News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Consumers in the UK can eat their porridge safe in the knowledge that their oat products are free from harmful toxins - mycotoxins - after an extensive survey in the UK found very low traces, if none at all, of the contaminant in a range of food products.
A wide range of organic or health food products on sale in the UK contain traces of genetically modified (GM) ingredients, according to a study due to be published in April, reports CORDIS.
In a move to protect home markets Chinese corn processor Global Bio-chem will link up with Japan's Mitsui & Co to develop, manufacture and sell the bulk reduced calorie sweetener sorbitol in China under a new joint venture company.
German sugar giant Suedzucker willl break ground on a new plant to produce bioethanol fuel from wheat at Zeitz in East Germany. Earmarked for completion by 2005, the plant will operate in conjunction with the local sugar factory.
Red clover isoflavones may help to protect women, recently advised to stop using HRT, from the risk of osteoporosis, suggests new research that shows a protective effect of the supplement on the lumbar spine.