All Food safety articles – Page 4
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OpinionUsing microbes to explore new flavours
Microbes are often enemies in the kitchen, but when used can add new dimensions to cooking
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Podcast
Arsenic trioxide
How a ‘daft’ pharmacy mix up led to a series of poisonings in Victorian Britain
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News
New database offers one stop shop for food safety hazards
Tool brings together safety information from Europe’s food safety agency
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Research
Traffic light label indicates food freshness
Ammonia gas diffusion basis for inexpensive colour-changing food freshness label
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Feature
Could artificial meat save the planet?
As meat production becomes unsustainable, Dinsa Sachan investigates the new industry of meat substitutes
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News
Taiwan moves to create chemical safety agency
Government plans to establish a bureau to oversee chemicals following a serious food contamination scandal in 2011
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Research
PCR probes purity of pork products
Double gene targeting technique distinguishes between closely-related species in meat products
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Research
Glowing polymer highlights mercury in fish
Portable fluorescent probe allows quick and easy detection of toxic pollutant
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Podcast
Book Club – Sorting the beef from the bull
This month we discuss the ubiquitous nature of food fraud and its detection
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Opinion
Why we need an allergic reaction
Michael Walker calls for a grand vision to protect people with food allergy
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Research
Test to tell if your mince is telling porkies
Metabolites offer a new way to check for ham in your hamburger
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News
Updated European regulation spells uncertainty for food nanomaterials
Questions over nanomaterial definition could hamper use in foods
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News
Review calls for tighter controls on antibiotic use in farming
Legally binding targets are needed to tackle resistance worldwide, latest report says
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News
European food safety body finds glyphosate 'unlikely' to cause cancer
Report sits at odds with WHO viewpoint and may lead to introduction of dosage limits
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News
Pepsi sets limit on caramel colouring chemical
Firm establishes legal threshold for the caramel food colouring by-product 4-MEI that California lists as a carcinogen
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Podcast
Sodium azide
Raychelle Burks finds out how Potbelly’s patrons became poisoning patients, in the mystery of the sodium azide-laced iced tea
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Research
Alternative nutraceutical delivery method proposed
Alternatives address safety concerns about surfactant-based emulsifiers
