FDA to study barriers to food label use

Posted by axavier on September 7, 2009 · 1 Comment 

extra-125x200The FDA recently announced the intention to run an internet study to exploer the barriers to Food Label use.  This, following findings that food label use declined in sharply between 1196 and 2002, particularly with young people.

The goals of the study are to:

  1. identify attitudes and beliefs among consumers toward health, diet and label usage
  2. determine relationships between those attitudes and beliefs, as well as demographics, with food label use and non-use
  3. and evaluate the relative importance of these attitudes between consumers of various age groups to determine whether barriers to label use differ between younger consumers and older consumers

source: http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480a10b64

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What are BHA and BHT?

Posted by dxavier on September 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

chemicalsby Shereen Jegtvig

Food manufacturers add things to their products to keep them from going bad before we eat them.  When you look on the package for the ingredients list, you might find BHA and BHT listed there.  Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) are preservatives that keep fats from going rancid.

Both BHA and BHT protect fats from oxidation damage caused when the fats in the food product are exposed to oxygen.  Actually, they work in a similar way as vitamin E (although that similar action doesn’t mean BHA and BHT are good for you).  BHA and BHT are often added to potato flakes, dry breakfast cereals, enriched rice, and foods containing animal fats and shortening. Read more

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Top 10 Good Reads – July Week 1

Posted by dxavier on July 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

top_10_weekly_articlesHi Everyone!

Firtsly, my appologies. It has been a little while since my last post, but worry not – I have not forgotten about you all, and things should return to normal soon enough. Its a pleasure to return to the bloggosphere with one of my favorite types of posts. I’m personally a big fan and subscriber to a lot of “foodie” blogs and like to keep myself informed on news in the industry. This post simply lists my top 10 favorites from the past week (and a half).

In this weeks edition I have listed a few articles touching on some of the more recent problems consumers, manufacturers and the FDA have been experiencing with each other. Sparked by the recent salmonella and e-coli outbreaks/recalls, consumer trust of manufacturers has seemed to plunge to a new low (apparently only 20% in the USA trust manufacturers). Add to that the increase of law suites filed against manufacturers, and things start to look a bit ugly. Hopefully it is something we can rectify moving forward?

All this and few more good reads for you to all ENJOY! Read more

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