An increase in positive drug tests for thebanned anabolic steroid
nandrolone has led researchers to suggest that contamination of
legitimate foodsupplements...
US drinks giant, the Coca-Cola Company and Swiss group Nestle S.A.
announced on Tuesday the further development of their existing
joint venture partnership,...
EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and Chilean Foreign Minister
Soledad Alvear have agreed to bring to an end a 20 year old dispute
on spirits, and reached...
Leading banana producer Chiquita Brands International Inc.,
currently facing financial difficulties, has filed a lawsuit
seeking 564 million euros ($525)...
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints
dating from 1997 about the claims made for the "energy" drink Red
Bull, the BBC reports....
Confectionery producer Mars Inc., keen to promote the possible
health benefits of flavonoids, has introduced theCocoapro logo on
confectionery packaging...
Creatine, the dietary supplement popular among athletes to increase
their muscle bulk, may cause cancer, experts warned this week. The
French Agency...
Milk is being made to stay fresher for longer thanks to technology
first pioneered by the creators of ice beer, the BBC reports.
Scandanavian dairy giant...
Brand battered Japanese Snow Brand Milk Products Co. is join up
with Swiss food giant Nestle in a bid to strengthen its knocked
business. The image of...
Switzerland has banned Austrian pork as the growing scandal over
the supply of illegal drugs to Austrian pig farmers claimed its
first ministerial resignation,...
At a meeting last week of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
to discuss threats to the US blood supply, the FDA announced that
it will be considering...
UK company, TasteTech have developed a new method for processing
paprika and turmeric spices. The method is a controlled release
encapsulation, whereby...
Venezuela's Grupo Polar, the brewing company privately held by the
Mendoza family, on Monday offered to buy Mavesa, a local food and
consumer productsmanufacturer,...
The European Union will raise tariffs on U.S. corn gluten imports
next week in response to U.S. tariffs on wheat gluten, a spokesman
said Friday, Associated...
US snack and natural food company Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
announced on Thursday that it had acquired privately held Fruit
Chips B.V., a Dutch manufacturer...
Researchers at US Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre are currently
enrolling patients in a large multi-centre clinical trial to
determine whether two popular...
Japan is to ask the United States to explain how genetically
modified corn banned in Japan has again been discovered in imports
from America, a Health...
UK drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes plc announced
on Thursday the acquisition of the confectionery brand, Mantecol,
in Argentina, for...
Fyffes, Europe's second-biggest banana importer, announced on
Thursday that it would freeze investmentin WorldofFruit.com - a
web-based exchange for...
Italy's first suspected case of BSE has been found in an animal
destined for the McDonald's restaurant chain, The Independent
newspaper reports. Traces...
Traditionally high cholesterol is known to be harmful, now a recent
study has found that too low cholesterol is associated with adverse
behavioural effects...
Japanese dairy goods producer Snow Brand Milk Products Co Ltd said
on Monday it will close a total of five domestic milk plants as it
tries to rebuild...
High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are present in some
overweight children, a new study finds. CRP is a substance that
indicates to doctors the presence...
A new report into the dietary recommendations for iron stresses the
importance of including meat, fish and poultry in the diet as the
best readily-absorbed...
Cerestar USA, part of the French Cerestar Group, and manufacturer
of starch and starch derivatives's for the food industry, has
received GRAS (Generally...
Ajinomoto, the Japanese food seasoning giant, apologised to the
Muslims of Indonesia this week in several major newspapers over the
use of pig enzymes...
An advert that claimed salted peanuts had the same health benefits
as for olive oil has been criticised by the UK advertising
watchdog, the BBC reports....
A cow resistant to the damaging mastitis disease might save the
dairy industry millions of dollars. Researchers at the University
of Vermont (UVM) in...
Britain's milk supply is running at historically low levels and may
fall short of the quota set by the European Commission, the
National Farmers Union...
Geest, the UK prepared foods group, said on Wednesday that it had
completed the acquisition of Cinquieme Saison, a French prepared
salads business ahead...
Canadian dairy food company, PurNutra Inc., is due to launch this
week a new Omega-3/ DHA enriched cheese. The cheese line,
distributed in the U.S under...
Transora.com, the eMarketplace for the consumer packaged goods
industry, and GlobalNetXchange (GNX), the business-to-business
online marketplace for the...
Amid increasing BSE fears in Germany, fast food giant McDonalds has
launched a new burger made entirely from pork. In a bid to protect
sales the fast...
According to researchers at Banyu Pharmaceutical Co. a healthy
human body must have between 180 and 240 milligrams of cholesterol
per 100 millilitres...
The Belgian government has sought an explanation from Stephen
Byers, UK tradeand industry secretary, for his decision to order
Interbrew, the Belgianbrewer...
Maternal diet can influence a babies taste for certain foods,
recent researchpublished in the New Scientist, suggests. A team of
scientists at the EuropeanCentre...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural
ResearchService (ARS) have investigated a variety of broccoli to
discover if theyinduce...
Australian wine makers BRL Hardy Ltd revealed this week that its
new Reynellawinery in South Australia has been awarded Hazard
Analysis Critical ControlPoint...
In December the International Hazard Analysis Critical Control
Point Allianceelected new officers for 2001. Serving on the
executive committee are:
DonDalton,...
