In this week's news, healthy diets, USDA and the FSA & FSS.

Healthy diets cost poorest more, claims report

The most deprived fifth of the population would need to spend 50 percent of their disposable income on food to meet the cost of the Government’s recommended healthy diet, and healthier foods are over twice as expensive per calorie as less healthy foods, shows new data from the 2023’s edition of The Food Foundation’s?annual Broken Plate report . “We cannot hold people personally responsible for their diet if we do not create realistic choices, a healthy environment, a positive culture and a supply chain to match,” said Lord James Bethell, Conservative Peer. The Food Foundation data makes for damning reading when it comes to the effect our food policy has on healthcare, with nearly 9,600 diabetes-related amputations carried out on average per year – that’s an increase of 19 percent in six years. Read more .

USDA approves cultivated chicken for consumers

UPSIDE Foods , a cultivated meat, poultry and seafood company, and GOOD Meat, the cultivated meat division of food technology company Eat Just, have received approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for their respective cultivated chicken products to be sold to US consumers. In June 2023, UPSIDE Foods announced that its label had been approved by USDA. Following this it obtained a?Grant of Inspection (GOI) from the USDA, with the approval now meaning that it will be able to?start commercial production and sales of its cultivated chicken. Read more.

FSA and FSS launch new application system for regulated products

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) have launched a new system that allows businesses to make applications for regulated products. Launched on 20 June 2023, the new?system ?helps businesses follow the correct procedure when it comes to securing the necessary authorisation to sell regulated food and feed products, according to the FSA. Labelling it as a “new, more efficient system”, the FSA has said that it was designed to make it “easier for applicants” to understand what information is required to submit a good-quality, complete application for their product. They go on to claim that it will be “particularly helpful” for new businesses and those that don’t traditionally recognise themselves as food or feed businesses, such as start-ups.?Read more.

The future of the Food Industry Intelligence Network, by Professor Chris Elliot

I have written about the Food Industry Intelligence Network (fiin) on a number of occasions in the past. The organisation was formed in 2015 following one of the recommendations I made in the 2014?Elliott Review ?following the?Horsemeat ?scandal. A number of Technical Directors from UK food companies came together to discuss how a system of intelligence sharing might operate. I doubt they and certainly myself could have guessed how fiin would develop over the next eight years. It has become the most remarkable of organisations run by the most remarkable of people. Read more .

Episode 41 – Do we treat dairy farmers fairly?

Josh and Grace are talking all things dairy in this episode of Food to Go, and more importantly, asking whether we’re a little too harsh on the farmers that produce our milk and cheese.

Josh interviews Tina Hinchley, a dairy farmer from Wisconsin who is trying her level best to reconnect consumers from neighbouring big cities to their food. Find out how Tina encourages school children to name cows, reveals just how long an average workday is for her and lays bare the truth about how tough it is to keep your head above water as a dairy farmer. Listen here.

Application Note Supplement – Issue 2 2023

Introducing our Application Note supplement, featured in Issue 2 of?New Food,?including updates on the very latest technology designed to keep your food safe and your workflows efficient.?

• Bruker explains how its minispec Droplet Size Analyzer utilises TD-NMR to analyse droplet sizes in emulsions for food manufacturing quality control.
• Gerstel outlines Sensory Directed Analysis (SDA) with GC-O/MS to identify flavour compounds in plant-based tuna.
• Discover how Bruker Optics’ FT-NIR spectroscopy enables rapid and non-destructive analysis of edible oils.
• How does Thermo Scientific’s Intellitrack XR (IXR) signal processing software enhance metal detector performance for products with high conductivity?
• Bruker Optics reveals how Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) can be used to provide rapid and non-destructive analysis of oilseeds and edible oils.

You can download your copy here.

LinkedIn poll results

Have your say with?New Food's?LinkedIn polls. In this week's poll, we wanted to know what food policies would you like to see employed. The results are in! What do you think? Please let us know in the comments.

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