2011

21 Oct 2011	Wageningen UR starts forensic research project
	Wageningen University and RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety (both parts of Wageningen UR) are initiating a new national forensic research project. It is one of nine research proposals that have been... more
15 Sep 2011	Stop injecting
	A drastic reduction is needed in the use of antibiotics in livestock farming if the spread of drug-resistant bacteria in the healthcare system is to be halted, say experts. How urgent is the problem... more
19 Aug 2011	Wageningen UR European coordinator of world-wide sustainability consortium
	Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) is to coordinate the activities of the globally-operating Sustainability Consortium in Europe. In order to do so, it will be setting up the European... more
8 Aug 2011	One-and-a-half million euros for stem cell research in plants
	The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded dr. Dolf Weijers, Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Laboratory at Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR, a so-called Starting Grant worth... more
25 Jul 2011	RIKILT finds nano particles in cosmetics
	Commissioned by Natuur en Milieu, RIKILT (part of Wageningen UR) has done research on the presence of nano particles in cosmetics.15 products have been analysed and 8 of them contained nano... more
8 Jul 2011	Quality labels restrict access for food from developing countries
	The requirements supermarkets impose on farmers and market gardeners in terms of food safety, sustainability and quality restrict access to Europe for food from developing countries. That is because... more
7 Jul 2011	Wageningen University one of three winners Thought for food
	Student teams from Wageningen University together with teams from Imperial University and Reading University have been selected as winners of the pan-European Thought for Food student challenge on... more
6 Jun 2011	Nanotechnology in food and agriculture barely an issue among consumers
	Consumers in the Netherlands do not really know what nanotechnology is. They are critical, but not dismissive. This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from Wageningen UR (University &... more
19 May 2011	Chair of the Executive Board of Wageningen UR appointed to Advisory Council to Malaysian Prime Minister
	Dr. Aalt Dijkhuizen (1953), Chair of the Executive Board of Wageningen UR (University & Research centre), has been appointed as a member of the International Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of... more
18 May 2011	Wageningen UR contributes to ‘Metropolitan Food Security’ in China
	‘Metropolian Food Security’ was a key theme at the Sino Dutch Agricultural Innovation Conference, which was held in Beijing on Wednesday 11 May to mark the official visit to China by Maxime Verhagen,... more
16 May 2011	EU should speed up authorisation process for GM animal feed
	The European Union should speed up the authorisation processes for novel GM events, to preserve the relative importance of the EU market in animal feed products. In this context, it is necessary to... more
31 Mar 2011	Dutch grass does not contain any radioactivity from Japan
	RIKILT, part of Wageningen UR, has this week tested samples of Dutch grass for the presence of radioactivity. This was in response to the events at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. In line... more
25 Mar 2011	Demonstrable difference between organic and regular eggs
	RIKILT, part of Wageningen UR, has developed a method for verifying whether an egg is organic with the help of analytical techniques. The method works by reading a ‘fingerprint’ of components of the... more
17 Mar 2011	Sport viewers eat less
	Here is a handy tip for those who want to eat less: watching exercise ads on TV could very well reduce food intake in the meal after. This surprising conclusion is drawn by Ellen van Kleef, a... more
	Gluten-free and looking like bread
	Gluten-free bread is hardly edible, according to bread lovers. But change is on its way. PhD student Lieke van Riemsdijk replaced gluten in bread with tiny particles of milk protein. The result was... more
	Overweight? Get someone else’s gut bacteria
	People who are overweight may have different gut bacteria from those in their slender fellow human beings. This is the contention of Willem de Vos, professor of Microbiology at Wageningen University... more
11 Mar 2011	Comments from Wageningen: Antibiotic target for livestock still far off
	Antibiotic prescriptions in Dutch livestock farming went down by 12 percent last year, reported the veterinary medicine producer organization FIDIN. Is that good enough? Tjeerd Kimman, researcher... more
7 Feb 2011	Food Safety Initiative – Indonesia
	How can fruit and vegetables produced in Indonesia be guaranteed to be safe to eat? How can they be produced without damaging the environment or endangering farmers’ health? One of the instruments... more
24 Jan 2011	Increasing levels of phosphate in farmland soil
	Phosphate levels in arable farmland have risen over the past thirty years, despite the restrictive policy on manure. This is the conclusion of Alterra (part of Wageningen UR) researchers in the... more
	Unhealthy snacks play on our unconscious
	Chances are small that young people will exchange the Mars bar or bag of chips in their hands for an apple or an orange. Even when they know that fruit is healthier and this is widely reported. That... more
6 Jan 2011	Go-ahead for field test with cisgene apples
	Plant Research International, part of Wageningen UR, has been given the go-ahead to carry out field tests with cisgene apples with resistance to apple scab. The Commission on Genetic Modification... more