Food Additives,” published on its website, set six new restrictions on the use of food additives.
The new regulations forbid the use of food additives to mislead consumers about the content and quality of food or to fake food content.
Using food additives to disguise decaying and bad quality food is also forbidden.
Under the new regulations, food producers are required to use …

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[25 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 3,239 views]

THE Chinese ministry of health has issued six new regulations on the use of artificial additives in food.
 
The new, stricter regulations also cover the approval of food additives. According to Chinese state newspaper China Daily, new food additives will only be approved for use if it can be shown that they are absolutely necessary for food production and if they pass tests set by the ministry to determine if they are safe for human consumption. Additives already approved will face reassessment.
 
The regulations forbid the use of additives which mislead consumers …