Jose Manuel López

The Hidden Mathematics of Food Texture - Europe's 2026 Hydrocolloid Reform Exposes the Gap Between Mixture Compliance, Microbial Purity and Infant Physiology

The European Union’s revised rules for seven widely used hydrocolloids and modified starches became applicable on 18 August 2026. Their significance extends beyond new limits for guar gum, locust bean gum, xanthan, acacia gum, pectins, carrageenan and starch sodium octenyl succin...

Fog-in-Place (FIP): Aerosol Engineering, Surface Decontamination, Industrial Evidence and Translational Opportunities for Livestock Arthropod Management

Background: Fog-in-Place (FIP) is a convenient process-level term for automated airborne distribution of treatment media within industrial and animal-housing environments. It is not a standardized technology class, a formulation identity, or evidence of efficacy. Objectives: To c...

Fog-in-Place (FIP): Engineering, Microbiological Validation and Risk-Based Deployment of Automated Aerosol Treatments

Fog-in-Place (FIP) denotes an operational approach in which a treatment medium is dispersed into an enclosed or semi-enclosed facility as a fog or aerosol, with the objective of reaching distributed surfaces while limiting manual point-by-point application. FIP is a process descr...

When a Trace Becomes an Ingredient · The FDA's 2026 Threshold-of-Regulation Proposal and the Scientific Limits of Exposure-Based Food Authorisation

An August 2026 U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposal, brought into renewed public debate on 10 October, would extend the Threshold of Regulation (TOR) exemption from substances migrating out of food-contact materials to substances added directly to food. It would also replac...