Danish ingredients company Danisco continues on the innovative
trail with the addition of a new pectin to its Grinsted series.
Earlier in the year the company invested in a pectin boost by
expanding its Czech production facilities.
Frozen food giant McCain Foods has selected CPIM software from
FullTilt. The company believes that this will help it to
synchronise its product information across more than 55 production
facilities on six continents.
Food safety giant SureBeam has announced that it will close its
Vernon, California processing service centre in an effort to
consolidate its processing services business.
Snapple is to be the official beverage supplier of all public
amenities in the city of New York in a deal worth more than $200
million over the next five years. The drinks supplied to the city's
schools will meet strict nutrition...
ADM, a leading supplier of health ingredients, will exhibit a range
of products derived from natural sources at the forthcoming Health
Ingredients Europe exhibition in Paris from 17-19 September 2002.
In the run up to the Food ingredients Europe exhibition in
Frankfurt this November we shall report on a variety of ingredients
companies as they prepare for the event. Today it is the turn of
Belgian company Orafti.
Two years ago to the day terrorist attacks in the United States
struck a nation, leaving the country shocked, angry and vulnerable.
As the country continues to recover, national security remains very
much a top priority, in particular...
"We have fundamentally reformed our farm policy," and with
these words Dr. Franz Fischler, European Commissioner for
Agriculture kicked-off his first speech at the WTO ministerial
conference in Cancun, Mexico that opened...
Heart healthy flavonoids, often removed in processing because they
are bitter, could actually improve the taste of certain food
products, reports a scientist in the US. Clearing the way for a
boost of flavonoid fortification in food.
Danish ingredients company Danisco Sugar said this week that it
expects an overall production considerably above the quotas
specified by the EU and on a par with production in recent record
years.
Cantrell & Cochrane, the Irish drinks group, has launched a new
isotonic sports drink, Club Energise, backed with a €1m marketing
budget. Six per cent of revenues from the brand will be used to
support Irish sportsmen and women,...
A five year investment programme for rice derivative producer Remy
Industries, part of the Orafti group, has paid off with the company
obtaining an 'extended HACCP' certificate from Lloyd's.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted
approval for a proprietary formulation of lactoferrin. The ruling
paves the way for the commercial application of this new food
safety technology.
Pioneering Belgian ingredients supplier Orafti Active Food
Ingredients is the first, and only, producer of inulin and
oligofructose to get the GMP stamp of approval from the American
Institute of Baking.
More news from this week's national meeting of the American
Chemical Society with scientists claiming to have identified a new
cholesterol fighter in red wine.
As the industry turns to new income sources, dairy companies are
fast turning whey into value-added food ingredients for the food,
dietary supplements and nutraceutical industry, claims a new
report.
Regulations governing the labelling and marketing of food products
do not go far enough, claimed one anti-obesity group last week. But
pushing through tougher rules will be a hard task, according to
Datamonitor, with the food industry...
New knowledge on mad cow disease emerges as researchers across the
Atlantic claim to have developed a faster test for identifying the
disease, possibly even in living cows.
New evidence to support the health benefits of cranberries comes
from the US this week as researchers suggest cranberries may reduce
brain cell damage associated with stroke.
New knowledge on mad cow disease emerges as researchers across the
Atlantic claim to have developed a faster test for identifying the
disease, possibly even in living cows.
Innovative ingredients supplier Nutrinova will exhibit its DHActive
in numerous forms at this year's FiE show in Frankfurt, including
the new soft gels, a functional drink and a nutrition bar.
On the eve of the 5th WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, the
Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU, the voice
of the €600 billion European food and drink industry, urges WTO
members to come to a balanced framework...
Paprika, used as a food colourant and flavour enhancer throughout
the world, has attracted the focus of regional economic
initiatives, governments and agribusiness from South Africa to
Zambia. In Zambia, family agribusiness Bimzi...
Discovering genetic fingerprints of heat-beating micro-organisms
could bring us closer to understanding why some foods spoil and how
bacteria manage to survive heat treatments.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (GCB) has secured a US$650 million loan to
purchase cocoa for the 2003/2004 cocoa season. The facility, the
highest in the history of the Board and repayable within a year,
was arranged by four leading banks...
In our first news of the day from the Society for General
Microbiology's meeting in the UK this week, scientists from the
Institute for Animal Health announced progress towards controlling
the deadly E. coli bacterium that causes...
DMV International, a division of dairy giant Campina, has entered
into an agreement with AgriMark, USA, for the production of its
bioactive protein lactoferrin.
Long term sustainable growth is the key aim for a far-reaching
development process at Swedish fats and oils company Karlshamns,
the company confirmed recently when it announced its first half
results for 2002. An increasingly competitive...
An industry tie-up to find cheaper production methods for flavours
is already bearing fruit as Swiss flavours giant Givaudan announces
'key milestone' in research on gene pathways.
"We want to make the Doha Development Agenda a success." For
Agriculture European Commissioner Franz Fischler this is Europe's
number one objective for the upcoming WTO trade talks in Mexico
next week. And to achieve...
Women are worth €1,400 billion, a figure set to swell to €2,000
billion by 2008. Long acknowledged as a powerful consumer force, a
new study from Datamonitor suggests that the modern perception of
women provides new growth opportunities...
Calcium could help the body fight E coli, the bacteria often
responsible for traveller's diarrhea, and a cause of illness in
children and the elderly in developing countries, suggests new
research from the Netherlands.
The sale of US Foodservice - suggested as a possible means of
recovering some of its lost reputation - has been dismissed by
Ahold's new chief executive Anders Moberg. But what exactly he
plans to do to redress the comapny is...
As governments, consumer groups and scientists all voice as one the
dangers of high sugar diets, encouraging us to cut the sugar
consumption, opportunities for growth in the sugar-free market
continue to multiply for food manufacturers.
A report carried out at the request of the Commission's Enterprise
DG has concluded that innovation capabilities in the candidate
countries still lag behind those within the 15 current Member
States, report CORDIS.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocate of safer
food, will be hosting a one-day conference to examine some of the
best models for reducing or eliminating food-safety hazards at the
farm level.
In 2001 enough sausages were sold in Britain to go around the world
five times. That's a lot of sausages, but also - as the UK food
agency points out this week - a lot of salt.
Albert Heijn, the flagship Dutch supermarket chain of the embattled
Ahold group, is to axe around 440 jobs in a bid to cut costs and
keep pace with its main competitors.
Casino, the French retail group, is hoping to benefit from an
improvement in exchange rates in the second half after a first half
of steady growth driven by its domestic discount store operations.
In a landmark decision, the European Commission has blocked the
first attempt by an EU region to turn itself into a statutory
GM-free zone. The EU body ruled that governments that tried to ban
genetically-modified crops would be in...
The International Pepper Community (IPC) - gathered in India this
week - has agreed to tackle falling pepper sales, aiming to get
quality standards accepted by importing and exporting countries all
around the world. IPC hopes on NPD...
Somerfield is still to find a solution to the question of how to
turn around the performance of the discount store chain acquired in
1998. The latest quarterly figures show that while Somerfield
improved, Kwik Save sales actually...
Regular alcohol intake, thought to reduce the risk of
cardiovascular disease, is associated with lower prevalence of
metabolic syndrome, reported Greek researchers at the European
Society of Cardiology meeting earlier this week.
Irish ingredients, flavours and end products company Kerry shrugged
off currency fluctuations and sluggish industry growth rates for
the first six months of 2003. Health and exposure to ready meals
offer particularly good growth opportunities.
McVities is relaunching its low-fat range of biscuits and cakes
sold under the Go Ahead! brand, with a new pack design and a number
of new products. But is the decision to market the range as
offering both health benefits and all...
The Irish food safety agency has warned the food industry to be
vigilant and efficient or 'face the consequences' as investigations
continue into the biggest outbreak of E. coli O157 in
Ireland to date.
Ending months of speculation Dutch life science products company
DSM announced today that is to pay CHF 3.5 billion (€2.4 billion)
for Roche's vitamins and fine chemicals division.
When Roche launched the sale of the division...
Despite its troubles in the US market, where a number of stores
have closed as a result of heavy losses, Belgium's Delhaize group
is continuing to expand there. It has acquired the Georgia-based
Harveys group, which is a good...
Ambitious Israeli soy ingredients company Solbar Industries keeps
the new products rolling out with the launch this week of Solpro
900, a soy protein isolate for infant formula, nutritional foods
and beverages, as its investment programme...
Still red wine sales are set to grow at a rate faster than that of
the global wine market as a whole over the next five years, driven
by increasing awareness of health issues and a more knowledgeable
wine drinking public, according...
