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From: "Food Quality & Safety" <info at foodquality.com>
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Date: 07/15/14 06:47
Subject: Salmonella's Surprising Weak Spot

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  EUPDATE NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Salmonella’s Surprising Weak Spot: A Single Nutrient
The genes needed for acquisition of nutrient could be effective drug targets in order to fight infection
 Researchers looking for novel pathways to attack Salmonella and treat Salmonellosis, the unpleasant and sometimes deadly intestinal disease that it causes, haven’t focused much attention on nutrient sources. It’s been considered a fairly fruitless exercise: Most bacteria can grow on any of a number of nutrients, so if you get rid of one, they just gobble up another. But it turns out that Salmonella is a very picky eater.
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EUPDATE NEWS EXCLUSIVE
New Invention for Producing Sparkling Wine
Rapid separation of magnetized yeast can extract waste yeast in a mere 15 to 20 minutes
 An inexpensive and simple process for producing sparkling wine using a magnetic separation method reduces the time and energy traditionally required to make champagne and other sparking white wines using the méthode champenoise, according to the research team that invented the new method in Ljubljana, Slovenia.


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EUPDATE FEATURE EXCLUSIVE
China’s New Dairy Market Regulations
Market experts weigh in on what foreign dairies in China should expect and how they should protect themselves
 The new regulation, announced in mid-June 2014, is likely to impact foreign brands’ current share of over 60 percent of the milk powder market in China, valued at a total of USD 9.75 billion as of 2013. The policy states that the target for local Chinese brands is set to be 80 percent of market share by 2018, a drastic change from the status quo.

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FROM JUNE/JULY ISSUE OF FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY...
Contamination and Animal Feed

 Last year, there was more than 150 million tons of animal feed manufactured by 6,700 feed mills in the U.S. This does not include more than 8 million tons of pet food manufactured in the U.S. These animal feeds required multiple raw materials mostly from crops grown within the U.S. or Canada.
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