Ingredients supplier Lyckeby Stärkelsen has developed a new range
of products based on potato fibre. The first to be launched is
LYCKEBY PM 50. This product is developed for injected poultry
products and has a dual-purposes.
The European Community has proposed two new food additives, zinc
acetate and hydrogen, to be included in the Codex International
Numbering System for Food Additives
The fourth annual conference on the hotly discussed topic of food
irradiation, "Food Irradiation 2002: The Global Summit for Food
Safety," is to take place from March 20 to 22, 2002, at the
Sheraton Park Central Hotel in...
An economic downturn may not hurt the U.K. market for organic food
products, Robert Duxbury, technical manager for organic products at
J Sainsbury PLC told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.
US consumer products group Sara Lee Corporation announced today
that the company's subsidiary headquartered in The Netherlands has
signed an agreement for the acquisition of the Polish coffee
business, Prima S.A.
Organic broiler chickens are three times as likely as
conventionally-bred poultry to be contaminated with a bacterium
that causes food-poisoning, say Danish vets, the New Scientist
reports this week.
The Japanese government is to temporarily place a total ban on the
distribution of imported and domestically produced meat and bone
meal (MBM), an animal feed suspected of causing mad cow disease,
government sources said yesterday.
Exporters to the U.S. market should pay particular attention to
instant food products, such as frozen dishes that can be cooked by
microwave, according to the Thai Farmers Research Center (TFRC),
The Nation reports this week.
The UK Food Standards Agency has acted to ensure that certain Greek
olive-pomace oil products with unacceptably high levels of
potentially cancer-causing chemicals have been removed from sale.
