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- 02 May
April 4, 2019 The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has announced the launch of the SMART Broiler, a research initiative offering $4 million for research supporting the development and commercialization of automated monitoring tools that quantitatively assess key […]
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- 09 Apr
USDA Launches New Nutrient Database
- Apr 09, 2019
- Kelly Tessitore
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- food database, USDA
April 4, 2019 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) has released an integrated food and nutrient data system that provides online access to nutrient profile information about a wide variety of foods and food products. The […]
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- 08 Mar
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard states an absolute compliance date of January 1, 2022, and an implementation date of January 1, 2020. In the interim (up until December 31, 2021), companies may voluntarily disclose bioengineered (BE) foods and food […]
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- 08 Mar
Ginkgo Bioworks, a biotech company that designs microbes to make various products, recently announced its new spinoff company,Motif Ingredients. And to start, Motif Ingredients announced that they raised a massive $90 million in Series A round of funding. This is […]
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- 08 Mar
The National Academies of Sciences released new recommendations on dietary intake of sodium and potassium Tuesday after 18 months of study, and for the first time tied overuse of sodium, which people typically get in salt, to chronic disease. The […]
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- 08 Mar
According to The Washington Post, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, resigned March 5, effective in about a month. During his tenure, Gottlieb has supported and advanced food safety, labeling initiatives, and standards of identity. More recently, he […]
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- 08 Jan
Refined foods that do not contain detectable levels of modified genetic material. Most corn starch or soybean oil would not contain detectable levels of modified genetic material even if derived from bioengineered crops. Pet foods are not covered by the […]
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- 23 Oct
Guide to Gluten-Free Labeling
- Oct 23, 2018
- Kelly Tessitore
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- gluten free
For some people with celiac disease or a gluten sensitivity, living gluten-free is necessary for their health. In addition, a growing number of people are choosing to eliminate gluten from their diets. Many health gurus and celebrities today have encouraged […]
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- 18 Sep
In coordination with the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the public call for nominations to the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). The independent advisory committee will review the […]
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- 12 Sep
Date marking, code dating, or coding are common ways of adding a ‘Quality Date’. I prefer to call it ‘date coding’ since it expresses the best date of quality and often used to trace the product to the lot. This […]
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