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Food Safety’s Biggest Challenge: The American Diet

Americans are rightly concerned about the wide variety of pathogens that regularly turn up in foods common to most diets. Dietary and lifestyle factors in the US are responsible for death rates that exceed most other Westernized countries.

Few of us probably sufficiently ascribe the quality of our diet to our basic state of health.
And so as 2010 unfolds, take time to consider the fundamentals of your diet and the critical food safety issue it represents. Contaminated foods can certainly result in very serious illness, but a good diet can help ensure long-term health.

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EFresh® Technology Measures Quality of Food

EFresh® provides new information about food and a different way of looking at what we eat. It is based on a simple and straightforward concept that utilizes electricity to illustrate the cellular architecture of food (or any biological entity).

The EFresh® device applies an advanced clinical medical technology to objectively and accurately assess and report

1. Food Freshness and Palatability.
2. Meat tenderness (Beef tenderness and determine optimal aging).
3. Spoilt Food (Unsafe food).

Use of EFresh® provides an objective proof of quality and a unique opportunity to further distinguish your brand and build better customer relationships.

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Tags: food juiciness, Food palatability, food quality, food quality measurement, Fresh Food, fresh vs frozen, Measure flavor, measure food safety, measure of freshness, Measuring bacteria on the food, meat quality, meat tenderness, Quality of Food

Food Quality Measurement with EFresh®

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.

Tags: Food Freshness, food quality, juiciness

FDA launches a $17.5m boost to Food and Feed Safety

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

Tags: food hygiene, food quality, Food safety, food testing

New Technology For Poultry Safety

Found a Great news about Poultry Safety at foodqualitynews.com

New technology developed by the US Government that automatically scans poultry carcasses for contamination has been successfully tested in a commercial plant.

The US Agricultural Research Service (ARS) said it has improved a hyperspectral imaging system so that it can detect small amounts of fecal contamination in poultry. Hyperspectral imaging is a technique that combines digital imaging with spectroscopy, creating individual wavelengths of light that pinpoint contaminants.

The ARS, which is part of the US Department of Agriculture, said the projects its priority of ensuring food safety.

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Tags: food quality, Food safety, Poulty safety