While oil floats on water, achieving good separation and a high quality water stream is difficult. Louis van Schie explains how the Suparator oil separator is designed to carry out this exacting process. Oil/water separation is a common ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has issued a health alert, warning consumers and retailers who have purchased raw milk from Green Acres Jersey Farm, 725 Prescott Road, Lebanon, to discard it immediately due to the risk of ...
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The Institute of Food Research (IFR) has conducted a research for the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) to establish if the cooking technique sous vide is safe. Sous vide uses lower temperatures to improve food quality. This technique could ...
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The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed around 41 varieties of crops under its nuclear agriculture program. BARC has developed about 15 varieties of groundnut, mustard, soyabean, sunflower, green gram, pigeon pea, black ...
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The New Zealand government will conduct a top level inquiry into how Fonterra’s whey product, which was potentially contaminated with botulism causing bacteria, was distributed globally. Prime Minister John Key said that Fonterra's ...
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Gold Star Smoked Fish, a seafood firm based in Brooklyn, New York, is recalling various brands of Herring Fillets in Oil across the US due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The products affected by the recall are ...
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China's food watchdog, the State Food and Drug Administration, has released information on nearly 130 milk powder producers that are authorized to sell their products. It is also tightening regulation on the production of infant formula. ...
The Novotel Saigon Centre hotel has installed six Hanovia UV systems to meet its service water requirements. Novotel's flagship Saigon Centre hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has recently installed six Hanovia UV systems for service ...
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This survey reports that the use of subsurface intake systems for seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants significantly improves raw water quality. Such systems also reduce chemical usage and environmental impact, decrease the ...
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China has halted all milk powder imports from New Zealand after a bacteria that could cause botulism was discovered in products from the country's biggest milk exporter Fonterra, South China Morning Post reported. China is the largest ...
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China, Vietnam and Russia have imposed an import ban on milk powder and whey protein from the New Zealand-based Fonterra after the dairy co-operative warned that a batch of whey powder produced in 2012 may be contaminated with bacteria that ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have developed a cradle and an app that can transform an iPhone into a biosensor capable of detecting allergens in food. This device can be used by those with food allergies to ...
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US-based BioFire Diagnostics has begun clinical and analytical studies to evaluate its FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel. This clinical study is being conducted at several hospital-based clinical laboratories in the US and is funded ...
It amazes me how many people suffer from allergies stemming from dust, mold, mildew, bacteria, dust mites and countless other microorganisms that can be present throughout the home and workplace. Allergy sufferers take countless medications ...
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Through the process of food processing, it is possible to obtain a large variety of food stuffs in the supermarkets and other stores. There are a large number of food items which can seldom be stored for a long period of time as it has ...