There is a mindset difference across genders, where women often believe their workouts lack the intensity that warrants sports nutrition support, Brett Hamer, product director of the nutrition division at THG, told the audience at the recent Barentz health and wellbeing seminar on women’s health in Gstaad, Switzerland. Myprotein is actively working to educate individuals on

Six Inches is all its taking to get a conversation going. The human hand is six inches long, so is a ballpoint pen, a pencil, a standard toothbrush and the US dollar bill. Six inches of soil also feeds eight billion people and the title of a documentary-style film that is making waves within the

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company

— ADVERTORIAL — Nemis Technologies AG, a pioneering force in the field of pathogen detection, has unveiled the groundbreaking N-Light™ Salmonella Risk indicator test, marking a significant leap in real-world environmental monitoring in food processing facilities. The study, conducted in collaboration with Łukasz Richter, Product Manager at NEMIS Technologies AG, sheds light on the challenges

In France, new research has sought to compare the well-known front of pack (FOP) nutrition labelling scheme Nutri-Score (both its initial and updated version) with the Nova classification system.Researchers from Sorbonne Paris Nord University and France’s public health agency (Santé Publique France) applied both Nutri-Score algorithms and Nova to 129,950 food products in the OpenFoodFacts

The number of food recalls rose slightly in Germany last year with more than 100 because of microbial contamination. Federal states and the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) published 267 food recalls in 2023. This is similar to the 258 recalls in 2022 but up from 236 in 2021. On more

By Adriene Cooper, Senior Events Manager, Food Safety Summit Two brand new certificate courses will be offered at the 2024 Food Safety Summit including Preventive Controls for Human Foods 2.0 presented by the FSPCA and Active Managerial Control for Leaders presented by the Association for Food and Drug Officials (AFDO).  Both courses will begin on

A new E. coli outbreak under investigation by federal officials has been traced to cheese produced by a dairy that has been linked to outbreaks and recalls in the past. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with state and local health departments on the investigation that

The global body for food standards, guidelines and codes of practice, Codex Alimentarius, has published an updated standard on follow-up formula (breastmilk substitutes) for older infants aged 6-12 months, and ‘products’ (liquid of powdered drinks) for young children aged one and three​.The new standards, formally adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission​ in December 2023 after more than 10

According to a study, an outbreak of ciguatera poisoning from contaminated fish affected 19 people on a ship in Australia. The food poisoning outbreak was reported to the Central Queensland Public Health Unit in December 2021. A bulk carrier sailing from Higashiharima, Japan, to Gladstone, Australia, reported an incident of sudden illness, with 19 of