South Korea: Standards and Specifications for Foods
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of the Republic of Korea notified the World Trade Organization of the Proposed Amendments to the Standards and Specifications for Foods.
Philippines: Risk Analysis
The Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards of Philippines notified the World Trade Organization of the Philippine National Standard- Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Food Safety Application by Governments.
Philippines: Microbiological Risk Assessment
The Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards of Philippines notified the World Trade Organization of the Principles and Guidelines for the Conduct of Microbiological Risk Assessment.
Philippines: Traceability
The Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards of Philippines notified the World Trade Organization of the Philippine National Standard-Principle for Traceability/Product Tracing as a Tool within a Food Inspection and Certification System.
Mexico: MRLs Guidelines
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food of Mexico notified the World Trade Organization of the Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-000-SAG-FITO/SSA1-2013: Maximum residue levels. Technical guidelines, authorization procedure and review.
Japan: MRLs Update
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan notified the World Trade Organization of the Revision of the Standards and Specifications for Foods and Food Additives under the Food Sanitation Act (Revision of agricultural chemical residue standards).
India: MRLs Update
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India notified the World Trade Organization of the Proposed Draft Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Amendment Regulations, 2017 related to tolerance related to harmonization of MRL of pesticide.
Almond Consumption May Help Improve HDL “Good” Cholesterol
This recently study published in The Journal of Nutrition wanted to determine whether incorporating 43g/day of almonds in a cholesterol-lowering diet would improve HDL cholesterol.
Walnut Consumption May Help Induce Favourable Nutrient Profile in Elderly People
Diet quality is known to decline among elderly people, whom require higher levels of nutrients to promote and maintain an optimal health status. The main objective of this study published recently in the British Journal of Nutrition was to observe the daily inclusion of walnuts (43g/day) to the habitual diet of free-living older adults (walnut group) and then compared with a similar group of participants but abstaining from walnut consumption (control group).
Nut Consumption is Associated with Reduced Mortality
This study, published recently in Food & Function journal conducted a search through PUBMED and EMBASE to evaluate the nut-mortality association. Previous studies showed a consistent inverse association between nut consumption and all-cause mortality, but the associations with cause-specific mortality remained unclear.