Search Perfumer & Flavorist: Page 11

589 Results

Section: Flavor > Regulatory & Research

Robertet Receives Safety Certification

SQF 2000 is administered by the Food Marketing Institute

Canada Food Safety Plan

According to a spokeswoman for Health Minister Tony Clement, the Canadian Government soon plans to introduce the "Canadian Consumer Product Safety Act."

California Bio-Monitoring Survey

In 2007 California Governor Schwarznegger signed into law a bio-monitoring program intended to track and evaluate toxic environmental chemicals in California residents. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has now implemented the program and is requesting residents to complete a survey concerning bio-monitoring.

Supervision for Chinese Imports

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) of the People’s Republic of China to enhance the safety of food and feed imported into the United States from China.

FDA's New Software Tool

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new tool to help growers, packers, processors, manufacturers, warehousers, transporters and retailers in the food industry determine the vulnerability of individual food facilities to biological, chemical or radiological attack.

The Science of Flavor

A recent SFC meeting at The Monell Chemical Senses Center reveals that flavor is more than just one of life’s pleasures.

pf_edNote_lead_42518

A Sense of Transformation

The only constant in the F&F industry is change. With shifting consumer demands and new technology emerging, the industry must be quick and agile to meet the demands of the 21st century.

mainimagesilk

Patent Picks—Silk Encapsulation

Patent Picks are compiled by the editors from publicly available sources. The present inventions feature developments using silk to encapsulate flavor and/or fragrance materials.

NEXT: Sensory Frontiers

Healthier flavors, quantitatively emotionally engaging fragrances and other sensory frontiers sit at the intersection of product innovation and basic research; that’s where the Monell Center and its industry sponsors come in.

Test_tubes_137535781

Biological Scent Design

Cultured ingredients shift the F&F palette for unique collaboration between art and science.

Schiff Bases — A Primer

The flavor and fragrance industry uses many classes of chemicals, including a number that otherwise are encountered only rarely outside of organic chemistry textbooks. A good example is Schiff bases, named for their discoverer, German chemist Hugo Schiff (1834-1915). A Schiff base, along with by-product water, is formed by reaction of an aldehyde with a primary amine.

chocophonica_PF1512_300

Does Sound Impact Taste?

Recently launched in London, Choco-Phonica helps explore the relationship consumers have with chocolate through sound and taste.

ECHA Stakeholders Meeting, 10/10/08

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is holding a stakeholders meeting on October 10, 2008 in Helsinki, Finland.

IFST Trans Fat Statement

The Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST, London) has released an updated statement on trans fatty acids, which it says “raise LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol levels in the blood, thereby increasing the risk of coronary heart disease”

Symrise Researches Bitter-Maskers

Symrise has reported the potential use of benzyl amides as bitter-masking compounds for foods.

ECHA Q&A on Notified Substances

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a Q&A document which is intended for those companies who own notifications under Directive 67/548/EEC pertaining to Domestic Manufacturers and/or Importers.

850_campbelllabel_p

Campbell Starts to Label 'GMO'

Campbell Soup has become the first company to prepare a label to comply with pending genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling.

Chemical Plants Face Stricter Regulations

On Thursday, March 6, 2008, the House Committee on Homeland Security approved draft legislation that would extend and modify federal authority to regulate the security of U.S. chemical plants—a measure that, among other things, would require chemical plants to consider the use of "inherently safer technology (IST)."

Page 11 of 33