The following information was provided by the Buffalo County Extension Office:
Trends can be regional, cultural and socio-economical. Areas most affected by the economic turndown will create trends based on food costs and supply.
One trend is back to basic home cooking. Recipes using six or less ingredients, with detailed information on how to prepare the ingredients using basic cooking techniques. How to store food properly so less is thrown out.
Interest in nutritional ingredients like antioxidant potent spices – cumin, cinnamon and turmeric. Foods fortified with pre- and pro-biotics and omega-3 rich foods like …

The food safety issues that have made headlines in recent months will be among the hot topics addressed by researchers during the Executive and Technical Series of the 2009 World Tea Expo at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, May 2-4.
Launched at last year’s Expo, the Executive and Technical Series (or ETS) is a high-level conference with content for top executives, research scientists, ingredient managers and product formulators of large companies. It runs concurrently with the Expo but features exclusive sessions, meals and networking for ETS attendees only. Responding …

natural and organic food
Organic food has been around for many generations. The term organic, however, did not come about until the mid 1960’s. Organic food is basically when no additives, preservatives, or pesticides are used in the food during growth or production. The older generations grew organic food when they had large gardens that fed the big families. In today’s society, however, growing a garden has become almost extinct. Organic food has seen a revolution that has put fresh food back on the plates of people.
Fresh organic food is now …

Last year overturned out to be the poorest in history for pet food recalls. While there is no way to be 100% destined that a pet food is not rotten or will be recalled, there are whatever red flags to countenance for when selecting your dog’s or cat’s food. Avoiding these ordinary pet food ingredients can greatly meliorate your ratio in purchase a healthy, innocuous pet food.
Judging the country or the nutritional continuance of a pet food starts by ignoring the advertising, the price of the pet food, and ignoring …

Publication title: European Food Law Handbook,
Author: Bernd van der Meulen and Menno van der Velde
Publication type: Book (Hardback)
Publication date: 15 December 2008
Number of pages: 640
ISBN number: 978-90-8686-082-1
Price: 54.00 EUR Euros

 
European food law has fundamentally been reformed in the last decade. We now come to the point where the modern European Union food law has taken shape. The new European food law handbook, written in the perspective of food law embedded within the general EU law, highlights the consequences of  this combination and provides insights in both substantive and procedural food …

The Food Standards Agency, British Poultry Council, National Farmers’ Union and Veterinary Medicines Directorate have produced a leaflet to help farm owners, their managers and workers reduce nicarbazin residues in chicken through better feed storage and distribution management systems. Nicarbazin is a medicated feed additive used to treat a debilitating poultry disease called coccidiosis.
The leaflet, which can be found at the link below, will be emailed to farmers and can be printed out as a poster. It was produced following the publication of the joint Government and industry report ’Reducing …

　　BEIJING — China should strengthen risk management to ensure food safety, according to a blue paper issued here Monday by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
　　The country’s risk management system focuses on evaluating biological, chemical and physical dangers that may exist in food and food additives.
　　In last year’s milk scandal, melamine-tainted baby milk powder produced by Sanlu was found to have caused the deaths of at least six children and sickened some 300,000 children.
　　According to the paper, the results of risk assessing should be an important scientific basis for monitoring …

Alltech is taking a giant step into the $1 billion global market for Asian food.
The Nicholasville biotechnology company, best known for animal nutrition products and for sponsoring the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, is partnering with two large Japanese companies — Mitsui and Asahi — to produce “a natural alternative” to monosodium glutamate, or MSG, and other artificial taste enhancers found in many Asian foods, Alltech founder Pearce Lyons said Tuesday.
The new additive, a yeast extract that has not been given a brand name, also could be used in non-Asian …

The newly co-located All Things Organic™ Conference & Trade Show, OTA Annual Meeting and Member Days, Expo Comida Latina and All Asia Food events offer the convenience of one-stop shopping for the hottest growth segments in today’s food market. The combined shows will present new and innovative products, education and tools to capitalize on today’s top consumer trends in the high-growth organic, multicultural, health and wellness, and specialty food industry categories. The events will be held June 16-18 at Lakeside Center, McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill.

The 2009 All Things Organic™ …

As more than a thousand research chefs and culinologists from all over the world descend on Dallas March 4-8 for the annual Research Chef Assn. (RCA) conference, few observers will be able to deny the phenomenal growth and expanding relevance of the discipline of culinology.
RCA president Stephen Kalil, CEC, CRC, executive chef of the Plano, Texas-based Frito Lay Culinary Innovation Center, sees the root of culinology’s importance in that it “inspires collaboration between professionals in culinary arts with professional in food science and technology. And it does so unconditionally, with …