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.
Saputo Inc. completed the transaction announced on February 17, 2011, and acquired Fairmount Cheese Holdings Inc., the parent company of DCI Cheese Company Inc. (DCI).
U.S.-based Dawn Foods will buy Unifine Food & Bake Ingredients from Dutch ingredients and foodstuffs group Royal Cosun, the vendor said without providing financial details.
After tackling the chemistry of coffee, tea, fruit juices, soda pop, beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages, experts have now tackled the chemistry of the Mount Everest of cocktails, the Bloody Mary.
A new regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of sodium ferric ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) in or on all food commodities when applied as a molluscicide and used in accordance with good agricultural practices.
Adults and children can reduce their exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals, including bisphenol-A (BPA), by eating more fruits and vegetables and less food from plastic containers and metal cans, a new study says.
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