Aug 2024
On May 8, 2024, according to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the Council of Members of the European Union will adopt, during its 119th session, to be held from June 18 to 25, 2024, a Decision amending the trade standards applicable to olive oil and olive pomace oil, as well as two Decisions updating the methodology for the organoleptic assessment of virgin olive oils and correcting the methodology for the determination of the content of fatty acid waxes and ethyl esters by means of gas chromatography on capillary columns. The main elements are as follows:
Aug 2024
On May 14, 2024, the Bhutan Bureau of Standards (BBS) and the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment (MoIC&E) issued a consultation paper for the proposed development of food standards for rapidly frozen gutted or ungutted rainbow trout, turmeric powder, and powdered ginger, with a comment period ending on June 15, 2024 Key Elements:
Aug 2024
The Food Additives and Novel Foods (Authorisations and Miscellaneous Amendments) and Food Flavourings (Deauthorisation) (England) Regulations 2024 were made on 22 May 2024 and came into force on 28 June, signed by Andrea Leadsom, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, 23 May 2024, and deal with, amongst other things Regulations on the authorisation, use and labelling requirements for food additives, novel foods and food flavourings, the main elements of which include:
Aug 2024
Not long ago, the Meat Science and Nutrition Engineering Innovation Team of the Institute of Agricultural Product Processing, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) has analyzed the mechanism by which flavouring substances of spice origin (eugenol, eucalyptol and anisaldehyde) regulate the action of myofibrillar proteins and aldehydes.
Aug 2024
Recently, the Innovative Team of Bioactive Substances and Functional Foods of the Institute of Agricultural Products, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, published a research paper entitled ‘Punicalagin attenuates hyperuricemia via restoring hyperuricemiainduced renal and intestinal dysfunctions’ in Journal of Advanced Research, a top journal of Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the academy as the first unit. Punicalagin attenuates hyperuricemia via restoring hyperuricemiaainduced renal and intestinal dysfunctions’. The study systematically reported the effect and mechanism of punicalagin in pomegranate to improve hyperuricemia.
Aug 2024
On 30 May 2024, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan issued a number of circulars, including 550003936, proposing to revise a number of food standards. Some of the specifics include:
Aug 2024
On 23 May 2024, Estonia issued Presidential Decree No. 410 amending the Food Act with effect from 1 July 2024. The main amendments include:
Aug 2024
On 23 May 2024, the International Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) issued Consultation Paper No. CL2024/39-FO to revise the standard for fats and oils, with a feedback period ending on 30 June 2025 for comments. The main revisions are:
Aug 2024
At present, China's food classification system has different food classification systems according to the needs of different professional fields. In the process of use, special attention should be paid to the fact that the same food may have different categories in different food classification systems. This article introduces China's various food classification systems, and on this basis, explains how to accurately locate food classification through examples.
Aug 2024
On 12 April 2024, Denmark proposed to amend the regulation on the addition of certain substances other than vitamins and minerals to food, with a feedback period until 19 April 2024, as shown in the table below.
Aug 2024
Not long ago, Professor Li Yuan's team from the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, published a paper entitled "Highly active probiotics delivered by brown polyphenol metal frame microgel of Cynanchum sativum polysaccharides synergistically modulate the enterohepatic axis to alleviate liver injury" in the internationally renowned journal "Advanced Functional Materials".
Aug 2024
At the FIC2024 exhibition held in March this year, Zhongke Xinyang firstly introduced NMN (β-nicotinamide mononucleotide), which is fully synthesised by microbial cell factories, and attracted the attention of many companies and consumers. In fact, as a potential food additive, NMN has been used as a food raw material or natural health product ingredient in Japan, Canada and other countries to improve human immunity, gene repair ability and body metabolism. Under the background of global economic growth and deepening population ageing, anti-ageing has long been not only the immediate needs of the middle-aged and the elderly, but also extended to the post-90s and post-00s groups. NMN is expected to become a star among "anti-aging" ingredients.