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CIAA’s policy mainly aims at regulating approaches to quality schemes, novel foods and ingredients, additives and enzymes, additives and flavourings, enzymes, nutrition and health claims, vitamins and minerals additives, labeling and obesity.

The European Commission is currently reviewing the ETS directive, and plans to table a proposal for revised legislation in 2007.

The CIAA has criticized the scheme for being a heavy administrative burden on small plants, which is often disproportionate to the low level of their actual emissions.

The importance of the scheme for the food and drink sector is reflected in the fact that, for instance, in France small percentage of all ETS installations are food and drink sites. CIAA AISBL, the Confederation of the Food and Drink Industries of the European Union, is an international association registered under Belgian law. Its mission is to represent the interests of the food and drink industry at European and international level.

CIAA said the food industry has accessed the functioning of the system and has concluded that procedures must be harmonized among regulators issuing alerts to avoid different interpretations of the law.

CIAA finds it important to evaluate the validity, accuracy and necessity of notifications carefully and to make the outside reader aware of existing national legislation that can trigger results. The association stated to use the system as an effective communication tool, emphasizing on the fact that information is important, and it is also necessary in order to avoid misleading or contradictory warnings as some warnings are not food safety related.

The CIAA also called for the food operator concerned to be informed of the problem as part of the procedure as early as possible. The operator must have the right to provide further information, such as test results, in order to add to the evaluation.

The CIAA’s membership is made up of 24 national federations, including two observers. There are 32 EU sector associations, 21 major food and drink companies grouped together in a liaison committee.

Via: dairyreporter

Elizabeth White’s, 14 months, first encounter with peanuts turned into a disaster when the toddler’s airways clogged. So, how we can train kids and make them immune to food allergies?

Researchers find that the allergies can be limited by adapting the child to the foods he is not allowed to take and with oral immunotherapy. It just may work, suggest preliminary results from a handful of youngsters allergic to peanuts or eggs - and who, after two years of treatment, seem protected enough that an accidental bite of the forbidden foods is no longer a huge threat. The worry levels of parents will really go.

Allergies to pollen and other environmental triggers often are treated with shots called immunotherapy.

A series of injections containing small amounts of the allergen builds up patients’ tolerance, reducing or even eliminating symptoms in many people.

Food allergies involve an interaction between the body’s immune system and the protein in a particular food. The allergy antibody involved in food allergy is called immunoglobulin E (IgE). It is important to distinguish true food allergies from other reactions because true allergies can lead to severe or potentially fatal reactions called anaphylaxis. This is why you may hear food allergy referred to as anaphylactic food allergy.

Cow’s milk, eggs and peanuts trigger the most common food allergies for children. Food allergies are most common in the first three years of life. Allergies are very common; some people are allergic to milk products, some to wheat, some to nuts and some to specific food. The simplest way to stay away from allergies is by taking safety, preventive measures.

Via: RedOrbit

Vindex Tengker, the executive chef with the four Seasons Hotel who prepares hamburgers at a hotel in Jakarta has launched a million-rupee (110-dollar) hamburger, thought to be most expensive, in the East and West.
The seven-ounce (200-gram) burger is made from finest Japanese Kobe beef with wasabi mayonnaise and Italian portobello mushrooms in a home-made onion-wheat bun.

Asians have developed love for food they appreciate the variety. The hamburger served along French fries and a glass of wine will do well. Of course when you start something new, there will be doubts. But those who appreciate food will pay for the hamburger.

Horsegram is also known as ULava, kulit, kuthee, Kollu, Muthira. This can be served with rice and chapatti. The popular gram known as the poor man’s cereal because it is cheap and can be afforded by peasants. It is used as food and fodder in India.

But I love to eat it as Khatta with rice. I would like to share the recipe of this cereal with you.

Material required.

Tamarind - 250gms soaked in water.
Or you can use Amchoor- 50 to 100gms.
Horsegram soaked for minimum 1/2 hr or 1/hr.
Union - 2 medium sized
Ginger sliced into small strips- 200gms
Oil 1-2tbsp
Mustard seeds -25gms
Salt
Black Pepper
Chili powder
Coriander leaves to garnish.

The method for preparation

Take a deep dish. Add oil to it. When the oil is hot add some ginger and union. After the ginger and unions are golden brown add the mustard seeds, salt, black pepper, turmeric powder, chili powder and Amchoor or Tamarind paste soaked in water. Add soaked Horsegram and let it cook for 15-20 minutes.

Sprinkle with coriander leaves.

Five sliced food and pee soup will be off the menu under a plan to try to standardize the English names of dishes and drinks sold in Beijing restaurants before the 2008 Olympics.

Misspelt food like complicated cake, pee soup, five sliced things, and dumplings stuffed with ovary, digestive glands of a crab and crab in the glass, the carp literally getting translated as crap, are being banished from the city at eating places.

It’s not only the restaurants where the English language is being slaughtered due to funny translation and spellings, but the road signs too.

Examples abound in shopping complexes and malls with signboards displaying ‘fuck the certain price goods’.

At many places the English translation for the China linguistic word ‘entrance’ becomes ‘Enter the mouth”.

To avoid the red faces in the Olympics 2008, Chinese government is eager to set up a major drive to standardize use of English in public, called the ‘Beijing speaks to the world committee’, which scours the capital seeking out menus or road signs lost in mistranslation. It has translated more than 1,000 dishes and drinks so far. ‘We welcome public participation and suggestions,’ The committee told the Beijing Daily.

More people are learning English in China, and the standard has improved in recent years.

Via: The independent

Do have passion for chocolates. I must admit that one of my great delights in life is chocolate. It does not matter what kind of chocolate it is, just as long as it is chocolate. It’s very difficult to find someone who does not like chocolate.

The draw to chocolate is universal and makes chocolate, in any form, size or shape, a most popular gift. This is as true for adults as it is for kids; do you know any child that didn’t love trick-or-treating or getting a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day when they were more mature? No matter if you are big or small, chocolate is a fantastic gift for just anyone.

Bite your tongue! Evidence is mounting that some kinds of chocolate are actually good for you. Here’s the latest about the healthy side of your chocolate eating habit and taste-tested advice on what to try.

Chocolates are rich in magnesium, enhance brain function and digestion. They contain Anandamine, also known as bliss chemical, have high content of Phenylethlyamine and are referred to as love drug. Raw coco powder (sometimes spelt as cacao powder) has no chemicals.

It helps in keeping our heart healthy, keeps blood pressure normal, improve muscle strength, helps in brain gain and metabolism too.

Scientists at the Harvard University School of Public Health recently examined 136 studies on coco, the foundation for chocolate, and found that it does seem to boost heart health.

Coco is rich in flavonoids that make skin rich in moisture, smoother and less scaly. Flavonoids absorb UV light, help protect and increase blood flow to the skin, improving its appearance.

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Drinking eight glasses of water a day helps you remove the waste products in your body. During summers you need more water ,so you need to drink more than eight glasses a day.

As during this time you perspire a lot and if you drink less water, try to compensate by taking more of other fluids. This will help you flush away the waste.

Drinking an adequate amount of water every day is the best treatment for fluid retention. It helps relieve constipation. But when your body is given less water than it needs, it automatically perceives the shortage as a threat to survival and will begin to retain every drop. Water reserves are stored in extra cellular spaces (outside the cells). This water can show up as swollen feet, hands and legs.

Your body can only tolerate certain sodium concentrations. The more salt you eat, the more water your system retains to dilute it. But getting rid of unwanted salt is easy, just drink more water.

And folks, this is not enough, you can even get rid of that extra flab too. How? Check out here.

The Easiest and simple way to relish broccoli is when it is fresh. Broccoli with wine and garlic is a delicious recipe.

Broccoli is a vegetable from Cabbage family, rich in vitamin A and D. It can prevent cancer. During winters, one can opt for broccoli, as it develops the best during this season. Add Broccoli and cook, tossing regularly for eight to ten minute, until the stem is tender. Add wine and slow down the cooking.

I am sure that liquor loving women and men both will relish this dish full of colors. The wine makes it much attractive with its color and the aroma fills the air. The funniest part is that wine changes color as you heat it. Broccoli is cut into spears, lengthwise.

The main ingredients used to prepare it are the olive oil, the spears of broccoli, chili flakes, garlic thinly sliced, orange and lemon.
One can use red or white wine, or experiment with ideas.

Citrus Juices are rich in vitamin C and can be served in your gardens as cocktails, or as appetizers too. Oranges, bitter orange, Rangpur lime, grapefruit all come under the family of citrus fruits. Juices can be prepared fresh at home. The only ingredients required are fruits.

Fruits can be used to cure diseases. for example, lemon juice can be used to cure Bee stings and the orange fruit used in Vitamin C pills and capsules. Vitamins are essential as a diet component.

Juices are relished by every one as they are fresh and easy to make, in fact, they are just a one minute cocktail. I would like to share a juice, made from orange, lemon, apple, grape and the kiwi fruit.

The recipe:

Take a glass add 1-6 out orange juice, 1-6 out apple juice, 1-3 out grape juice,3-5 out lemon Juice.

To garnish take the kiwi fruit cut to slices, along with some orange peal and some grapes.

Cocktails are center of attraction to customers in restaurants and bars. As it’s high time for the Merry X-Mas, we all have another reason, though we don’t require, to tap the opportunity and have fun. People are attracted in the way you represent your presentation.

Cocktails can be served in thanks giving ceremony and as an appetizer too.
On all special occasions one can prepare cocktails at home too.

The ingredients

1-6 out gin,
1-6 out cranberry juice,
1-3 out vodka
4-5 crushed ice cubes.
Mint leaves to garnish
Lemon slices to garnish.

Preparation

Take a glass and add crushed ice cubes to it
Add 1-6 out gin
Add 1-3 out vodka
Add Cranberry juice.
Garnish with Mint leaves and lemon slices.
Serve with a straw.