Fish gelatine is rising in importance as an alternative to bovine and porcine gelatine – but there are still challenges in terms of supply, extraction and functionality.
People tend to choose larger portions of foods when they are marketed as ‘healthy’, suggests new research led by a team from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.
Incentivising the sale of healthy foods at the supermarket checkout could be more effective than food taxation for improving food choices, suggests a letter published in the BMJ.
The creation of the first pan-European network of excellence for clinical trials in nutrition and health products will mean greater expertise in trial design and options for large scale multi-centre trials, say the people behind the CRENnet partnership.
Top public health professor David Dausey warns that increasing global supply chain complexity carries with it a greater risk of product contamination, with potentially disastrous results for dairy brands and public health, and a growing need to ensure product safety.
Retailers have been accused of double standards for demanding high levels of food safety from suppliers, while playing down the amount of products contaminated with foreign objects they sell, claimed product inspection firm Mettler Toledo.
Genetic modification of oil seed crops will form an important part of the future omega-3s supply picture, according to Adam Ismail, executive director of the Global Organization of EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED).