Green tea may lower blood pressure - but only for non-smokers
Green tea, but not black tea, may lower blood pressure, but this effect is cancelled out by smoking, according to a five-year study in China.
Archives for November 12, 2014
Eurofins goes colourful with sample bags
Eurofins Food Testing UK has introduced colour coded bags to transition samples through the laboratory.
Corporate responsibility programmes may create a ‘health halo’
Consumers underestimate calorie counts for, and consume more of, foods from companies with positive corporate responsibility programmes, say researchers.
Irish beef farmers protest over UK price gap
Irish farmers protested about the country’s beef price at meat plants around the country for 48 hours from 3pm on Sunday (9 November).
Salmonella typing results good for majority of labs - ECDC
Results for the typing of Salmonella were mostly good, according to a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) technical report.
Salami pot wins packaging award
A Danish packaging company has been awarded a ScanStar 2014 award for its SuperLock pot, which is used to package salami.
Tomra develops new fat analyser
Tomra Sorting Solutions exhibited its latest fat analyser at an international food event in Italy.
$75m investment yields significant improvements
Foster Farms shares data management tips that cut Salmonella rates to less than 5%
Just four months after closing the book on a 16-month long Salmonella outbreak, Foster Farms is touting incidence rates below 5% and offering its recipe for success.
Merck Millipore's agar established as basis for ISO Standard
A culture medium from Merck Millipore has become the only product validated by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for enumeration of E. coli and coliforms in water samples with low background flora.