Noticias sobre la Salud y Nutrición de Bélgica

Snack makers on the alert for acrylamide formation in their baked products have a new tool at their disposal to rapidly analyse asparagine levels.   Thermo Fisher Scientific claims its automated photometric method is a "simple and effective&quo...

A deal on two pieces of EU legislation banning a number of highly toxic chemicals within pesticides and reducing pesticide use has been reached between MEPs and representatives of European Union member states.Under the first, according to the agreement...

At Health Ingredients Europe, the Dow Chemical Company introduced Satisfit, a new weight management ingredient this week, which it claims has been shown to block the absorption of saturated and trans-fats in pre-clinical trials.

Research by economists at the University of Warwick, Dartmouth College, and the University of Leuven, finds that people are powerfully but subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them.

Efforts to reduce acrylamide remain a priority as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concludes risk assessments regarding the carcinogen will stay the same. EFSA organised a scientific colloquium in Italy last month, to debate how the current po...

Klanten van frietkramen in Zaventem kunnen zich vanaf maandag naast frieten en vlees ook een groentesnack aanschaffen die kok Frank Fol speciaal ontwierp voor frituren. Het gaat om een initiatief van het regionale gezondheidsoverleg Centrumlogo en de f...

The EFSA Panel on additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact with food (AFC) is working on a systematic evaluation of the safety of flavouring substances currently in use in the European Union (EU). A programme for their evaluatio...

Now the proceedings are published of the conference "Food in Action"that was held on 29 - 30 November 2007 in Brussels. Full powerpoint presentations plus audio are available online, providing a great way to review these presentations.The cen...

Acrylamide in food could increase the risk of developing breast cancer, according to new, EU-funded research published in the International Journal of Cancer. Acrylamide is a small molecule found in certain processed foods. 'Animal tests have shown acr...

Acrylamide formation in heated food became a totally new research field, when its presence in various foods was revealed in 2002. The EU Commission reacted swiftly and in DG Research Framework Programme 6 (FP6) a strategic targeted research project, ...

The sweet and salty snack industry has suffered a lower sales growth rate in 2007 due to negative press over rising obesity rates, but sales still increased by almost two per cent in 2007, according to Euromonitor analyst Irina Kazanchuk.PepsiCo has b...

EU regulators and processors say they are examining the use of diacetyl for foods, following reports of hundreds of US workers falling ill from a deadly lung disease linked to the inhalation of the popcorn flavouring chemical."The experts of the ...