THE OESTROGENIC hormones diethylstilbestrol (DES), hexestrol (HEX), and dienestrol (DE), are banned worldwide from livestock raised for food production. They are prohibited from use as growth promotion agents in veal and calf farming, and they form part of the UK’s…
Category: food safety
How to screen fish for Malachite Green
MALACHITE Green, also known as Aniline Green or Basic Green 4, is banned in foodstuffs in most western countries, including the USA and the UK. The compound is legitimately used as a dye in the tanning of leather, but is…
Colony counter speeds food pathogen research
MICROBIOLOGISTS at the Robert Mondavi Research Institute (RMI), an important food and wine research centre at the University of California, USA, are using a ProtoCol colony counter from Synbiosis in their research on the growth of bacterial pathogens including E Coli…
First verified food allergen test by mass spec
WHAT IS said to be the world’s first commercial mass spectrometry method to detect and measure allergens in food has been launched by AB Sciex. The new Allergen iMethod application enables food testing labs to screen for egg and milk…