The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, also known as the HELP Committee, will conduct a confirmation hearing next Wednesday for Dr. Scott Gottlieb to serve as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

The way was cleared for the hearing when Gottlieb submit...

Robin Hood All Purpose Flour is the subject of a food recall warning issued by Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

Canadians are advised to not eat or use the recalled flour product. Additional advice on safe food practices for preparing raw doug...

Many patients with a history of a single tree nut allergy are told to avoid all other tree nuts. But is that necessary? If you have a tree nut allergy and were advised to avoid other tree nuts based only on a positive blood or skin prick test, you may not be allergic to the other nuts. New resear...

Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute researchers have led an international study that found -- for the first time -- that a diet yielding high amounts of the short-chain fatty acids acetate and butyrate provided a beneficial effect on the immune system and protected against type 1 ...

Netherton in Shropshire is a village so remote that the steam train calls more frequently than the bus. Not the most promising place to start a business, you might think. But to the owners of Netherton Foundry, Neil and Sue Currie, it’s entirely appropriate.

Netherton is 20 miles fr...

The company Yarych decided to offer extraordinary cracker flavours for Ukrainians, having launched a new line: The Crackers. So the company is trying to prove that crackers are a snack.

The flavour of basil and garlic in biscuits is a bold enough decision, but when one takes into account ...

In the latest update of the Kalsec® HeatSync® Heat Index, global new product introductions with hot and spicy ingredients increased for a ninth straight year, showing a consistent, growing consumer interest in hot and spicy foods. The index increased 6 percent from the previous year, reac...

Sales of Naturex's organic ingredients in the US have more than doubled in the past two years, thanks to the boom in America's organic food and beverage market - the value of which grew 11.6% to $36.9 billion in sales in 2015.

The natural ingredients company has been expanding its organic...

Most American Millennial snackers eat a snack in place of a standard meal at least once a week, a new survey reveals.

Researchers in the US questioned snackers between the ages of 18 and 35 about their snacking habits and preferences. When asked how often they eat a snack instead of havin...