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Food brands prepare to follow GLP-1 users on and off the drugs
3+ hour, 40+ min ago (647+ words) Just a few years ago, some food makers planned to wait around for GLP-1 users drop off the weight-loss medications and revert to their usual eating habits, Gali Artzi said recently. Today that thinking is toast. Artzi, the chief technology…...
Guest article: The future of glyphosate may rest with innovators, not lawyers
4+ week, 19+ hour ago (576+ words) Dan Blaustein-Rejto is director of food and agriculture at'the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental research organization based in Oakland, US. The path beyond glyphosate should run through better weed-control technology, not abrupt restriction or removal from the market. Precision sprayers, AI-powered…...
FDA exempts tagatose from added sugar labeling
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (550+ words) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has exempted low-cal sweetener tagatose from "added sugar" labeling requirements on US food labels following a lengthy campaign by Virginia-based startup Bonumose'to get the agency to change its position. While interest in tagatose…...
There are 'credible legal questions as to whether FDA has the legal authority to eliminate self-GRAS,' say legal experts
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1051+ words) A proposed rule that would effectively eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway has been with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) since December 1, with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) expected soon. This will be followed by a public comment…...
Bindbridge taps targeted protein degradation to 'unlock a new toolbox' for the crop protection industry
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (566+ words) The crop protection industry urgently needs new solutions to combat herbicide and insecticide resistance and unlock new modes of action. Targeted protein degradation'which hijacks the internal "waste disposal" systems in pests and weeds to destroy proteins essential to their survival…...
Beyond glyphosate: Quercus Bio targets weeds with designer proteins
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (995+ words) As resistance to legacy chemical herbicides spreads and biologicals struggle to scale, a new class of crop protection tools is emerging that aims to combine the best of both worlds. Quercus Biosolutions is designing "mini proteins" from scratch'leveraging AI tools…...
Totality Biosciences bets on plants to scale human milk oligosaccharides for a wider audience
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (1159+ words) Several firms now use microbes to produce high value human milk oligosaccharides for infant formula. But could plants be a better production vehicle? Ag Funder News (AFN) caught up with Totality Biosciences cofounder and CEO Leila Strickland, Ph D (LS),…...
Crop Diagnostix launches RNA-based crop health early-warning system
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (917+ words) A visual inspection of crops may suggest all is well. A tissue sample analyzed with spectroscopy may reveal otherwise. But both are lagging indicators of crop health, says California-based startup Crop Diagnostix, which is pioneering an approach it claims can…...
As "fibermaxxing" gains traction, one. bio launches invisible oat fiber: 'We could add 50g and you still wouldn't notice it"
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (1013+ words) One. bio, a startup with tech enabling formulators to add "invisible" fibers to foods and beverages at inclusion rates of 20g+ without compromising taste or texture, is gearing up to launch its first products next week. Flavorless, odorless, colorless, and water-soluble,…...
A 10-page reset? Nutrition experts unpack the new US dietary guidelines
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (353+ words) The 2025-30 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were always likely to be contentious. But few expected them to land with quite this level of heat. Slimmed down to just 10 pages and packaged with a graphic'the inverted food pyramid'dubbed by some dietitians as…...