Archives for August 12, 2004

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Risk assessment completed on deadly food pathogen

Pinpointing the role risk analysis can play in controlling deadly food pathogens in the food chain two UN-backed organisations have prepared a microbiological risk assessment on the hardy organism Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods sold by...

Takeda to sell off vitamins joint venture

Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda will sell off its stakes in five non-core joint ventures, including the vitamins business that it operates with Germany's BASF, according to reports.

Tagatose chocolate has low GI

Food makers will be encouraged to use a low-calorie sweetener supplied by Danish ingredients firm Arla Food Ingredients with a new study showing a chocolate bar made with the prebiotic ingredient is very low in glycaemic load (GL) and glycaemic index...