Authority & Legal
Americas: Scientific validation, product labeling key to assuring consumers of viable health products, Frost...
Dietary supplement products, as well as health and wellness items claiming to be natural have been sold freely online, especially in the US.
With active...
Americas: Product verification emphasizes on safe processing, aids in consumer marketing, ChromaDex tells FNI
Sports nutrition supplier BPI Sports has contracted ChromaDex Corp for third-party verification of its protein products.
Going forward, the ChromaDex Quality Verified Seal will be...
Americas: Solazyme receives FDA GRAS No Questions Letter for microalgae ingredients
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a favorable response to Solazyme’s notification concluding that Whole Algal Protein is Generally Recognized as...
Europe: FAO to open liaison office in Moscow
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will open a Liaison Office in Moscow, Russia in order to strengthen cooperation links...
Asia Pacific: New Zealand embarks on two projects for safe fresh produce
New Zealand's Fresh Produce Safety Centre has launched two landmark research projects aimed at improving the safety of Australian and New Zealand fresh produce.
The...
Americas: Sidel wins patent claims against US company
Sidel has for the third time enforced its intellectual property (IP) rights on the same key innovation.
The patent claims made by Sidel against the...
Europe: BPA exposure poses no health risks, finds EFSA
Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure poses no health risk to consumers of any age group (including unborn children, infants and adolescents) at current exposure levels,...
Americas: USP proposes documents into Food Chemicals Codex, introduces guidance on food fraud
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is proposing new monographs and introducing the Guidance on Food Fraud Mitigation to be included in its Food Chemicals...
Europe: EU embarks of project against diseases
A large European Union (EU) project called COMPARE intends to speed up the detection of and response to disease outbreaks among humans and animals...
Europe: The food systems of the future need to be smarter, more efficient, says...
Increasing competition for natural resource and emerging resource bottlenecks mean that global agriculture can no longer operate using a 'business as usual' approach –...