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An International Task Force to Speedily Launch the World Agriculture Organization
[Food Safety]
Let's not forget that only 4% of public aid to development is earmarked for agriculture, aid that accounts for less than 0.4% of the world GNP; - Let's not forget that the current crisis was not foreseen by prospective models since none are tailored to agriculture's specificities and its inherent significant price volatility; - Let's not forget that food safety is a fundamental stake for the future of mankind and that we must implement an international system of regulations in agricultural markets; - And last but not least, let's not be mistaken: Many consider that agricultural prices will rem...
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Group Urges FDA Food Coloring Ban
[additives] [Food Safety] [chemicals] [Tools]
"Also note that the European Food Safety Agency has a similar view as FDA's." ... Article Tools...
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Procurement short course gives participants tools to manage risk
[food processing] [tools]
Participants from Brazil, Italy, Monaco, Nigeria, South Africa, Trinidad, the United States and Venezuela represented flour mills, food processing and grain supply companies. ... Procurement short course gives participants tools to manage risk...
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IFT Announces the 2008 Congressional Support for Science Award Winners
[food science] [Food Safety] [Food Technologists] [nutrition] [farm] [farming]
WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute of Food Technologists, the not-for-profit scientific society for food science and technology, today announced the recipients of the 2008 Congressional Support for Science Award. ... IFT Announces the 2008 Congressional Support for Science Award Winners...
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Rimer Enterprises Offers Complete Investment Casting Capabilities
[food processing] [machine] [tool] [equipment] [tooling]
Several years ago Staten Island Machine Shop began having some of the parts they previously had sand cast instead supplied by Rimer Enterprises (Waterville, OH), that serves a variety of industries ranging from railroad to food processing. ... In the fabrication of precise and intricate metal shapes, this process offers tool & die makers, machine shops and their customers superior finishing plus significant savings of time, material and labor....
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Dr. Cynthia M. Goody Appointed Director of Nutrition for McDonald's(R) USA
[Nutrition] [Food Science]
Goody holds PhD and Master's degrees from The University of Iowa, a Master's degree in Food Science and Human Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences Education as well as a Bachelor's degree in Food and Nutrition, Dietetics from Iowa State University. ... Working with McDonald's U.S. executive leadership, Menu Management, Supply Chain, Suppliers, Owner/Operators and Staff, Goody will provide nutritional science expertise and oversee the company's nutritional information development process....
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National Starch expands certified organic starch offerings
[organic] [food processing]
Functional native starches are described as starches that give similar food processing characteristics to modified starches. ... "The organic trend shows no sign of waning," said Laura Goodbrand, marketing manager, wholesome, and National Starch Food Innovation. ...
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Globalisation raises food safety fears, says microbiologist
[food safety] [Microbiology] [farmers]
Globalisation raises food safety fears, says microbiologist ... 04-Jun-2008 - The trend towards importing more food from developing countries is opening up Western countries to greater food safety risks, says a US microbiologist, and food processors have a duty to conduct the necessary checks....
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Worker attitude affects food safety
[food safety] [food borne]
Worker attitude affects food safety ... Food service workers' attitudes toward safety practices have a direct effect on food-borne illnesses in restaurants, U.S. researchers say....
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Why we need GM foods
[GM foods] [farm] [Farmers] [nutrients] [chemicals] [machinery]
Why we need GM foods ... But the refusal to use the biotech tool of modern agriculture, in essence the same as the plant development which has been going on since the first wheat-type plants were discovered by the Assyrians beside the Euphrates, will alter with non-availability of traditional foods. ...
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Premier Technology Announces Upgrade and Expansion of Pocatello Facility
[food processing] [equipment] [engineering]
In addition, for more than a decade Premier has been the leader in the design, manufacture and installation of food processing equipment. ... For the DOD, Premier is providing state-of-the art equipment to support global demilitarization and non-proliferation efforts of key U.S. government agencies. ...
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Healthy Intestinal Bacteria Found Within Chicken Eggs
[Bacteria] [food safety] [Microbiology] [food borne] [tools]
Lead author Adriana Pedroso said the finding, presented this week at the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting in Boston, could have important implications for the poultry industry and for food safety. ... ScienceDaily (Jun. ...
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Natural anti-browning agents give fresh cut fruit potential
[Food Science] [Food Technology] [spoilage] [nutritional] [research]
The compounds hexylresorcinol, N-acetylcysteine, and glutathione all reduced the browning of Fuji apple pieces over a 14 day period, with results significantly better than vitamin C (ascorbic acid), according to findings published in the Journal of Food Science . ... 03-Jun-2008 - Natural sulphur containing-compounds may prevent the browning of fresh-cut fruit, and offer a more potent alternative to vitamin C, suggests new research from Spain....
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ThermoEnergy Insider Increases Investment in Company
[food processing] [contaminated] [Research]
Our wastewater treatment systems have application in aerospace, food processing, metal finishing, refineries, manufacturing and municipal wastewater. ...
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WA Govt urged to rethink GM crops moratorium
[GM food] [Farmers]
This follows Premier Alan Carpenter saying there should be a national approach to labelling and controlling GM food. ... The WA Farmers Federation believes adequate testing of GM foods has been done and says the state will be left behind if it does not start developing GM crops....
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KARACHI: Fruit ripened by calcium carbide can be lethal
[chemical] [food science] [farmers] [research] [nutritional]
About the use of the chemical agent in fruit ripening, Dr Abid Hasnain of Karachi Universitys department of food science and technology said that when calcium carbide comes in contact with moisture, it produces acetylene gas, which is quite similar in reaction to the natural ripening agents produced by fruit known as ethylene. ... This reporter contacted different educational and research institutions in the country, including the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, to find a local study on the subject, but failed. ...
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