Archives for August 12, 2004

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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...

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.