A new research has found a way to reduce Salmonella bacteria in meat products by deploying an old technology that uses natural bacteria predators, called bacteriophages. The new technique has been developed by Assistant Professor Amilton ...
Tags: Salmonella bacteria, bacteriophages, food borne illnesses
DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced the opening of a new technical service center in Kiev, Ukraine, in a move to support dairy manufacturers in the Eastern European market. The new center, which is an addition to the company's global ...
Tags: DuPont, Dairy Firms
A team of French investigators has discovered viruses containing genes for antibiotic resistance in a fossilized fecal sample from 14th century Belgium, long before antibiotics were used in medicine. They publish their findings ahead of ...
Some may think of turkeys as good for just lunch meat and holiday meals. But bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, saw inspiration in the big birds for a new type of biosensor that changes color when exposed to chemical ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, meat
Last week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the U.K. published its Forward Evidence Plan for 2014, outlining priorities for the coming year. The plan is meant to draw the attention of potential research funders and inform stakeholders. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Food Safety
Danish food ingredients firm Chr. Hansen has unveiled next generation of its DVS STI (Direct Vat Set and Streptococcus Thermophilus Italian) cheese cultures which are designed for mozzarella and other pasta filata type cheeses. According ...
Tags: Cheese, food ingredients
The study in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture states deploying bacteriophages –types of virus – directly on to food to attack and kill harmful bacteria is becoming more popular. Recent studies “strongly ...
Biotechnology firm Intralytix has received generally recognized as safe (GRAS) certification from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its food safety product, SalmoFresh. SalmoFresh is an antimicrobial preparation for controlling ...
Tags: Intralytix, GRAS, FDA