Food Packaging Industry Must Significantly Adjust BPA Levels Downwards
New European Regulation requires food packaging industry to reduce Bisphenol A specific migration limits by a factor of 12 until September this year.
Spanish OCU targets Mineral Oils in Foods
Spanish Consumer Advocacy Organization, OCU, targets mineral oils in selected food products, including popular brand names.
German Retailer Embarks on Sugar-Reducing Quest
Time to live up to your New Years’ resolutions of losing weight and living healthier. The Cologne-based retailer group REWE joined the chorus with an interesting marketing strategy. Supported by postcards with hashtag #dubistzucker (you are sugar, meaning: you are sweet), it offers consumers a sampler of its private label chocolate dessert with the original recipe and content of sugar, plus three pots, containing 20%, 30% and 40% less sugar than the original recipe.
Significant Amounts of Microplastic Found in Fleur de Sel
Fleur de Sel is a high-price product, appreciated by consumers for its flaky structure and taste. Recent studies have revealed that this product can be carrier of microplastics.
Lactalis Recalls 12 Million Packages of Infant Formula from 83 Countries
Lacatlis recalls 12 million Packages of Infant Formula from 83 Countries. Beyond the already mentioned two brand of Milumel and Picot which were already mentioned in our article from December 10, we learned that also the Taranis brand of Lactalis is affected.
Handheld Consumer Pesticide Detector wins CES Innovation Award
The electronics show in Las Vegas at the end of January showcases the latest technology innovations and awards around 100 products in different categories, from 3D printing to eco- and sustainable technologies and home appliances, and also a Handheld Pesticide Residue Detector for consumers.
Clostridium difficile benefits from Trehalose, a widely used Food Additive
Research published in Nature (Jan 3, 2018) suggests that the rise of these Clostridium infections is due to a few strains which can efficiently metabolize trehalose, a disaccharide often used in the food industry as an additive.
USP publishes new Research on Hazard Classification for Substances Used in the Fraudulent Adulteration of Foods
A project led by Karen Everstine of USP gathered experts from around the world, including from US-FDA, Pepsico, Cargill, Hyman, Phelps, & McNamara, Ebert Technical Management, UC Davis and FOCOS - Food Consulting Strategically. The goal was to develop a scheme to group substances used in food adulteration into hazard categories. This will help food manufacturers to set priorities in their vulnerability assessment.
Italian Researchers add New Tool to the Food Fraud Detection Arsenal
Italian researchers from ENEA, the national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development have added yet another tool to the box of food fraud analysts. What goes by the name of Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (LPAS for short) has already been used by researchers to characterize sugars and sweeteners. Now, researchers have used this technology to analyze samples for adulteration.
