What is the FDA?

The US FDA is the Food and Drug Administration . FDA is responsible for:   Protecting the public health by assuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled; human...

Food Safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avo...

Nutraceuticals

Nutraceuticals are food products with added nutritional and health benefits. They include fortified foods and can have added nutrients or compounds that aid weight-loss. It is a booming market area....

Public Health

Public health is the scientific, political and sociological approach by a society to maximise the health of the population through disease preventaion and mainenance of healthy life-styles. The main...

Abbott

The 11th largest pharmaceutical company in the world, Abbott Laboratories generated sales of $16 billion in 2009 and has 90,000 employees. Within the medical device arm of the company, products of...

McDonald's Expands Wholesome Breakfast Choices With New Egg White Delight McMuffin In New York Tri-State

ISELIN, N.J., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Gabrielle Douglas will host an exclusive launch event in Manhattan to introduce McDonald's wholesome new Egg White De...

Mind-Your-Health.com Introduces Online Store to Boost Consumer Health and Wellness

OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Canada-based internet retailer of health and wellness products, JT Global Solutions Inc., today introduced its new online store at www.Mind-Your-H...

About Big Organic.

Welcome to the world of higher profit margins and Potemkin branding:The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of th...

Lil’ Drug Store Products Wins ‘Convenience Store News’ “2012 Best New Products Award” for Convenience-Sized “EZ OTC” Over-the-Counter Drug Products

Lil’ Drug Store Products, Inc. (LDSP), a global consumer products company and top supplier to the convenience store retailing channel, is proud to announce that Convenien...

Video games fail to stoke kids' appetite for fruit

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy food advertising in the form of online games doesn't make kids crave more wholesome snacks, according to a new study from the Netherlands.

Games fail to stoke kids' appetite for fruit

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy food advertising in the form of online games didn't make kids crave more wholesome snacks in a recent Dutch study.

"Read Your Labels" Campaign Gets Consumers Looking at What's in Everyday Grocery Store Products

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizens for Health, one of the nation's most respected consumer action groups, has launched "Read Your Labels," a campaign to create awareness about man...

McDonald's Expands Wholesome Breakfast Choices With New Egg White Delight McMuffin

PHILADELPHIA, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Customers in the Greater Philadelphia Region can now enjoy the wholesome new Egg White Delight McMuffin at McDonald's. Egg White Delight McMuffin is pre...

Impact of mothers' negative affectivity, parental locus of control and child-feeding practices on dietary patterns of 3-year-old children: The MoBa Cohort Study.

Abstract The aims of the current study were to (1) identify dietary patterns in 3-year-old children; (2) investigate the extent to which negative affectivity, external parental locus of control and co...

Access to food source and food source use are associated with healthy and unhealthy food-purchasing behaviours among low-income African-American adults in Baltimore City.

OBJECTIVE: Although previous research has shown limited availability of healthy food in low-income urban neighbourhoods, the association between food source use and food-purchasing patterns has not ye...

Food contamination in fast food restaurants in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria: Implications for food hygiene and safety.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of food contamination in the fast food restaurants operating in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. METHODS: Three hundred and fifty food handlers were selected by m...

If you stock it, will they buy it? Healthy food availability and customer purchasing behaviour within corner stores in Hartford, CT, USA.

OBJECTIVE: Literature on food environments has expanded rapidly, yet most research focuses on stores and community characteristics without integrating customer-level data. The present study combines c...

Efficacy of a store-based environmental change intervention compared with a delayed treatment control condition on store customers' intake of fruits and vegetables.

OBJECTIVE: The present store-based intervention was designed to promote sales of fruits and vegetables (F&V) to increase intake among store customers - specifically customers of tiendas, small-to-medi...