Food Business
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Written by Hualu Zhou, Ph.D. FDA Takes a Landmark Step Toward Safer, Natural Food Colors In a groundbreaking move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a significant policy change: the phase-out of petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply. As outlined in their recent news release, “HHS, FDA to Phase Out Petroleum-Based…
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If you’re manufacturing an acidified food product, the Georgia Department of Agriculture requires that you obtain acidified foods training. UGA’s Extension Food Science offers Better Process Control School (BPCS) in a fully-online, self-paced format. The course only covers the acidified track of BPCS.
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May is Food Allergy Awareness month! To wrap up the month, we have a blog post on a common cause of food recalls: undeclared allergens on food labels. When people think of food recalls, most think of recalls due to foodborne illness. Famous recalls like the Peanut Corporation of America recall, Jensen Farms cantaloupe recall,…
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With 2024 Flavor of Georgia registration closing on February 13th, we wanted to highlight a previous winner of the “Beverages” category. Flavor of Georgia is a food product contest for Georgia-made products annually held in Athens, GA. Food products are evaluated based on the technical aspects of the food as well as potential market volume,…
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“More poop, more problems” Birds can carry diseases and pathogens that have the potential to make people sick. Keeping birds away from fields and packinghouses can be tough, but our team at Extension Food Science and Technology may have a few solutions for your operation! In this video Dr. Laurel Dunn (University of Georgia), Billy…