Grocery watchdog will have "astonishingly low budget"
The new watchdog tasked with policing supermarkets’ dealings with suppliers will still have teeth, despite its “astonishingly low” budget, government officials have insisted.
Archives for August 2, 2010
DSM ‘record’ results boosted by nutrition
DSM today reported what it calls the best quarter in its history, with operating profit almost tripling compared to last year.
Industry challenges ‘misleading’ sweetener-premature birth study
A study linking consumption of artificially sweetened beverages to an increased risk of preterm births has been dismissed by the sweetener industry as ‘misleading’ and ‘not plausible scientifically’.
EFSA needs more data on furan formation in foods
The European Food Safety Authority is urging member states to step up monitoring of the carcinogen furan in food products, in a bid to amass enough data to inform a dietary risk assessment.
Study supports concerns over meat additive-cancer link
A new epidemiological study has reported modest support for suggestions that some components in processed meat may increase risk of bladder cancer.
Solae: EFSA soy-cholesterol opinion is “disconcerting”
Leading soy supplier Solae has criticised the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for a selective approach that saw the agency’s health claims panel dismiss upward of 30 human intervention studies contained in an article 14, soy protein,...