Firm fined after worker injured by forklift truck
A UK packaging firm has been fined after a forklift truck reversed into a delivery driver’s leg, fracturing his ankle.
Archives for April 7, 2014
‘Normal’ sodium intake range may be the healthiest: study
Despite that population-wide sodium reduction is often posed as the best solution for reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence, the current sodium intake of most of the world’s population is already in line with Institute of Medicine’s definition...
FOOD SAFETY SUMMIT 2014
Hormel: Food sanitation is everyone's business
The cleanliness of a food operation should be a top priority to everyone in the industry, according to Hormel Foods.
Sluggish growth predicted for global packaged foods markets
A slowdown in global packaged food markets is expected over the next five years as supply in developed countries reaches saturation point combined with insufficient opportunities elsewhere, but health and Asia offer hope.
Russia extends pork ban for Poland and Lithuania
As of yesterday (Monday 7 April) Russia has effectively extended its African Swine Fever (ASF)-justified ban to include processed pork meat products from Poland and Lithuania, two Polish members of the European Parliament (MEP) have revealed.
dispatches from ISA conference 2014
Simplicity, not science, rules sweetener coverage
The average consumer’s desire for simplicity and the average journalist’s desire for a good headline is driving public perception of sweeteners, according to participants of a debate in Brussels.
‘A lot of room to boost pulse intakes for heart benefits’: New analysis supports cholesterol-lowering effects of pulses
One daily serving of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils may slash bad cholesterol levels, says a new meta-analysis that supports the cardiovascular benefits of pulses.
2014 SPECIAL EDITION: DRIVING UP QUALITY, DRIVING DOWN COST
Cutting ingredient costs 'should not be seen as a negative': AFI
Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI) believes that the use of cost-cutting dairy ingredients "should not be seen as a negative," despite acknowledging that quality risks "certainly do exist."
dispatches from Analytica 2014
Automated colony counting meets food testing demands
Automated colony counting ensures results are consistently the same standard when dealing with high-throughput demands, according to Synoptics.
‘Strange’: Soil Association gives verdict on Cancer Research UK organic food study
Pro-organic campaign group the Soil Association has criticised a study by Cancer Research UK and Oxford University that found eating organic foods did not lessen women’s chances of developing cancer.
FOOD SAFETY SUMMIT 2014
Food safety training must evolve to succeed
Keeping up with ever-changing regulatory requirements and increasingly complex processing environments requires an evolved approach to safety training, according to one industry expert.
CIUS calls for close monitoring in ‘uncertain’ EU sugar market
European Sugar Users (CIUS) has called on the European Commission to implement temporary market measures should sugar end stocks fall below a certain threshold amid uncertainly in the EU sugar supply.
Celiac Disease breakthrough?
Natural protein elafin ‘promising’ in battle against gluten toxicity: Study
The human protein elafin could be delivered into the gut using a probiotic bacterium to reduce the inflammatory reaction typical of celiac disease, researchers suggest.
Key Insights From Food Vision
Talking Rain CEO: Pepsi and Coke weren’t even looking at sparkling waters
Talking Rain’s Sparkling Ice brand plugs a market gap that Pepsi and Coca-Cola missed, enabling $350m in annual sales to tot up with little to no competition, its CEO says.