Food and Beverage Analysis – News and Features

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CHEMICAL business BASF has applied for approval of its second genetically modified starch potato. The European Commission approved the company’s first GM potato - the Amflora potato - for commercial production of industrial starch in May this year.

A new book Comprehensively addresses how toxicology testing of proteins should be accomplished and how protein safety assessments should be carried out.

According to the agreement, the company obtains rights to manufacture primer assays for research, applied markets and infectious diseases.

News accounts of organic agriculture and organic food are more likely to be positive than negative and inaccurately claim organic food is safer

A new ‘low-risk’ peanut without the harmful proteins which cause an allergic reaction is great news for millions of sufferers worldwide, and could bring huge financial benefits to the researchers who developed it. However, seeking patent protection for such inventions may not be a straightforward matter.

With the world's food security facing a looming "perfect storm", GM food crops need to be part of the solution, argues Professor Jonathan Jones.

The European Commission will today propose an overhaul of the EU's policy for approving genetically modified (GM) crops, which will allow countries more freedom to ban cultivation on their territory while retaining an EU-wide authorisation system.

A plan is afoot to bring genetically modified crops – mostly resisted for a decade – into Europe's fields.

Without genetically modified foods, can the world feed itself? As new trials begin, we argue that GM crops are good for people and the planet