Baby foods: Quality, safety, technology, and regulation

EditorialThe full development, growth, and health of children depend on adequate nutrition in infancy and early childhood. Therefore, diet plays a central role in delivering key nutrients to meet an individual’s physiological and nutritional needs, including components that cannot be synthesized by humans and must be obtained from foods, such as vitamins and minerals [...].info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Food Additives in Products for Children Marketed in Brazil

Abstract Studies show children suffer fro m adverse effects to food additives, in both acute and chronic forms. Children are among the biggest consumers of processed products and have more susceptibility to these adverse effects. In Brazil, there are few data about the exposure to food additives. Therefore, the objective of this article is to elaborate a database of food additives present in products for children. Th is database was built fro m August 2010 to October 2010 fro m the nutritional information on products for children, which could be found on the web site of a Brazilian supermarket. The informat ion contained on product labels of all foods commercialized on the site were analysed, and those with some description or image d irected to child ren, as well as products generally consumed by children, were organized in four categories (cereals and cereal products, dairy and meat products, candy and chocolate, beverages). The number of additives present in each product, the percentages of each class of additive present in the different food categories and the presence of artificial dyes in each category were presented in tables. Among the 5882 products commercialized on the web site, excluding alcoholic beverages, 506 (8.60%) p roducts were classified as children p roducts, fro m which 468 products contained information on their ingredients (and additives) and 438 products contained at least one additive in their formulat ion. The most used additives were lecithin (45.30%) and citric acid (22.86%) and artificial dyes allura red (9.83%), tartrazine (6.84%), sunset yellow (5.77%), brilliant blue (5.77%). Future studies could be carried out to evaluate the amount used and the intake of these additives by Brazilian children

Genome Sequencing of Bacillus subtilis SC-8, Antagonistic to the Bacillus cereus Group, Isolated from Traditional Korean Fermented-Soybean Food

Bacillus subtilis SC-8 is a Gram-positive bacterium displaying narrow antagonistic activity for the Bacillus cereus group. B. subtilis SC-8 was isolated from Korean traditional fermented-soybean food. Here we report the draft genome sequence of B. subtilis SC-8, including biosynthetic genes for antibiotics that may have beneficial effects for control of food-borne pathogens