Is reheated spinach poisonous?

14-Nov-2024 - A few facts about saving food: To mark European Food Waste Prevention Week from 16 to 23 November, the NRW Consumer Advice Center is clearing up misconceptions about the shelf life of food - from the edibility of spotty carrots to the myth that reheated spinach is dangerous. This year's motto of ...

What is PFAS all about?

15-Jul-2024 - Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) are persistent industrially produced compounds that can accumulate in the environment and the body. Recently, they have increasingly become the subject of public debate due to potential health risks. Nevertheless, the majority of the population is not ...

Global standards in food safety: BfR Summer Academy

Over 700 participants from 72 countries learn and network

02-Jul-2024 - New foods land on supermarket shelves every day. Some of the products have come a long way. The variety of foods is constantly growing due to imports and exports, which also increases the requirements for scientific assessments and the communication of health risks. But how is the legal and ...

Study finds resistance to critically important antibiotics in uncooked meat sold for human and animal consumptio

30-Apr-2024 - New research presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) has found substantial levels of resistance to critically important antibiotics inmeatsold for human and animal consumption. The study is by Dr Jordan Sealey, Professor Matthew Avison and ...

Why the BfR is shooting at gelatine or how the food safety of game meat can be guaranteed

24-Apr-2024 - What do soap and gelatine have to do with game meat? Quite a lot, at least at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR): the substances help to make the consumption of game meat safe for consumers. As so-called test simulants, blocks of soap and gelatine are shot at with rifle ammunition in ...

Butter and its alternatives

TÜV SÜD explains

27-Oct-2023 - Where there used to be butter and margarine in the grocery store, consumers today find the most diverse variations. From vegan butter substitutes to so-called blended spreads. In the run-up to the advent baking season, TÜV SÜD provides information on the properties of butter and butter ...

For people with diabetes, healthy eating is not enough if their diet is rich in ultra-processed foods

31-Jul-2023 - An Italian research by the I.R.C.C.S. Neuromed shows that the consumption of highly processedfoods, often industrially manufactured, increases the risk of death for people with type 2 diabetes, regardless of the nutritional quality of their diet. The very first rule for people diagnosed ...

Food safety: plasma instead of chemicals

A new method for cleaning conveyor belts in food production can replace the widely used disinfection chemicals

13-Jun-2023 - Microbial contamination can occur along the entire food processing chain. In order to minimize health risks for consumers, all production processes must be carried out safely. It is therefore common practice to clean conveyor belts with disinfectants, for example in vegetable or meat processing. ...

Sugary Drinks Tax: An Investment in the Health of Our Children

30-Jan-2023 - The introduction of the soft drinks industry levy – the ‘sugary drinks tax’ – in England was followed by a drop in the number of cases of obesity among older primary school children, according to Cambridge researchers. Taking into account current trends in obesity, their estimates suggest that ...

150 years of Melitta Bentz

15-Dec-2022 - On January 31, 2023, Melitta Bentz, the inventor of the coffee filter, would have turned 150. To this day, she remains a role model and driving force for the company she founded: the Melitta Group. Her love of coffee made Melitta Bentz world famous: In 1908, she invented the coffee filter - using ...