Food Dyes Show Promise as Quality Probes
Food dyes may be useful for more than just giving your cherry Jell-O that vivid red hue. In research described at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in early February, a team of food...
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DNA Barcode Testing of Herbal Supplements Questioned
Validity of DNA barcode testing of supplements that contain herbal extracts is being questioned following the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s order that four retailers in the state...
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Supporting Claims of Quality in Supplements
Wherever you travel around this country—and even internationally—you will likely hear the same rhetoric from dietary supplement manufacturers. Firms claim they have quality, something that their...
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Food Service and Retail Garbage Disposal Do’s and Don’ts
A garbage disposal can make food handling jobs a lot easier—having an simpler solution to dispose of all your food scraps and leftovers can make your establishment’s routine more efficient. If you want...
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Preventing Peanut Allergies with Peanuts
A recent clinical trial found that feeding peanut products to infants who are at high risk of developing peanut allergies was safe and actually led to an 81 percent reduction in developing peanut...
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Illnesses Linked with Raw Milk Increasing in U.S., Europe
Serious illnesses linked with consumption of nonpasteurized milk have increased in recent years, with most caused by Campylobacter spp. Although reports of illness associated with raw milk are...
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Most E. coli Outbreaks Linked To Beef, Vegetable Row Crops
Three federal agencies have developed a new method for analyzing the foods from 17 broad categories responsible for foodborne illness outbreaks from 1998 to 2012 that were caused by Salmonella, E coli...
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The Cumin Scandal: Accidental or Fraudulent
The ongoing recall of cumin and cumin-containing foods due to undeclared peanuts or almonds is almost certainly the result of purposeful economically motivated adulteration (EMA), food safety experts...
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Food Safety Outlook for 2015
As 2015 unfolds, federal, state, and local governments will be ramping up their oversight of food growers, producers, and processors in the drive to improve the safety and security of the nation’s...
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Best Practices for Clean in Place
In 2011, the increased public awareness of food pathogens contributed in large measure to the passage of the Food Safety & Modernization Act (FSMA), which put into place a far more rigorous set of...
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