There is a perennial debate about drinking milk – is it good for one’s health or does it cause health issues; accumulation of fat, allergies/ailments due to lactose intolerance and more. However, mothers have never paid any heed to such debates. They believe that milk is a must for their children and age doesn’t […]
What is Pasteurization?
Pasteurization is a heat treatment food preservation method that kills a part of the microorganisms present in the food. Therefore, this technique is used for foods that can be stored and further handled under suppressed microbial growth conditions. Owing to the low heat treatment process, the nature of the food would not […]
Introduction
Good laboratory technique demands clean glassware because the most carefully executed piece of work may give an erroneous result if dirty glassware is used. In all instances, glassware must be physically and chemically clean and in many cases, it must be bacteriologically clean or sterile. All glassware must be absolutely grease-free. The safest criterion […]
Transparency. It’s been top of mind for years. But because of the shift in public’s interest in healthy ingredients and where they come from, businesses are responding by making transparency part of their strategic business initiatives. This includes providing a complete list of ingredients, known allergens and their nutritional information. They also want to […]
Life Technologies, a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced at the International Association of Food Protection annual meeting the launch of the MicroSEQ(R) E. coli O157:H7 assay, designed to detect the deadly strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli), using the company’s industry-leading real-time PCR technology.
Life Technologies Corporation is a global biotechnology tools company […]
Food gets a lion share in total consumption expenditure of households ranging from 38.5% in urban to 48.6% in rural India (2011-12). India’s food processing sector is growing at an average rate of 8.4% (2008/09-2012/13) to meet an internal as well as global demand. It is also ranked sixth in the world in exporting […]
What is USDA certification?
Certification is the process by which the consumer is assured that a product marketed as “organic” is in compliance with production and handling requirements set forth in USDA regulations.
All producers of organic food, livestock, and fiber crops as well as handlers or organic products must be certified (except growers who gross […]
Organic food is food produced by methods that comply with the standards of organic farming.
Organic products are grown under a system of agriculture without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides with an environmentally and socially responsible approach. This is a method of farming that works at grass root level preserving the reproductive and regenerative capacity of the […]
FSSAI has permitted the import of certain special food formulations for personal use on the basis of a signed declaration. The FSSAI has permitted the import of these food articles keeping in mind that a number of patients require these special foods which are prescribed to them by their doctors.
Certain patients face life threatening […]