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the european food safety authority has initiated a consultation on its draft guidelines for evaluating the safety of food enzymes, giving the first insight into the requirements that will be placed on industry. enzymes perform a technological function in food, as they catalyze or accelerate biochemical reactions. their uses include being added to foods to improve the texture, appearance or nutritional value, or to helping achieve optimum results in certain food production processes, such as cheese making or beer brewing.

gum kondagogu, a ‘novel natural biopolymer’ from the tree cochlospermum gossypium, is a ‘good emulsifying agent even at low concentration’, say indian researchers. according to findings published today in the journal of the science of food and agriculture , gum kondagogu can produce a creamy white oil-in-water emulsion with good emulsifying properties at concentrations as low as 0.

foodnavigator-usa.com asked readers for their views on a recent joint study from yale university and the university of michigan that compared the food industry’s marketing strategies to those of the tobacco industry. below is a selection of attributed responses. “the food industry far from perfect but to tar it with the same brush as tobacco is simply grossly unfair.

danisco says it will move ahead with research into more cost effective dehydration of cultures and probiotic products as part of a new collaboration to test if commercial development of such systems may be feasible. the supplier said it has been working with research partner enwave, which manufactures new drying technologies, on developing a high speed, continuous dehydration method for processing cultured products used for applications such as dairy formulation.

the uk’s food ethics council has launched a new toolkit to help businesses prepare for future challenges to the food system, as it expects some major unpredictable changes are just around the corner. recent times have seen considerable shifts in the macroenvironment in which the food system sits, such as the threat of climate change, the economic crisis, and geopolitical power shifts from west to east.

sigma-tau pharmaceuticals, a us-based, wholly owned subsidiary of the sigma-tau group, and danisco bioactives, a provider of food ingredients, enzymes and bio-based solutions, have signed a partnering agreement for the development of a new biologic drug candidate, which may help to prevent a deadly disease called necrotizing enterocolitis.under the terms of the agreement, sigma-tau and danisco will collaborate to develop stp-206, a biologic agent comprised of live bacteria, which may be effective in preventing the occurrence of necrotizing enterocolitis (nec).

concerns about food-borne pathogens such as e. coli and salmonella will contribute to sales of more than $1.2bn/year for disinfectant and antimicrobial chemicals in the us by 2013, according to the latest report from the international business market research organization freedonia. the study, based on an analysis of the us disinfectant and antimicrobial chemical industry from 1998 to 2008, examined the market demand for phenolics, iodophors, nitrogen compounds, organo-metallics, organo-suphurs, chloroisocyanurates and aldehydes.

the us government has launched a research initiative to investigate the link between child malnutrition and intestinal infections, with the goal of developing intervention strategies that could promote the health of children around the world. the five-year study will be coordinated by the foundation for the national institutes of health (fnih), together with the fogarty international center (fic), and is funded by a $30m grant from the bill and melinda gates foundation.

fda authorities finally served an inspection warrant on a new jersey snack manufacturer on wednesday 18 days after it refused to recall products containing peanuts supplied by the peanut corporation of america. the pca produced peanut products that were found to be contaminated with salmonella in january, leading to one of the biggest product recalls in us history.

us-based restaurant company ruby tuesday has reported a net income of $4.8m or diluted earnings per share of $0.09 for the third fiscal quarter ended march 3, 2009, compared to a net income of $11.7m or diluted earnings per share of $0.23 in the third quarter of fiscal 2008.the company's revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 was $317.5m, compared to $351.2m in the same period of fiscal 2008.