Food prices on the up? (Stuff) An improving global economy could help food, restaurant and beverage companies start to sell more sodas, sandwiches and suds.

Food Safety Attorney Marler Calls for Criminal Prosecution of Manufacturers Who Knowingly Sell Contaminated Food (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SEATTLE----Food Safety attorney William Marler is calling for enforcement of a federal law that allows criminal sanctions to be imposed against food manufacturers that can prevent harmful food products from being distributed, but do not do so.

Diet delight as study finds calorie counts on food labels could be out by 25% (Daily Mail) The first thing most of us do when we pick up supermarket food is look at the calorie content. But we might be wasting our time because calorie counts on food labels may be out by as much as 25 per cent.

FDA Working to Replace Misleading Food Labels (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) NEW YORK - The aisles of American supermarkets can be bewildering places these days, lined with dozens of variations of cereals, crackers, chips and other foods, many of which boast of their supposed healthfulness - this yogurt is "low fat," while this cereal is "heart healthy," and those chips have "0 grams trans fat." What claims are the conscientious eater to trust and what foods should they ...

Tracking down recalled food items to keep consumers safe (Baltimore Sun) T he most useful tool to keep up with a dizzying array of food recalls might be in your wallet.

Chew on this – calorie counts on food are too high (Times Online) SUPERMARKETS are overstating the number of calories on food labels by as much as 20% because they are using flawed measurements, according to research.

Team to monitor imported feed and food products in Texas (High Plains Journal) Texas The Office of the State Chemist, a state regulatory agency administratively housed by Texas AgriLife Research, has received grant funding from the Food and Drug Administration to be part of a rapid response team monitoring imported feed and food products into the Lone Star State. The grant is administered by the Texas Department of State Health Services-Foods Group, which regulates human ...

Poor equipment design compromising food safety, EHEDG (Food Production Daily) The EHEDG (European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group) is a consortium of equipment manufacturers, food industries, research institutes, universities and public health authorities, founded in 1989 with the aim of promoting hygiene during the processing and packing of food products.

New Online Community Brings Food Operators, Distributors And Manufacturers Together (FoodserviceCentral.com) There's a new web-based business tool designed to streamline communications and strengthen relationships between food operators, distributors and manufacturers. It's called the Axis Portal. And its developer, John Krebs of Axis Purchasing, says it is breaking down the traditional barriers between these three key industry players

Unthinkable Way to Save Money: Eat Less (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) There are many ways to save on food during these lean economic times. But if you want to turn lean times into lean bodies, you might be better off shunning the typical advice of clipping more coupons and looking for sales and instead just buy less food.