Washing raw chicken increases risk of food poisoning
The UK’s Food Standards Agency is urging people to stop washing raw chicken as the practice can spread campylobacter bacteria, the most common source of food poisoning in the UK.
June 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: common-source, food-poisoning, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, practice, raw-chicken, standards, standards-agency, the-practice, urging-people
New school meal standards significantly increase fruit, vegetable consumption
New federal standards launched in 2012 that require schools to offer healthier meals have led to increased fruit and vegetable consumption, according to a new study.
March 4, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, findings, increased-food, increased-fruit, offer-healthier, require-schools, said-the-lead, standards, will-discourage
New NIST Reference Materials For Green Tea
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a suite of green tea reference materials to help manufacturers evaluate the composition of their products and assure researchers of the accuracy of analytical methods for studying the human health effects of this popular beverage and dietary supplement…
May 26, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: composition, diet, health-effects, national, nist, popular, products, standards, technology, the-accuracy
New NIST Dietary Supplement Reference Materials Could Be ‘Berry’ Useful
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have developed new certified reference materials for measuring amounts of organic acids in dietary supplements formulated with Vaccinium berries – cranberries, blueberries and bilberries…
November 12, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, dietary-supplements, institute, national-institute, new-certified, nist, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, organic-acids, reference-materials, standards, technology
