Margarine passes the PAH test
Investigations into the levels of the carcinogenic PAH compounds in margarines find that all are within recommended limits, challenging earlier findings from a Swedish consumer organisation.
Archives for June 26, 2003
Here's to hygiene
The Oxoid Awards for Beer Quality and Brewery Hygiene have recognised a number of innovative moves in the field, with the first prize given to a comprehensive training package to promote hygiene.
Bars for bones
Could a fruit bar a day be the answer to osteoporosis? Trials of a new food product enriched with phytoestrogens could provide women with a tasty alternative to HRT.
Regulators and market truth
Bill Grimsey, chief executive of the Big Food Group which owns the Iceland retail chain, has welcomed the suggestion that Morrisons is leading the bidders for Safeway, but repeated calls for a more intelligent assessment of the UK retail sector as a...
A storm in a tea cup?
A storm is brewing over the UK's national beverage as scientists clash over the perfect cuppa. Is it physics, or chemistry?
Blue food bursting with health
Imagine eating purple bread, purple vinegar or blue noodles. Now imagine that they are good for you. Food scientists in Australia have come up with natural food colours that also give a boost to the health.
CAP: dilution or development?
The beginning of a new era? An historic moment? Or a plain old compromise? All have been used to describe yesterday's agreement by EU farm ministers to approve hotly disputed reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy.
Exiting president reflects on EU research
As the Greek EU Presidency comes to a close, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology has published a report outlining a series of guidelines to further the implementation of a European Research and Innovation Area (ERIA), writes CORDIS.