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Ohio's ongoing regulatory debate about how best to label milk derived from cows treated with growth hormones has taken another turn with the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) revising a rule that restricted 'free from' claims.
A UK-based food supplements comparison website has launched today that rates the 20,000+ products on-market there in a bid to provide consumers with unbiased purchasing advice.
Products containing high fructose corn syrup cannot be considered 'natural' and should not be labeled as such, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said.
Ingredient manufacturer Ganeden Biotech claims its durable probiotic ingredient is contributing to the development of a new level of probiotic use in foods due to its flexibility.
'Growing up in an obesogenic environment', 'Have we sacrificed our children on the altar of a free market?', 'Endocrine disrupters and obesity - old chemicals, new questions' and other presentations will lead a UK symposium next month.
Studies are underway to investigate the use of galacto-oligosaccharides to protect animals from salmonella infection, both to reduce the risk of the bacteria entering the food chain and increase knowledge on prebiotics' benefits.