The National Milk Producers Federation has noted, as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) precautionary, routine monitoring of milk, water and select other products for radiation, the EPA reported that extremely low levels of iodine-131 were found in milk samples collected in Spokane, Wash., and San Luis Obispo, Cal.
A unique new position at the University of Guelph will help consolidate knowledge about sustainable food practices and make that knowledge more accessible.
The color dyes used to brighten cereals, snacks and drinks help make some children hyperactive and should be banned or at least carry a warning, critics are telling U.S. government advisers.
Growing demand from the emerging segment of nutraceuticals is driving the global consumption of Indian spices further at a time when the country is straining to meet the needs of the traditional food sector.
U.S. brewer Goose Island said it had agreed to be taken over by Belgian sector player Anheuser-Busch InBev, to ensure cash needed to expand its distribution in Chicago and the Midwest, as well as to boost production to match consumer demand.
A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has found that levels of five amino acids not only indicated increased type II diabetes risk in a general population, but could also differentiate, among individuals with traditional risk factors such as obesity, those most likely to actually develop diabetes.
Hormel Foods Corporation named Scott Aakre vice president of corporate innovation and new product development, and Whitney Velasco-Aznar is joining the company and assuming Aakre’s previous position as vice president of marketing for Grocery Products.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responding to objections and is denying requests that it has received for a hearing on the final rule which amended the food additive regulations to provide for the use of a bacteriophage preparation as an antimicrobial agent against Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products.
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