Food technologyis the application of food science to the selection,preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe food. Related fields include analytical chemistry, biotechnology, engineering, nutrition, quality control, andfood safetymanagement. ...
In March 2015 I introduced readers to Safe Food Canada: The Learning Partnership (SFC). This month's column is an update on recent developments and SFC's plans for the future. Food safety learning in Canada is fragmented and there is much duplication of effort and expense. Since there is ...
The current global food system cannot provide healthy and safe diets inclusively and sustainably [1]. Poor diets account for a significant number of deaths, estimated, for instance, at 1-in-5 deaths in 2017 [2]. Poor diets, including the low intake of whole grains and fruits and the high...
When and where food is not safe, many of the SDGs will remain out of reach. Since its establishment in 1945, FAO has been leading the international community's effort to improve global food safety and quality through several major programs: (1) the provision of sound, independent scientific...
Ensure on-farm businesses to meet the Safe Food for Canadians Act and Regulations requirements; Achieve third-party HACCP based food safety certifications through nationally/internationally recognized third party food safety certifying bodies; Ensure foods processed in BC are among the safest both national...
Food processors are choosing enzymes as a cost-effective and safe alternative to synthetic chemicals. Another driver for the growth of the market is the improvement of product quality through these enzymes. Food enzymes are used as additives to modify organoleptic, rheological, and nutritional properti...
Most of us in the safe energy / renewable energy movement, who are fighting to have a more responsible approach to the long-term management of radioactive waste — including not producing more of this stuff — believe that now is the time to speak up loud and clear in opposition to these...
Food sampling may be a method used to make sure a food is safe which it doesn't contain harmful contaminants, or that it contains solely permissible additives at acceptable levels, or that it contains the correct levels of key ingredients and its label declarations square measure correct, or ...
This conference’s theme: Delivering Safe Food in Turbulent Times: The Need for Agility & Resilience centered around how climate change, global political instability, and supply chain disruptions have affected access to safe food. What is GFSI? The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is a ...
Food sustainability is based on a food system concept that brings nutritional, secure, safe, healthy, and affordable food for all. Sustainable food systems are economically fair and profitable (economic sustainability) and are environmentally friendly, respecting biodiversity and ecosystems, and are conce...