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$40bn personalised nutrition market tapped for growth with Xampla and Lehmann tie-up

$40bn personalised nutrition market tapped for growth with Xampla and Lehmann tie-up

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The collaboration will give fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands the ability to fortify food and drink products with vitamin D by encapsulating it within Xampla’s microscopic, digestible microcapsules engineered from plant proteins. It will then be distributed to FMCG brands by Lehmann.Xampla already partners with companies including Britvic and Chinese dairy company Yili, but viewed

Labor Day food safety amid high temperatures

Labor Day food safety amid high temperatures

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Food safety becomes paramount as Americans prepare for Labor Day celebrations featuring outdoor cookouts and picnics, especially with forecasts predicting high temperatures across much of the United States. The heat adds a layer of challenge to food handling, increasing the risk of foodborne illnesses if precautions are not followed. Key practices to prevent the risks

Seafood, cocoa beans among imports that are subject to increased enforcement by FDA

Seafood, cocoa beans among imports that are subject to increased enforcement by FDA

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The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click here to go to the FDA page with links to details

Company recalls cinnamon after state testing shows elevated levels of lead

Company recalls cinnamon after state testing shows elevated levels of lead

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Asli Fine Foods of Woodridge, IL is recalling Asli Cinnamon Powder after testing showed elevated levels of lead. Short term exposures to low levels of lead may not elicit any symptoms. It is possible that increased blood lead levels may be the only apparent sign of lead exposure. Additional signs and symptoms of lead exposure

Alabama company recalls jerky because of lack of inspections

Alabama company recalls jerky because of lack of inspections

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For photos of all products included in this recall, use link in story. Hickory Hollow Jerky, a Eufaula, AL, establishment, is recalling 6,229 pounds of ready-to-eat jerky products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The beef jerky and bacon

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about the Boar’s Head Listeria Outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: What you need to know about the Boar’s Head Listeria Outbreak

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Before you watch the video, please review the last two years of FSIS Inspection Reports – https://www.foodsafetynews.com/files/2024/08/2024-08-27.pdf I also got this email from a former employee: My job has Listeria in water and I work with the water every day . Been getting short of breath lately and body sore. But don’t know. I work

New E. coli outbreak under investigation

New E. coli outbreak under investigation

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The FDA is investigating a new outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections that has sickened 25 people. The Food and Drug Administration has not reported where the patients live or how old they are. The agency has begun traceback efforts, but is not yet reporting what food or foods are being traced. E. coli is

How AI can help design proteins for the food industry

How AI can help design proteins for the food industry

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The myriad barriers and opportunities around the application of proteins in a range of novel foods is on everyone’s lips in food tech.Finding the right proteins in nature is difficult, which is why a range of technology companies are dedicated to creating and optimising ‘designer proteins’.French start-up AI Bobby, for example, uses AI to improve

Five key UPF facts for consumers published by Food Standards Scotland

Five key UPF facts for consumers published by Food Standards Scotland

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The debate around UPF is growing and consumers were becoming more aware, but not always more educated, about UPF said Food Standards Scotland (FSS).Its list of UPF facts follows a UK consumer survey that found most Brits wanted junk and UPF food manufacturers to face taxes, which they believed would help reduce UK obesity rates​.“While

Start-up that makes dairy-like fat from yeast joins Food Fermentation Europe

Start-up that makes dairy-like fat from yeast joins Food Fermentation Europe

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Food Fermentation Europe (FFE), a trade body that advocates for a faster regulatory system for fermentation-derived foods and ingredients in Europe, has welcomed a new member in Swiss biotech start-up Cultivated Biosciences.The Horgen-based start-up develops a fat ingredient by turning yeast into ‘yeast cream’ through biomass fermentation. The ingredient is neutral in taste, is GMO-