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26 FEB

Free school meals result in healthier lunches

Free school meals have a positive effect on the nutritional quality of school children’s lunches compared to packed lunches brought from home. If parents themselves have...

Nutrition and dietary habits
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30 JAN

An alternative to phthalates is on its way

The harmful phthalates, which have been used as softeners in e.g. plastic toys and food packaging, will possibly be replaced by a plastic softener produced from sunflower...

Food safety Food technology Health and diseases
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22 JAN

Better data for risk assessment

It is difficult and expensive to collect the type of data on which food producers and public authorities base their risk assessment of foods. A PhD project at the National...

Food safety Biotechnology Mathematical modelling
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21 JAN

New book: “Risk Management for Food Allergy”

This book includes practical advice and guidance to the food industry on how to manage food allergens in production and deliver safe foods to food allergic consumers. The...

Food safety
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20 JAN

Least pesticide residues in Danish fruits and vegetables

Danish fruits and vegetables contain fewer pesticide residues than similar foreign foods. Furthermore, more than one residue was more frequently found in samples of foreign...

Food safety Health and diseases
PhD defence on food fortification with vitamin D
20 JAN

PhD defence on food fortification with vitamin D

The National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, invites you to Katja Howarth Madsen’s PhD defence on how fortification of milk and bread with vitamin D...

Nutrition and dietary habits Health-promoting compounds
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16 JAN

Effect of disinfectants on bacteria developing resistance

Biocides, e.g. disinfectants, are used to fight disease-causing bacteria in hospitals and in the food industry, as well as to fight pests and fungi. A PhD project at...

Food safety Health and diseases
Hellefisk i Grønland. Foto: Jesper Boye.
13 JAN

Impact of deep-sea fishery for Greenland halibut

New study: Impact of deep-sea fishery for Greenland halibut on non-commercial fish species off West Greenland

Marine research Ecosystems Fisheries and fish stocks Fish and shellfish
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06 JAN

New possibilities to increase food safety internationally

In future, food authorities worldwide get another tool which can support them in decisions about food safety. So-called risk-based microbiological criteria have been...

Food safety
Pesticide residues in our diet Q3 2013
03 JAN

Pesticide residues in our diet Q3 2013

None of the pesticide residues detected in fruit, vegetables and corn constitute a health risk, show the results of the Danish pesticide control in Q3 2013 from the Danish...

Food safety Health and diseases

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