Demand for food safety products in China is forecast to increase 15 percent per annum through 2013 to 13.0 billion yuan.  Growth will be driven by the continuing expansion of food and beverage output, especially in the processed food, beverage and dairy product segments which are more intensive users of these products.  A greater focus on food safety and supply chain security by larger food processing firms in China will also boost gains.  This will be partly in response to enhanced government regulation, in particular the Food Safety Law introduced …

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a list of data requirements that industry must submit for the assessment of food additives.
These requirements will form part of new regulations adopted by the European Commission in December, which will replace previous directives concerning permitted food additives.
Specifically, Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 lays out criteria that food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings must fulfill in order to be approved. The data requirements published yesterday by EFSA’s ANS panel (panel on additives and nutrient sources added to food) will be considered by …

Some of the nation’s biggest food and agriculture companies are planning to release a flurry of studies in coming weeks that scrutinize the potential impact of climate-change legislation, warning that it could lead to higher food prices.
A group of agriculture giants including Cargill Inc., along with meat company Tyson Foods Inc. and food maker General Mills Inc., is concerned the companies might bear a disproportionate share of the costs of such legislation, according to a memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The group also is worried that a House bill …

Controversial discussion and vague understandings over the safety and knowledge of this sodium by-product, formerly known as Monosodium Glutamate or MSG has impacted the public through various media outlets.  From local television, to the newspaper, to research studies, and potential restaurant menu options have posed awareness of MSG and its health hazard qualifications.  This, in itself, has either puzzled the public with a downright reality check on what he/she is consuming, or the cynical and nonchalant, careless attitude gets the best of them and denial procurement continues.  This chemical is …

ATLANTA, GA — Imported wild blackberry yogurt has been recalled for walnuts and plums not listed on its label as ingredients.
Liberté Brand Products in Quebec, Canada, has recalled all Liberté Méditerranée Wild Blackberry Yogourt, packaged in six-oz. retail plastic cups.
The Georgia Department of Agriculture says the product was distributed throughout the United States and has the UPC code 0 65684 65434 5, and an expiration date of September 2nd printed on its foil lid.
If you are allergic to walnuts, or are severely sensitive, they say you run the risk of …

Now and then I take a look at the Food Channel. The Food Channel, in case you haven’t looked lately, has changed. Once upon a time when it was younger, the Food Channel was host to a variety of cooking folks. They ranged from Paula Deen, the Southern master of butter and sweet Southern stuff, to Rachael Ray, whose hoarse voice never stops and who always seems to know where everything is in her kitchen. (She sure hasn’t been in mine lately. I can’t find anything most of the time.)
These …

When you’re shopping in the grocery store, you may notice that food packages are always labeled with the latest buzz words. Reading and understanding a nutrition label doesn’t require a degree in nutrition, but it does require that you look beyond the fancy claims on the front of the box. If you know how to read between the lines of the marketing spin, you too can know how to make the most nutritious choices without having to read the fine print.
By law, food labels must be truthful. But manufactures can …

The British Heart Foundation recommends that for a healthy heart, we should aim to eat two portions of oily fish per week. It is the Omega 3 fats found in oily fish that are thought to benefit the heart. A study by Akira Sekikawa of the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 found that the reason the Japanese have more Omega 3 in their bloodstream was unlikely to be genetic. He studied Japanese men, Western men, and those Japanese that had moved to the US and consumed a Western diet. The …

Food companies have engaged in some of the worst, self serving fraud to exploit American consumers that threaten public health and are direct contributers to the health problems in this country such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, and diabetes.
If some readers are old enough to remember, in the middle half of the 20th century, there was a law put into place by Congress issuing a food label on food products that were not what they said they were. In Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food he describes that these food …

A recent informal survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket shows prices at the supermarket decreased slightly for the third consecutive quarter.
It showed the total cost of 16 food items which could be used to prepare a meal was down by 2 percent — to a cost of $46.29. Of the 16 items surveyed, 10 decreased, five increased and one remained the same in the average price, the survey said.
Russett potatoes, boneless chicken breasts, eggs, sliced deli ham and whole milk declined the most, according to the survey.
The average …