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food safety

Bins of rice

Eating Brown Rice Increases Exposure to Arsenic Compared to White Rice

Categories Health
In the image you can see one of the researchers pouring the liquid amino acid cysteine into a jar of canned tuna. The study showed that this novel ‘active packaging’ technique removed up to 35 percent of the accumulated mercury in canned tuna, significantly reducing human exposure to mercury via food.

Simple Packaging Trick Could Make Tuna Safer to Eat, Scientists Find

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans
At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik, researchers are combining sensors with antenna technology to be able to recognize different smells.

New Artificial ‘Nose’ Sniffs Out Spoiled Food and Damaged Fruit

Categories Technology
Samples included many collected from cheese making facilities Credit Teagasc

Massive Study Reveals Hidden World of Microbes in Our Food

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
A sensitive analytical method finds that removing agricultural pesticides from foods such as apples may require more than a simple wash.

Researchers show pesticide contamination is more than apple skin deep

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
Pudding that sometimes contains xantham gum.

Study finds many cocoa products contaminated by heavy metals

Categories Health
Chocolate

Chocolate’s tasty flavors might pose a risk in other desserts

Categories Health
meat collage

Uncooked Meat Sold for Human and Animal Consumption Contains Bacteria Resistant to Critically Important Antibiotics

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
oats in barrels

Study finds little-known toxic crop chemical in four out of five people tested

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health
Spam

FDA Issues Public Health Alert for Canned Meat Product SPAM

Categories Health
Wild boar

Nuclear weapons tests are unappreciated source of radioactivity in wild boars

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Kitchen sponges. Pixabay

Bacteria in kitchen may not be as harmful as you think

Categories Health
Ground beef

Multidrug-resistant bacteria found in 40% of supermarket meat samples

Categories Health
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