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ICL to acquire dairy proteins company Prolactal
30 Jan 2015
Israeli company ICL’s Food Specialties business unit is to acquire Prolactal, and its subsidiary, Rovita. Prolactal, based in Hartberg, Austria, and Engelsberg, Germany, is a European producer of dairy proteins and other ingredients for the food and be...
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Corbion adds non-GMO emulsifier
30 Jan 2015
As the food and beverage industry looks for ways to take genetically modified organisms (GMOs) out of recipes and off labels, Corbion is adding another non-GMO product to its emulsifier portfolio. The newest addition, Emplex Non GMO, was developed to d...
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Kalsec demonstrates safe extraction
30 Jan 2015
As part of a recent overall safety process and formulation review initiated by Kalsec, a thermal inactivation study on Salmonella was performed on carrot pellets at an outside laboratory using a scaled representation of the proprietary Kalsec extractio...
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Stevia First announces novel fermentation method
30 Jan 2015
Stevia First has announced what it says is an important achievement and addition to its stevia production technologies. The company says it has successfully developed novel fermentation methods to produce steviol, a key step in the production of all st...
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Belgian government assesses insect consumption
29 Jan 2015
The Belgian government’s Scientific Committee and the Superior Health Council have been asked to give advice on the potential risks (hazards) associated with the consumption of these insects (entomophagy), and have produced a report. In the search for ...
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UK food/drink manufacturers reduce CO2 by 35%
29 Jan 2015
Members of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) – the voice of the food and drink manufacturing industry in the UK – have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 35%, ahead of the original target date of 2020. Emissions have fallen by 664,...
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ODIN project to study Vitamin D
29 Jan 2015
ODIN is a 4 year collaborative project with partners from all over Europe and one from the USA. The coordinator of the project is UCC and other Irish partners include the Daithi O’Murchu Marine Research Station, UCD, Crème Software Ltd (Dublin) a...
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Campden BRI announces Salmonella seminar
29 Jan 2015
Salmonella is a food-poisoning bacterium which, despite our best efforts, won´t go away, notes Campden BRI; it has been recorded as causing illness since 1885. Although a significant reduction in contamination associated with eggs and poultry has been ...
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BASF ups vitamin A production
28 Jan 2015
BASF has increased its production capacities for vitamin A by 25 %. The company has expanded an existing plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, which is part of BASF’s Citral Verbund. With this capacity extension, BASF says it reacted to the rising demand for...
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Study: oatmeal breakfast increases satiety
28 Jan 2015
A new study suggests that breakfast cereal choice may affect how full consumers feel and how much they eat for lunch, especially if they are overweight. According to new research published in the latest issue of the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, ...
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Arla adds capacity in Germany
28 Jan 2015
Arla Foods has officially inaugurated a brand-new production area at its site in Pronsfeld, near Bitburg-Prüm in the Eifel district. A total of about €110 million was invested in the construction of a new milk drying tower, a new creamery and additiona...
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Scientists discover how to unboil an egg
28 Jan 2015
UC Irvine and Australian chemists say they have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that they claim could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnolog...
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