World Cup and Food

[charliep]

Found an article that ties one of my favorite on line publications (Food Navigator) and a passion for the next month.

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[parsley]

Good one charliep. For a guy as trim and fit as you are, you obviously make good food choices.

Choice. That's what it is all about.

[checking]

That's all fine and dandy, charliep, but do those steady noise horns not make you want to instantly hit the mute button. For those not die hard soccer fans, it should worry the major sponsors. Perhaps after a certain number of beer pints, the brain overrides it.

[charliep]

Using beer to kill the crowd noise at 6 am doesn't get the day off to a good start either of diet or work. Now if this were fishing?

[parsley]

Barb-b-q a t-bone for lunch?


"EFSA calls for fresh data on cloned animals
By Guy Montague-Jones, 11-Jun-2010

Related topics: Public Concerns

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is appealing for new data on the health and welfare of cloned farm animals as the debate on their regulatory status continues.

EFSA issued the call for new data in preparation for an update it plans to give the European Commission on scientific developments related to cloning animals for food production purposes. This work follows on from the last statement that EFSA provided in July 2009.

Health and welfare

EFSA is therefore looking for information which has become available since June 2009. In particular, the food safety body is interested in material on food producing animal clones regarding their health and welfare during production life, taking into consideration natural life span.

Additional information of interest to EFSA includes any of the following related topics:

Health and welfare of the surrogate mother and the animal clone;
What extent epigenetic dysregulation occurring in clones is transmitted to progeny (offspring);
Characterisation of the genetic make-up of animal clones, considering both intranuclear and extranuclear (mitochondrial) genetic material;
Comparative physiology of clones and conventional animals, including reproductive capacity;
Safety of consumption of animal clones and their products (meat, milk products, eggs), including compositional and nutritional characteristics;
Information on the causes of pathologies and mortality observed in clones during the gestational and juvenile periods and those observed at a lower frequency in adulthood;
Information related to the areas above on the offspring of animal clones.
Regulatory debate

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) recently voted to entirely exclude food derived from cloned animals and their offspring from draft novel foods legislation. This legislation covers food that has not been consumed to any significant degree in the EU before May 1997.

Instead, the MEPs called for a moratorium on animal cloning and urged the European Commission to develop a separate proposal on the regulatory framework for cloned farm animals.

Health and welfare concerns, especially related to illness and premature death among the offspring of clones, and ethical unease from the general public have so far kept food from cloned farm animals away from EU supermarket shelves."

Now, if gene-experimenting companies (ie Bayer/Syngenta/ BASF) are clever enough by half, they will GIFT cloned bulls to major cattle producers, and then provide carcass testing for their patented genetic material in meat packing plants, pocket their patented percentage and smile all the way to the bank. The %, necessarily, will grow exponentially. Segments of the population could even be provided with modified meat to implement 'neutering-traits'

How quaint. Pars

[parsley]

"BASF doubles nutrition technical staff in New York shift
By Shane Starling, 15-Jun-2010

Related topics: Food finance and prices, Financial & Industry, Health and nutritional ingredients

Enhanced waters, carbonated soft drinks, still beverages, dairy products, instant beverages, nutrition bars and baked goods are being targeted by BASF as part of an intensified nutrition push in the US.

The German ingredients giant has established a Nutrition Ingredients Innovation Laboratory at its technical center in Tarrytown, New York that will house twice the number of technical staff as at its now defunct Ledgewood, New Jersey facility.

The company said “product improvements for customers” was the focus of the new center, which was part of a broader BASF strategy to provide its customers with a greater levels of technical support.

“By increasing lab size and technical staff, this move will strengthen the performance of BASF vitamins, nature-identical carotenoids and our other products in food and beverage applications,” said Martin Jager, senior vice president of nutrition ingredients at BASF.

“In addition, close proximity to major food companies will allow us to better serve our customers.”

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It has two similar technical centers located in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Ballerup, Denmark and another in Shanghai, China.

Developing such centers also provided BASF with a means to accommodate regional differences in taste and technology.

The new technical center in New Jersey will also house laboratories for the Personal Care and Pharma Ingredients divisions and Care Chemicals Division business units.

Last year BASF closed a plant in North Carolina that produced vitamin B and C for dietary supplements. The closure brought to an end the company’s presence in the manufacture of formulated vitamin B products, as well as other changes to its national operations, in a bid to ensure greater cost efficiency"