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e. coli in ground beef, melamine in infant formula, and salmonella in peanut butter - what is next? isn’t it about time the slices of the us food safety pie were taken back from the multiple federal agencies involved and surveillance placed under one roof? confidence in a system where 15 different agencies administer as many as 30 laws is ebbing with us politicians and food companies, following the recent salmonella scare linked to eight deaths, demanding an overhaul of how the sector is regulated.

the flavour company fromatech has merged with food ingredients & specialities to offer customers function and taste solutions rolled into one, along with a new partnership to help it expand outside of europe. fromatech ingredients produces flavours, flavour systems, cheese based powders and seasonings. it has now joined with another dutch firm, food ingredients & specialities (fi & s bv), which produces functional blends, to form the innogredients group bv.

hydrocolloids containing beta-glucan could be used to replace fat in cookies and peanut spreads, according to a new study from the us and korea. while the replacement of fat in food products is an area of great interest for many in the food industry, the use such ingredients has been limited mostly to baked or dairy products, according to the researchers from korea’s sejong university, and the united states department of agriculture’s agricultural research service.

the fda has started using the social networking site twitter to communicate its recall updates, market withdrawals and safety alerts. as the number of product recalls connected to the peanut corporation of america’s plant in georgia rapidly expands, the fda has moved to twitter as a way to quickly communicate news of urgent recalls. twitter allows 140-character updates, or ‘tweets’, linked to a username.

the market research organization the hartman group has released a report on emerging trends for the year ahead, with perception of high quality topping its predictions, despite economic uncertainty. the report, entitled contemporary food trends: emergent themes in products, retailers and restaurants, said that as consumers are forced to make difficult economic decisions, food is less likely to be impacted than other sectors, such as travel or entertainment.