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EFresh® provides new information about food and a different way of looking at what we eat. EFresh® uses a medical diagnostic technique called impedance plethysmography to illustrate the cellular architecture of food.
Here is a nice Presentation on EFresh® which measures food freshness,juiciness and food quality.
The Food and Drug Administration is revamping its rules on the way food manufacturers can describe the health benefits on the front of their products.
“The food and beverage industry is committed to providing consumers with the products and information they need to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle,” Pamela Bailey, the Washington, D.C.-based group’s president and chief executive officer, said in a news release.
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Everyone agrees on the importance of eating more fresh fruits & vegetables. A diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables is important to maintaining good health. The vitamins and minerals in fruit and vegetables can help reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease and high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.
Here is a nice Presentation which provides information on safety of fruits and vegetables using EFresh®
Here is a very good article on “ Food Safety for College students “ from the Food Safety news Site.
The college lifestyle is not exactly conducive to a healthy and safe eating environment. Given the academic rigor of college life, the lack of a reliable bank statement and the desire to find the next party, food safety is not quite at the top of a college student’s priority list.
As a result, the college setting can be a hotbed for unsafe food handling practices and food borne illness.
The reality is that basic food safety is incredibly simple and painless to follow. The aim is to provide students with a reliable, easy-to-follow set of food safety practices.
Obstinacy and unawareness are not worth the risk of food borne illness, so always be mindful of proper food safety practices.
Click here to read the entire article that explains the basic rules and and food safety practices
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a $17.5m investment in food and feed safety standards encompassing federal, state, and local partners.
Michael Chappell, the FDA’s acting associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, said: “These cooperative agreements support and enhance local food safety efforts. The grants are another step in the FDA’s continuing efforts to build an integrated food safety system between federal, state, and local partners.”
Comprising 83 grants, the money will be invested in four major areas: Response, intervention, innovation and prevention.
Food-borne illness
In the area of response, the grants will be used to set up the Food Protection Rapid Response Team (RRT). It will also include Program Infrastructure Improvement Prototype Project cooperative agreements designed to develop, implement, exercise, and integrate the response to all food hazards and foodborne illness.
Food Protection
Stephen Benoit, president of the National Center for Food Protection and founding member of IFPTI said: “The global interdependence of the food supply gives rise to unprecedented challenges for food protection professionals.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year food pathogens cause an estimated 76m illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the US. About one of every four Americans will develop a food-borne illness each year, it added.
Source:http://www.foodqualitynews.com
