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New Thermostable Collagen Digesting Enzyme
This technology relates to thermostable collagen decomposing enzyme formed by a new micro-organism, and the new micro-organism and a technique for producing the said enzyme. ...
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India under fire for 'misleading' biosafety statements
[GM foodstuffs] [GM products] [engineered] [genetically engineered foods]
Such laws can take into account the stage of the country's biotechnology industry and their policies on allowing GM foodstuffs into their country, for example. ... But Sahai charges that there is no data in the public domain on allergy and toxicity tests carried out on genetically engineered crops, no environmental review of GM cotton, or an analysis of the socioeconomic impact of GM crops....
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Dominic Lawson: Don't blame free trade for food price rises
[farmer] [GM products] [ organic] [research] [tools]
I wonder if 'lock step' neo cons like the articles author have any thoughts favourable to Cuba in its attempt to introduce an 'organic' food growing regime - no GM products, non reliance upon imported fertilisers, innovative crop rotation? ... c) it is the INAPPROPRIATE and FORCED liberalisation that has helped cause the food crisis.Developed countries should not be maintaining trade distorting measures now, but poor countries should be able to.This would enable them to develop using tools that Europe and others used extensively in the past.The playing field has been tilded for so long it has...
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EFSA: help wanted!
[Food Safety] [nutrition] [chemistry]
06-Jun-2008 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is calling for Europe and the world's best scientists to come forward to assist it in processing its ever-increasing workload....
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Burns to Join Staff of K-State Research and Extension Dickinson County Office
[food safety] [Research] [nutrition] [farm]
Family and consumer sciences extension agents provide leadership in their communities by developing and delivering educational programming relative to family related issues including nutrition, food safety, parenting, financial management, health and safety. ... Burns to Join Staff of K-State Research and Extension Dickinson County Office...
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FreshFx(R) in Scalder Reduces Pathogens in Evisceration
[food safety] [Salmonella] [organic] [chemical]
SteriFx, Inc. provides pathogen control systems dedicated to reducing or eliminating pathogens for food safety, consumer, healthcare and defense markets. ... The patented formulations offer a safe and revolutionary process for pathogen elimination for the food industry....
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Wide Bay students explore their university options
[food technology] [research]
, a residential school held at UQ Gatton for students interested in pursuing a career within the fields of agriculture, animal and plant science, agribusiness, food technology and veterinary science." ... "I did quite a lot of research during year 11 and 12 and attended the Bundaberg Careers Market which was extremely helpful because it enabled me to compare different universities," she said....
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Notice to Readers: Assessment Tool for Evaluating Emergency and Disaster Shelters
[food safety] [Tool]
To help meet this challenge, CDC and partners have developed an environmental health shelter assessment form (available in English and Spanish) that covers general areas of environmental health, such as food safety, sanitation, and service and companion animal care. ... Notice to Readers: Assessment Tool for Evaluating Emergency and Disaster Shelters...
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Our Fractured Food Safety System
[Food Safety] [food science] [salmonella] [farms] [food borne] [engineered] [contaminated]
Our Fractured Food Safety System ... single cheeseburger purchased at the "to go" window of a fast food chain off any highway in America can contain a beef patty made from a hundred heads of cattle, cheese from the milk of a dozen dairy farms, lettuce from Arizona engineered to look fresh for days on end, and tomatoes "strip-mined in Texas," as Garrison Keillor once joked. ...
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Trans fats harm may pass from mother to infant in breast milk: study
[Food Science] [food processing] [Nutrition]
Paul Wassell and Niall Young from Danisco 's Multiple Food Application Group reviewed the options available to formulators and stated that designing foods with trans-fat alternatives must be a "multidisciplinary' approach" ( International Journal of Food Science and Technology , Vol. ...
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UN food summit falls short on ways to combat hunger - Summary
[GM product] [farmers]
Supporters of GM seeds and other products say they make plants resistant to diseases and pests, while opponents say the high costs of the technology make farmers, especially those in poor countries, dependent on a few large GM product manufacturing corporations. ... "A child dies of hunger every six seconds," Sheeran said, explaining that people in developing nations have been hit hardest by the hike in food prices, which have recorded a 10-per-cent increase each month since June 2007....
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Austria criticises EFSA on GMO bias
[food safety] [GM products] [organic] [farming] [research]
Some of the EU-25 environment ministershave voiced concern over the EU food safety agency's GMO authorisation procedure saying not enough independent and national studies are taken into account. ... The Austrian Presidency, backed by other member states, wants to re-open the current safety assessments done by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which, according to some member states, has approved GM products without proper research.According to EuropaBio, the member states are "undermining an institution which they themselves established, risking undermining public confidence in a scien...
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France seeks solution to EU GMO deadlock
[Food Safety] [contamination]
improving the work of scientific expertise involved in the risk assessment procedure by, for example,asking the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to take better into account the opinions of national competent authorities ;...
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Study shows low levels of BPA migration into baby bottles, say researchers
[Food Safety] [chemical] [Contaminants] [Additives] [research] [Equipment]
The European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ) recently announced its decision to review its previous advice on safe levels of BPA in food packaging and provide updates on its deliberations, following assessments from Canada and the US. ... Study shows low levels of BPA migration into baby bottles, say researchers...
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Current control measures effective against microbes in the plant air: study
[food safety] [Salmonella] [contamination] [bacteria] [hygiene] [food borne] [Research]
The most effect system to control food safety within a meat processing plant is hazard analysis critical control point ( HACCP ), which is reliant on other programs, including good manufacturing practices (GMP), good hygiene practices (GHP) and standard operating practices (SOP). ... 04-Jun-2008 - The current control measures to limit the levels of microbes in the air of pork processing plants are sufficient and effective, according to Irish scientists....
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Energy drinks safety questioned by German agency
[Food Safety]
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is in the process of assessing the status of energy drinks, with an EU-wide approach a possible consequence of that assessment. ... "As far as exposure is concerned, it is pointed out that in a Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) expert report which is still valid, reference was made to the unit of 250 ml cans for energy drinks which had been the norm up to then whereas far larger packs are now sold internationally."...
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UK public voices concern over cloned food
[Food Safety] [farmers] [farm] [research]
Based on current knowledge, there is no expectation that clones or their progeny would introduce any new food safety risks compared with conventionally bred animals," the preliminary report said. ... 05-Jun-2008 - Consumers in the UK believe risk analysis on animal cloning and products from cloned animals and their offspring entering the food chain should be as thorough as drug research, according to a survey published today by the Food Standards Agency (FSA)....
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Forced sheep tagging not viable, says meat industry
[farmers] [food safety] [farm]
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) has been even more scathing in their attack on the EID policy, claming the current system of ID and batch recording already sufficiently ensures food safety and disease control. ... Besides the practical issues, the group adds that it is particularly concerned at the costs involved of being forced to adopt the system, both for hardware, software and training....
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