A public-private consortium has been created to investigate the potential food safety and quality issues posed by microbial contaminants in plant-based food products.
Partners in the project will look at microbes that are common in
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A plant-based cheese brand has been linked to five serious Listeria infections in France.
The five cases of listeriosis include four pregnant women who gave birth prematurely. They were infected with the same type of
Continue Reading Five sick in French Listeria outbreak linked to cheese alternative
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You’ve probably heard a lot about the new plant-based foods — meatless beef and poultry and dairy-free milk, for example, but most people don’t know much, if anything, about them. In fact,
Continue Reading Plant-based meat, dairy and eggs: A game changer or a flash in the pan?
The “Truth in Labeling of Food Products Act” passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2019 violates the commercial free speech rights of Turtle Island Foods, which produces and packages plant-based meat products marketed and sold
Continue Reading Federal judge strikes down Louisiana labeling law for plant-based meat
PHOENIX — If there was one thing to take away from Tuesday’s session on the food safety concerns of plant-based ‘meat,” it’s that it’s not meat and can’t be approached in exactly the same way.
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By Katharine Hopkins
The same care needs to be taken when preparing plant-based food as any other food. Plants are classed as a lower risk than meat and other animal products, but that doesn’t
Continue Reading Can plant-based food give you food poisoning? The short answer is yes
There has been a shift in consumer confidence around food safety and hygiene because of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom, according to a survey.
Findings show increased consciousness of food safety and hygiene when eating
Continue Reading Survey shows public more aware of food safety since pandemic began
Have you ever eaten a dinosaur before?
Turns out that a lot of kids, and adults, have thanks to Perdue Farm’s “Chicken Plus” nuggets that are shaped like dinosaurs. But more notable than their
Continue Reading ‘Flexitarians’ drive meat-vegetable hybrids toward more marketshare
Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat’s expansion to the People’s Republic of China announced in early September, is already taking shape with a new product roll-out for the Chinese market.
From Shanghai, Beyond Meat officials said their
Continue Reading Beyond Meat introduces ‘Beyond Pork’ for Chinese market
A type of lectin in red kidney beans was behind an outbreak in Denmark earlier this year.
Poisoning left 45 people sick, including 24 on one day, in late April. It was limited to a
Continue Reading Red kidney beans linked to poisoning cases in Denmark
