Responding to the need for strain-specific probiotic testing, Eurofins becomes the first third party laboratory to employ DuPont’s polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) genotyping assays to identify probiotics at the strain level.
Genes that are linked to lactose intolerance may also provide a blueprint into how schizophrenia and other complex conditions manifest themselves, a study has suggested.
Listeria is developing resistance to some compounds in disinfectants frequently used to kill it in dairies and food processing plants, according to research.
The milk proteins may have anti-cancer properties, say researchers, after new in vitro tests reveal the cancer fighting potential of lactoferricin4-14.
The proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules on genetically engineered (GE) animals are seriously flawed, claims the US Centre for Food Safety (CFS).
Low-fat ice cream made with GM yeast to ensure a creamy consistency may soon be possible in Europe following the European Food Standards Authority’s (EFSA) opinion on Unilever’s novel technology.
Quality and supplies for the key ingredient in chocolate - cocoa -
may gain from a new project that sees Mars link up with the US
goverment and IBM to unlock the cocoa genome.
Four cases of listeria contamination in the US are increasingly
thought to have come from a Massachusetts dairy although officials
say they still have not found a source of the bacteria at the
processing plant.
It was announced yesterday that scientists have successfully mapped
the most extensive cow genetic sequence - bringing and end to a
three year project that is promising to revolutionize the beef and
dairy industry.
European Union medical authorities have approved their first drug
derived from the milk of genetically modified animals, offering an
insight into potential alternative avenues for parts of the dairy
industry.
A group of international scientists has sequenced the complete rice
genome, something that could be used to improve the quality and
size of crops. The discovery may also be developed to apply to
wheat and barley.
The beef industry's ability to accurately breed cattle for specific
traits such as increased meat or milk yield has been significantly
improved with the release of the first draft of the bovine genome
sequence.
New Zealand dairy company Fonterra has been given government
permission to genetically engineer fruit enzymes in an attempt to
produce "novel and desirable flavours" for dairy products.
