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Israel was fortunate enough to have its ducks in a row a few years ago when China, after becoming a food and supplement ingredients leader, fatally dropped the food safety ball. Israeli facilities in China operate according to already high Israeli standards, including strict kosher supervision. This “answering to a higher authority” (to borrow Hebrew National’s slogan) is a boon to purity, so ingredients such as soy proteins, fiber, citric acid, sweeteners, starches, etc. from Israeli companies and facilities at home and in the Far East could jump into the gaps when other China-based sources were being shunned or shut down.
Food production facilities in Israel benefit from the same exacting standards and practices. Every facility we saw was spotless; its ingredient makers adhere to the strictest QC standards at home as abroad. And, as a country at the crossroads of food cultures for some 6,000 years, with immigrants from more than 100 countries, Israelis know food. Look on the Prepared Foods website at http://bit.ly/U4TSk8 for my in-depth report on the companies we visited. Until then, I’d like to say thanks to Algatechnologies, Anlit, Dorot, Galam Group/NutriGal, Gan Shmuel, Gat Foods/Prigat, GreenLite Bakery/Eytan’s Bakery, Herbamed, Innobev, Lemon Tree, Lycored, Mycolivia and Novel Creation, and to Liat, Michal and the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute.
P.S. This has nothing to do with food or nutraceuticals, but it’s too cool not to pass along, especially as an example of ingenuity taken to a whole new level—it is Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni’s soon-to-market bicycle made entirely from $9 worth of recycled cardboard: http://bit.ly/P5qQ3z
Keynote Address—Bimbo: The Story Behind a Global Multilatina Company
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