Sentences with phrase «of food biotechnology»

«The more you refine foods, the more you take away their protective compounds, such as the antioxidants that help metabolize carbohydrates,» says Kalidas Shetty, PhD, professor of food biotechnology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.

For example, various individuals and organizations have taken to the internet to endorse homemade infant formula recipes as a way to avoid products containing ingredients produced with biotechnology; however, there are serious food safety risks of doing so that far outweigh any perceived risk of food biotechnology.

Master graduates of Food Biotechnology, Food Science and Engineering as well as Bioeconomy offer itself the best entry opportunities in the labor market.

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«After more than a decade of our eating biotech foods, there has not been a single scientifically confirmed case of human illness that can be attributed to food biotechnology,» he writes.

The 2006 Decima survey found: «The main aspect of biotechnology that engenders concern is GM food.

The EU's pollsters have discovered a «striking» decline in acceptance of GM foods over recent years even though Europeans are expressing support for other uses of biotechnology.

Cambridge, MA — February 6, 2017 — Aura Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapies to target and selectively destroy cancer cells using viral nanoparticle conjugates, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the investigational new drug application (IND) for the company's lead program, light - activated AU - 011 in ocular melanoma (OM).

Companies that operate in the Biotechnology industry primarily make use of living organisms or molecular and cellular techniques to provide chemicals, food and services that meet human needs.

Hypocholesterimic effects of cold and hot extracted virgin coconut oil (VCO) in comparison to commercial coconut oil: Evidence from a male wistar albino rat model Food Science and Biotechnology December 2013, Volume 22, Issue 6, pp 1501 - 1508

Benbrook and Mellon argued against genetically modified food because they say the technology hasn't done what it promised over the past two decades, it has not been determined if there are long - term health risks, weeds are becoming resistant to Bt and requiring the use of more herbicides and biotechnology can't prove it will solve the world's hunger crisis.

Dr. Ana Lucia Vàsquez - Caicedo, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, will be discussing «Future Applications of High - Pressure Technologies in the Food and Beverage Industry».

«Rice is an incredibly special crop providing more than half of the planet with food every day,» said Dr. Eero Nissilä, head of IRRI's Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division and convenor of RG7.

The Senate Agriculture Committee hearing today on agricultural biotechnology highlighted the overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the safety of foods developed from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the tremendous urgency for Congress to pass a national, uniform labeling standard this year.

A new generation of meat alternatives is being formulated with the help of biotechnology startup companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods to more closely replicate the flavor, texture and appearance of real meat, according to market research publisher Packaged Facts in the report Food Formulation and Ingredient Trends: Plant Proteins.

World - renowned speakers, the most recent techniques, developments, and the newest updates in Food Biotechnology, Food Processing, Food Safety and Quality Control, Food Waste Management are hallmarks of this conference.

The Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology belongs to the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart.

Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences, 2013, 2, 6, pp. 2398 - 2402.

His 20 years of senior management experience in the Natural Product, Marine Biotech, Food Retailing, Wholesaling and Advertising industries have helped make us Canada's fastest - growing marine biotechnology and natural product ingredients company.

The discovery of novel health effects of bioactive compounds will provide the scientific basis for future efforts to use biotechnology to modify / fortify foods and food components as a means to improve public health.

Altadena, CA - based Dr. Jekyll's teamed with biotechnology firm Virun for a breakthrough patented process for brewing super foods and essential nutrients into one - of - a-kind beers with benefits.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Some of these concerns stem from claims that biotechnology may cause food allergies.

When it comes to concerns about the safety of foods produced with biotechnology for women and children, Laurie Green, MD, practicing obstetrician and gynecologist, and partner at the Pacific Women for OB / GYN Care in San Francisco, says, «There are so many things people worry about.

According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, «Baby - Led Weaning is an alternative method for introducing complementary foods to infants in which the infant feeds themselves hand - held foods instead of being spoon - fed by an adult.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are involved in the regulation of foods produced through biotechnology to ensure their safety, including human health and the health of the environment.

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The demand for scientists with expertise in the agriculture / food sector is likely to increase in the next decade, says Celia Caulcott, director of innovation and skills at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Its strategy consists of four key components: 1) Priority identification — we respond to the crop biotechnology needs and priorities identified by developing countries; 2) Technology appraisal — we work to identify, evaluate, and facilitate the acquisition of new crop biotechnology applications; 3) Project implementation — we implement a portfolio of crop biotechnology projects that have a potential for near - term impact in food, feed, fiber crops, and forestry; and 4) Services for the enabling environment — we provide advice and services to assist in the development of an enabling environment to support the safe application of crop biotechnology.

In addition, it promotes the public understanding of scientific advances in crop biotechnology and their implications for the consistent availability of sufficient quantities of food, feed, and fiber.

The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.

Amidst acrimonious debate over the safety of genetically modified (GM) food crops, India's top biotechnology regulator last week declared a transgenic mustard plant «safe for consumption.»

About 64 percent of Americans are uncomfortable with animal cloning, and 43 percent believe the products are unsafe for consumption, according to a 2006 survey by the nonpartisan Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other agencies involved in regulating biotechnology products should increase their scientific capabilities, tools, and expertise in key areas of expected growth, said the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report.

While he optimistically champions biotechnology's potential to make the future more sustainable, most of the possibilities that he explores — such as lab - grown meat, a food pill, and saltwater fish raised indoors — are still a long way from reaching our plates.

Gale admits that the work in Britain has been reasonably well supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Biotechnology Directorate of the Science and Engineering Research Council, the Agricultural and Food Research Council, and by industry.

One afternoon, when offered the opportunity to attend «Strengthening Global Supply Chains,» «The New Growth Equation,» «New Approaches to Food Security,» or «Frontiers of Biotechnology,» I choose instead «Asia's Art Scene: What's Happening?»

Silsoe Research Institute (application of engineering and physical sciences to biotechnology, in particular for the agricultural, environmental, horticultural, and food industries)

• BIOTECHNOLOGY The livestock business accounts for about 18 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions — an even larger contribution than the global transportation sector, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Yesterday, French Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault announced that the High Council for Biotechnology (HCB) and the Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety have been asked to look into the study, headed by Gilles - Eric Séralini of the University of Caen and published by Food and Chemical Toxicology this week.

In the last few years, for example, more than half of Canadian biotechnology exports were agri - food - related products (mostly genetically modified canola, soybeans, and corn), and most originated in Saskatchewan, with health - care - related products (vaccines, diagnostics, and contract research services) making up the remainder of exports.

Barbara Glenn of the Biotechnology Industry Organization calls cloning «a breeding technique that will improve the quality and consistency of food» because only animals with desired traits are chosen for cloning.

Today, a member of each team was awarded a third of the $ 250,000 World Food Prize for their contributions to starting the era of agricultural biotechnology.

More than half covered genes used outside of human medicine, in applications including agriculture, food and beverage manufacturing, industrial enzymes and bioenergy (Nature Biotechnology, doi.org/mvh).

As we are seeing over genetically modified food, a basic failure to consider the wider ethical context of such commercial ambitions is endangering the very future of European biotechnology.

The paper appears in a special collection entitled «Detecting food authenticity and integrity», guest edited by Professor Roy Goodacre and Dr David Ellis at The University of Manchester's Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.

But emerging biotechnologies may blur those lines of oversight, because some of the new foods don't fit neatly into existing regulatory definitions.

Such biotechnology is «critical for achieving the ecological intensification required to meet human food demand on a global scale,» argues agronomist Ken Cassman of the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.

At present, the regulation of gene drive research does not fit within the purview of any of the U.S. agencies involved in the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, which includes the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Vivian Moses, professor of biotechnology at the University of London and the chairwoman of Cropgen, an advisory group on GM foods, said: «These beekeepers believe that there is a sensitivity among consumers of the presence of GM material, that the honey containing GM loses quality.

«Biotechnology is one of the tools necessary in helping farmers grow more food on less land,» explained ISAAA Global Coordinator Randy Hautea.