Nitrates and charcuterie: French MPs call for 2025 ban A French Parliamentary report recommends the use of nitrates in processed meats should be gradually phased out by 2025 over concerns that consumption of this controversial additive – used to extend the shelf life and prevent the oxidisation of processed meats – can be linked to a higher cancer risk.
According to the report’s findings, which were presented today (13 January), around 76% of charcuterie available in French supermarkets has been treated with nitrate salts. This should be reduced, the report recommends.
The first step should be to ‘prohibit the use of nitrate additives in the deli from 1 January 2023’ for meat products that are not heat treated. Then, from 1 January 2025, the authors want to extend this ‘for all meat products’.
The trend of home cooking and kitchen creativity, which scores of households exhibited last year will stick around in 2021 solidifying the dining table as the centerpiece of family eating, says New York-based online grocery retailer FreshDirect which recently released its top food trends for the new year.
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TurtleTree Labs aims to produce growth factors for cell cultured meat, milk, at fraction of price of pharma grade equivalents By Elaine Watson For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says startup TurtleTree Labs, which has created a new division dedicated to creating high-volume, cost-efficient growth factors.
Like cell-cultured meat companies,
TurtleTree Labs - which makes the key components of human breastmilk by culturing mammary cells in a bioreactor - also relies on cell culture media and growth factors to make its milk.
The continued export of UK meat, fish and dairy to Europe has been confirmed, but industry says ‘crucial information’ has yet to be provided, which is hindering Brexit preparation.
The UK has secured ‘national listed status’ in time for Christmas. Earlier today, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced that the UK’s Third Country status means live animals and products of animal origin – such as meat, fish and dairy – can continue to be exported to Europe.
The status was confirmed by the EU after it met the health and biosecurity assurances required for a third country. The decision will also allow the continued movement of equines between the UK and the EU.