High Activity, Plant Based Diamine Oxidase Enzyme Introduced by Bio-Research Products

...ney tissue. The enzyme is available as a lyophilized powder. Price will be $200 per kilounit. Diamine Oxidase is useful for test assays to detect spoilage by the presence of histamines in wine and seafoods. DAO is especially active towards diaminopentane and diaminohexane. With better availability and wi...

Spartan Stores Becomes Largest U.S. Supermarket Chain to Receive NSF Shop Fresh(TM) Certification

...conditions and customer perceptions. -- Ongoing microbial monitoring tests food and food preparation surfaces for bacteria, which can cause illness, spoilage and poor quality in perishables. -- FastCheck(TM) provides an immediate response to customer food-related illness complaints and includes testing of...

Why Fruit Gets Short Shrift in U.S. Diet: Online Poll

...t into why consumers fail to eat their recommended daily dose of fruit. According to the poll, the factors that discourage fruit consumption include spoilage (47%), need for preparation (28%), stickiness and messiness (14%), and lack of crunch (11%). Respondents said they would eat more fruit if those probl...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Partners With the Original Butter Bell(R) Crock Developer

...ch-inspired crock is a cook's delight, solving cold butter spreadability problems and safely keeping butter at room temperature without refrigeration, spoilage or odors. The Breast Cancer Awareness crock will be available at http://www.butterbell.com or toll-free at 1-888-575-1900. It will also be available...

Cutting Salt Won't Affect Foods' Safety

...or of different strains of bacteria that contribute to food spoilage. "In general, we discovered that the growth of different sorts of typical food spoilage bacteria was unaffected by the various salt levels we tested, which means that low salt foods are just as safe as conventionally processed ones," said...

Scientists Develop 'Natural' Protection for Stored Foods

...fused with herbal extracts could extend product shelf life TUESDAY, Aug. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Natural methods of preventing food contamination and spoilage could greatly expand the shelf life of products, food scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey say. The researchers used natural antimicrobia...

A New Test Kit to Detect Spoilt Food

...hese other food types are planned. Other than tell-tale clues of food spoilage such as foul smells and the appearance of mold, spoilage sometimes can be difficult to detect by the average consumer. Current scien...

Chicken Farmers In Northern Nigeria Face Huge Losses

... Barnabas Dauda, chairman of the Kaduna State Chapter of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) said that the losses were mainly recorded due to spoilage and under-pricing. He said that the bird flu has more or less caused a major destruction of poultry industry in the country, including job losses. In ...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...e (a preservative added to extend shelf-life by killing bacteria under acidic conditions) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C – artificially added to prevent spoilage and extend shelf-life or naturally occurring in fruits and vegetables) can react to produce benzene at levels above permissible limits. Ascorbic aci...

Spoilage in Biological News

E-Noses: Testing their mettle against fly noses

...on house fly. "Although e-noses already have many uses such as detecting spoilage in the food industry and monitoring air quality they are not as discrimina...pleted, the Cybernose will have wide application for detecting ripeness and spoilage in a range of foods as well as other applications such as detecting explosi...

Real-time gene monitoring developed

...the fly is dying, and this is potentially a good inroad to being able to study that," he said. Oxidation the chemical process behind rust and food spoilage takes place constantly in the body as a byproduct of metabolism. "Burning that fuel to produce energy is toxic," Tower said. The real-time meth...

New bacteria discovered in raw milk

...-tolerant bacteria will still affect the flavour quality of fluid milk and its products. Because of this, research into cold-tolerant bacteria and the spoilage enzymes they produce is vital. "Milk can be contaminated with many different bacteria from the teat of the cow, the udder, milking equipment and th...

Captain Birdseye's robotic nose

...de the fish industry with an important tool for monitoring contamination by spoilage bacteria," said Paw Dalgaard, an expert in seafood spoilage from DTU Aqua, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac - Oct. 10, 2007

... this: Belgian scientists report that fruits and vegetables do not lose any antioxidant content in the days after purchase, even as tell-tale signs of spoilage appear. In some cases, antioxidant levels actually rise. The study will appear in the Oct. 17 issue of ACS Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemis...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007

...ATE RELEASE Fast, accurate sensor to detect food spoilage Organic Letters Amid growing concern about o...e the need for better sensors that can detect food spoilage caused by E. coli , Salmonella, and other disease...tes. The approach also shows promise for detecting spoilage in other food types, it adds. ARTICLE #4 FOR I...

New bacteria test could improve quality of fruit and vegetable juice

...oped countries, has a zero tolerance for this bacterium in imported juices, Lin said. He said identification is a challenge because spoilage can be difficult to distinguish visibly until test results are confirmed or after juice products have been opened and tasted by consumers. In addition...

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

... will depend on investment to create effective support services. 3. Improve fish market chains In many parts of Africa, post-harvest losses to spoilage due to inadequate landing, processing and trading sites exceed 30% of the catch. Weak market infrastructure in rural areas means most fish is still m...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

... will depend on investment to create effective support services. 3. Improve fish market chains In many parts of Africa, post-harvest losses to spoilage due to inadequate landing, processing and trading sites exceed 30% of the catch. Weak market infrastructure in rural areas means most fish is still m...

Spoilage in Biological Technology

Researchers: Molecular forklifts overcome obstacle to 'smart dust'

...on in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the blood. Now, University of Florida engineering researchers have tapped the working parts of cells to clear a major hu...

Neogen Reports Best Quarter in Its 26-Year History

... optical reader, also increased by more than 50% on a year-to-year comparison for the quarter. The Soleris system allows for the accurate detection of spoilage organisms, such as yeast and mold, in a fraction of the time of traditional microbial detection methods. Similarly, sales of the disposable samplers u...

ETS Laboratories Offers New Process Optimization Tools to the Fuel Ethanol Industry

...e are very pleased to be able to be able to provide this additional license, which allows ETS to maintain its position as a leader in the detection of spoilage and contamination organisms." Gordon Burns, President of ETS Laboratories added: "Scorpions™ has proven itself to be an excellent ...

BIOTECON Diagnostics and MERCK KGaA start worldwide marketing alliance

...ogy is increasingly being used in the rapid detection of food pathogens and spoilage microorganisms. PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction, a technique that ...i O157 etc. The range also comprises a unique kit for the screening of beer spoilage organisms as well as GMO testing kits. BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH wit...

LightCycler foodproof Beer Screening Kit

...quality of their goods. To guarantee the consistency of product quality, the different stages of beer production are monitored for the presence of spoilage microorganisms. A spoiled beer can be identified by cloudiness due to organisms or precipitated proteins, or by off flavors. ...

Screening of Beer-Spoilage Bacteria Using the LightCycler PCR Workflow System

...ion with 101 cfu/ml can be detected. Except for Pediococcus, all tested spoilage bacteria were detectable in the 102 cfu/ml dilution and in higher concent...f Beer Screening Kit allows the identification of the most important beer spoilage bacteria via melting-curve analysis. The...