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Spray washing chicken carcasses with a solution of lauric acid and potassium hydroxide could help processors design practical and non-chlorine-based sanitisers, said the US Agricultural Research Service (ARS).The body, which is part of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), said the work was carried out as part of its mission to develop alternatives to chlorine rinses – which are banned in the

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A revolutionary UHT milk processing system slashes production time by up to 90 per cent, cuts operating costs in half and reduces capital outlay by almost a third compared to conventional equipment, said Tetra Pak.The processing and packaging company described its OneStep aseptictechnology “as a revolution when it comes to efficiency of processing UHT milk”.The single and

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Beverages formulated with stevia are preferred by consumers over similar products sweetened with sugar or other common high intensity sweeteners, says new research from Croatia.Cocoa beverages formulated with stevia produced “the most balanced attributes” when tested by a panel of 15 tasters, according to findings published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food

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A revolutionary microwave sterilisation processing technique has been developed over a 13-year period by WSU professor Juming Tang and a team of university, industry and US military scientists. The technology received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance late last year to process mashed potato and the group is currently working on authorisation for other foods.   The

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Stevia supplier GLG Life Tech has announced that it is looking to develop agricultural and extraction facilities for stevia in India, as well as market its stevia extracts in the nation. GLG Life Tech has said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with India-based Global AgriSystem Private Limited, a Katra Group company, to pursue the commercialization of stevia sweeteners in India.

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Writing in Food Chemistry, scientists at the Illinois Institute of Technology were particularly concerned that UV-treatment of juices containing HFCS may lead to the formation of furan – a volatile aromatic compound and suspected carcinogen. A previous study indicating that furan formation during UV-treatment arose from fructose, and not from glucose or sucrose, sparked the concern about

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Research, published in Food Microbiology, investigated the efficacy of gaseous ozone on the inactivation of Escherichia coli ATCC 25922 and NCTC 12900 strains in apple juice of a range of pH levels, using an ozone bubble column. The pH levels investigated by the researchers based at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland were 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5 and 5. Previous research reported that

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Bangalore-based BioPlus Life Sciences manufactures sucralose using a process it claims does not infringe any of Tate & Lyle's patents and is itself supported by a suite of patents. BioPlus vice president Joe Zannoni told FoodManufacture.co.uk that he predicted “continued growth of existing products containing sucralose currently on the market as well as new product launches containing

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Solae said its Cenergy FMS ingredient contains a mixture of protein, soluble and insoluble fibre from the soybean cotyledon – the part of a seed embryo that becomes the first leaves of a seedling. According to the company, the combination of these components results in the ingredient’s ability to control purge, increase water retention and improve cooking yields in ground meat applications.

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Results from animal studies that indicated sucralose could modify the absorption of glucose in the intestine were not observed when the sweetener was fed to humans, according to findings published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital also report that consumption of the sweetener did not affect levels of a hormone

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The tropically-sourced Morinda citrifolia or noni plant including beverages, beauty, and weight loss lines, has already received approval for its noni juice and its noni leaves under the bloc’s Novel Foods regulation. The novel foods approval decision of 21 April published in the Journal of the European Union states that: “…On the basis of the scientific assessment, it is established that

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The report, The Global Market for Intense Sweeteners, says that stevia-derived sweeteners are driving the move away from additives and ingredients that are perceived as artificial, and it already accounts for 14 percent of the intense sweeteners market, up from just one percent in 2007. “Stevia represents one of the most dynamic sectors within the global intense sweeteners market by far,

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Tetra Pak has claimed that its Operational Cost Reduction (OCR) programme for dairy and juice firms cuts the cost of running a packaging line by an average of 12 per cent. The processing and packaging firm first introduced the programme back in 2008 to help customers running dairy, juice, and nector factories to drive effeciecies and cut costs. By setting up the consulting service, Tetra

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The new Milk Origin Verification Solution (MOVS) is based on the fact that every country has a unique stable isotope signature comprising ratios of varied oxygen, and hydrogen isotopes. Picarro, the gas analyser supplier said that by working with researchers at Purdue University, IsoForensics has been able to maps stable isotope ratios of regional food and water supplies across the US.

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The APPLES (Advanced Process and Production Light Enabled Sensors) project is run by a consortium comprising GlaxoSmithKline, fermentation technology expert Green Biologics and the Centre for Processing Innovation (CPI). It is led by Stratophase, a spin-off from the University of Southampton best known for its SpectroSens optical microchip sensor for monitoring fluids in-line. The

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Using 2007 data, the FAO found that this figure was 1 969m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent, a standard measure for comparing emissions of different GHGs. In fact, carbon dioxide is only responsible for a small proportion of the total, especially in developed nations, with methane accounting for 52 percent of the GHG emissions. The headline 1 969m CO2 equivalent figure translates

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During ohmic heating, food serves as an electrical resistor, and is rapidly heated by passing an electrical current through it. The electrical energy is dissipated into heat, which results in rapid and uniform heating and eliminates burning, fouling on heat transfer surfaces and overcooking. The technology was particularly well-suited for heating canned liquid foods containing large

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The positive opinion issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) last week for stevia extracts with at least 95 per cent purity of steviol glycosides paves the way for EU-wide approval next year. This news has been greeted by a media buzz and welcoming noises from the stevia suppliers but market data from Mintel suggests that it may only prove significant in the long term. In the

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Political decisions encouraging biofuel production from palm oil is causing deforestation in Indonesia and not the low tonnage sourced by Kit Kat maker Nestlé, according to the chairman of the Swiss based food company. In reply to a question from a Greenpeace representative about deforestation at Nestlé’s annual general meeting in Lausanne, the food group’s chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

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Leading companies and trade groups in the beverage industry have clubbed together to draw up guidance for greenhouse gas (GHG). Big names from across the industry from Diageo to the Coca-Cola Company and the American Beverage Association joined the BIER to develop the united approach to GHG reporting. The new document built on existing global protocols including the Greenhouse Gas

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There's a new coffee on the horizon. The centuries-old Malaysian Kopi, named Asia's best coffee by The Wall Street Journal, is a must-have for serious coffee lovers. With its distinctive burnt flavor derived from roasting coffee beans with butter and sugar, kopi is quite different from the brews sold throughout the U.S. Coffee historians believe that bitter-tasting Liberica beans from

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Because ozone is a safe, powerful disinfectant, it can be used to control biological growth of unwanted organisms in products and equipment used in the food processing industries. Ozone is particularly suited to the food industry because of its ability to disinfect microorganisms without adding chemical by-products to the food being treated, or to the food processing water or

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Silicate product: good on fats removal, but bad on stainless steel surface. when drying, deposit is hard to remove.

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Post-process cleaningPre-process cleaningIn-process cleaning

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TimeActionChemical ConcentrationTemperatureWaterIndividualNature of SoilSurface to be cleaned.

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