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Foods that have “gluten-free” on their label may actually contain significant amounts of gluten -- enough to cause gastrointestinal

Companies will no longer be able to produce or sell beer infused with caffeine in California starting January 1.

A new study looking at New York City's fast-food restaurants found only one in six customers actually read them.

The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released an advance copy of a proposed rule entitled “Common or Usual Name for Raw Meat and Poultry Products.” 

The European Food Safety Authority evaluated a proposed claim for a probiotic in children and reached the following conclusion.

The steady demand for weight-loss products has spread to include a wide range of food and beverage products. Many weight-loss products have moved towards claims with a focus on satiety, appetite suppression and thermogenesis. Novel methods in weight-loss claims require companies to make sure they have proper substantiation, however.

The nation's largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthier foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines proposed by the federal government.

China's Ministry of Health has issued a national standard on compound food additives to better regulate the production and use of such additives and ensure food safety.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved an application to increase the maximum permitted levels of a high-intensity sweetener and an application to use a genetically modified soybean in food and notified the approvals to the Ministerial Council.

Federal regulators have issued two new rules expanding the government’s ability to seize products it considers dangerous and to prevent potentially contaminated food from entering the country.