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World: Reduce sugar intake for health, WHO urges adults, children
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their...
Americas: Researchers find fructose more toxic than table sugar in mice
When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup...
Americas: Probiotic straws for RTD beverages, Ganeden Biotech tells FNI more
Ganeden Biotech and CapAble AB have created a telescoping GanedenBC30 LifeTop Probiotic Straw that can be used in both refrigerated and shelf stable milk...
Europe: Reduce consumer food waste by 20-50% to save US$120B a year by 2030,...
Reducing consumer food waste could save between US$120 billion and US$300 billion per year by 2030, according to a new report by The Waste...
Europe: WRAP lists five recommendations to cut food waste
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) estimates that an increase of just one day on product life across a range of foods could...
Europe: Raw garlic found to kill Bcc bacteria, researchers say
A chemical found in garlic can kill bacteria that cause life-threatening lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis, research suggests.
The study is the first...
World: Diet quality wans despite higher income, finds researchers
Overall diet quality worsened across the world even as consumption of healthier foods increased in many countries, according to an analysis of worldwide dietary...
World: Africa should improve output of tree, root crops not mimic Asia’s success, say...
African countries cannot blindly adopt food policy initiatives that spurred the Green Revolution in Asia as a way to promote agricultural development, according to...
Asia Pacific: Arla Foods to open office in Malaysia to serve China, Southeast Asian...
Arla Foods is integrating its markets in China and Southeast Asia in a new regional market called Business Unit Asia located in Kuala Lumpur,...
Europe: Food bacteria show resistance to antimicrobial drugs, finds EFSA-ECDC report
Treatment options for some of the most common food-borne infections are decreasing, as types of bacteria (called ‘isolates’) continue to show resistance to antimicrobial...