Bharatbook.com included a new report on “The Food Ingredients Industry – Business Ratio” into its market report catalogue for reselling. 
This Report covers companies active in the food ingredients industry. The report analyses accounts filed in the three years up to 7 January 2007. Accounts with year ends falling in the 12 months up to 7 January 2007 are assigned to the third analysis period, with earlier accounts assigned to previous periods.The companies included in the Report are:
Food Ingredients Processors Aarhuskarlshamn UK Ltd Edible Oils Ltd Newly Weds Foods Ltd Abitec …

A wide-ranging review of New Zealand’s labelling laws for packaged food is likely to be run entirely by Australians.
The year-long review has a broad brief and food-safety campaigners hope it will look at contentious matters such as the disclosure on labels of genetically modified ingredients and a “traffic-light” system to show if a food is healthy or unhealthy.
Current rules covering packaged foods require at least a nutrition panel, a list of ingredients and the disclosure of various allergens.
But consumer research indicates these are poorly understood and many people rarely read …

Preservatives have been used by our ancient ancestors for centuries. Salt has long been used to preserve fish and meats. Spices and herbs preserve the flavor of foods and fruit is often preserved with sugar. Pickling cucumbers in vinegar solution is another use of preservatives. You may be surprised at the number of foods you commonly eat that contain preservatives. Your body can react to preservatives in different ways. Preservatives often cause sensitive people to experience symptoms like difficulty breathing, sneezing, skin rashes, itching or stomachaches. Some people prefer to …

Cut apples into smaller pieces, which will help in juice extraction. Crush, press, and add juice to primary fermenter with all ingredients except wine yeast. Cover primary.
After 24 hours, strain the juice from the pulp, and discard straining bag. Add yeast.
Fining and stablilizing: If you are NOT going to sparkle your cider, you should add ½ teaspoon of Potassium Sorbate per gallon to stabilize the yeast. After this is done, you’ll be able to sweeten your cider to your liking.
Any further racking should be done with the addition of 1 …

If you can recall back to Halloween 2008, there was a big scare with candy coins. The candy was tainted with melamine, a carcinogen and a toxic substance when ingested. The media alerted parents around the world and the candy was recalled but not until after several children had become ill.
Melamine is known to cause kidney and bladder complications, particularly when it is combined with other chemicals, and it has been associated with causing cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control, “Melamine is a synthetic chemical with a variety …

The 4th edition of Fi India 2009 kicked off in grandeur at the Bombay Exhibition Centre on Friday. Organised by UBM India Pvt. Ltd, in conjunction with UBM International Media BV, the two-day mega event saw the hall running full with food and beverage enthusiasts from around the world flocking at the event to strike major deals.
The event was inaugurated with the lighting of the traditional lamp by the guest of honour, Craig R Petray, CEO, Global Sweetener Trends; M Gandhi, managing director, UBM India Pvt Ltd; Nik Rudge, group …

Joshua Sharfstein, MD, FDA principle deputy commissioner, has two lists in his office—one for top priorities regarding quality and safety issued in the dietary supplement industry and another list for less urgent needs. Sharfstein says the latter list is blank. At the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s Annual Dietary Supplement Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes in Calif, Sharfstein spoke in place of Dr. Margaret Hamburg, FDA commissioner, who had to testify before the Food Safety Hearing today.
At the top of his list of priorities is tightening up policies and practices for …

Competitiveness is a necessary condition for reaping the benefits of a given EPA.  For many ACP producers, accessing the EU market is an intimidating and unrealistic expectation, despite the duty-free quota-free arrangement secured by the EPA.  Challenges include meeting the high standards for agricultural products and competing with like products on the supermarket shelf.  In this piece, Amanda Hilligas shows how with the right knowledge and an innovative approach, exporters in Southern Africa have successfully penetrated the US market.  TNI hopes the article will help stimulate debate on what meaningful …

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MILFORD, Mass., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), College Park, MD recently purchased nine Waters® ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) Systems to support its priority to protect the U.S. food supply by monitoring domestically-produced and imported food sold in interstate commerce. The new instruments will be placed within CFSAN’s Office of Regulatory Science for developing and validating robust and reproducible methods for testing food additives, pesticide residues, dietary supplements, mycotoxins, vitamins, seafood …