Food Business News - December 4, 2012 - 56

Flavorchem opens new liquid production plant
Flavorchem Corp. recently dedicated its new $8.5 million, 44,000-square-foot liquid production plant in Downers Grove, Ill. With the addition, the company now has a larger, more dedicated space for its quality control and regulatory departments, as well as a better equipped training facility for employees.
A Flavorchem plant dedication featured remarks by Kenneth Malinowski, president; Sprovieri family members and the town mayor, Martin Tully. Jackie Sprovieri, wife of the company’s founder, cut the ribbon at the ceremony.

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New study links daily multivitamin use to reduced cancer risk
Parsippany, N.J.-based DSM Nutritional Products welcomed the results of a study to show that a daily intake of a combination of vitamins and minerals may help prevent cancer in men, with an 8% reduction in overall cancer rates. The research, published in an on-line edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, highlights the importance of vitamins and minerals in supporting health and wellbeing and could impact health care provisions globally. The double-blind, placebocontrolled, randomized trial involved 14,600 male physicians over a median follow-up period of 11.2 years and is one of the largest and longest studies ever to take place into the links between multivitamin intake and cancer risk. The trial, conducted by a group of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, found that the reduction in risk varied depending on the type of cancer, although the relatively small number of individual cancer types means the results are not statistically significant. When prostate cancer was excluded from the analysis, the overall reduction in all other cancers was 12%.

New salt reduction ingredient launches globally
Tate & Lyle, London, recently launched a new salt reduction ingredient, SODA-LO Salt Microspheres, that allows food manufacturers to reduce salt levels by 25% to 50% in various applications without sacrificing taste. The product was created using technology that turns standard salt crystals into free-flowing crystalline microspheres. These smaller, lowerdensity crystals efficiently deliver salty taste by maximizing surface area relative to volume. SODA-LO Salt Microspheres have been tested and shown to work well in a variety of foods, including baked goods, breadings and coatings, and salty snacks.

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New pasteurization system provides green technology for food industry
electrical energy from the grid, the material being treated is conveyed through a high frequency electrode array where the alternating electrical energy causes the material to heat rapidly and uniformly throughout the product thickness. This type of direct heating is efficient, in that no energy is wasted heating large volumes of air or preheating the system itself. Additionally, it is “instant-on, instant-off” and uses energy only during the treatment process. The company’s line of pasteurization systems operates at 40MHz where the depth of penetration and uniformity of heating are optimized, ensuring effective microbe kill and avoiding the deleterious effects on product quality from prolonged exposure to high temperatures. The systems are available in conveyor or batch configurations.

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Kalsec adds new heat sensation to line of pepper extracts
Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Kalsec has increased its portfolio of peppers with the addition of a Szechuan pepper extract. Szechuan peppers have a citrus and herbal aroma, as well as a flavor that is different from black, white or chili peppers.

As an alternative to noxious gases or carbon producing thermal techniques, Millis, Mass.-based Radio Frequency Co.’s new Macrowave Pasteurization System uses a high frequency electric field proven to control pathogens. Using

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