You could be forgiven for thinking that ‘umami’ is the name of a hurricane or word concocted by comic Vic Reeves for use on his TV show Shooting Stars. That simply isn’t true. What is true, though, is that ‘umami’ is an invented word, created by Dr Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University in 1908. […]
RSPH Winner for Verner Wheelock and Symington’s Last year three of our delegates won top student awards from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) so we were really pleased to hear that another of our delegates had won an RSPH award this year. Sarah Jolly-Hart from Symington’s in Leeds has gained top marks in the
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety Training HACCP training Monthly UpdatesSome studies have shown that people eating a plant-based diet tend to live longer and healthier lives than meat-eaters. In fact vegetarians have a lower incidence of cancer, especially colon, stomach, mouth, oesophagus, lung, prostate, bladder, and breast cancers. It’s reckoned that this is probably attributed to the phytonutrients present in plant foods, as well
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsListeria monocytogenes – it’s a little critter, but it’s been making quite a name for itself recently. If you’ve been reading the newspapers or following various food safety alerts, you’ll be aware that there have been several product recalls on account of confirmed or suspected incidences of Listeria, especially in the United States. The most
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety Training HACCP trainingSpace…The final frontier… several thousand light years from a dairy farm, bakery or food processing plant. So who’d have imagined that the HACCP food safety management systems we follow today had their origins in the USA’s space programme? Houston, we have a problem… Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) began life in the early
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