Whole Foods Market goes gluten-free

11-Oct-2004 Last updated on 18-Mar-2017 at 11:57 GMT

A new bakehouse to be used exclusively to make gluten-free products for those with special dietary needs has been opened by US-based natural and organic supermarket Whole Foods Market, giving the company a lead in providing fresh produce for this growing niche market.

Food allergen labels tighten in US

21-Jul-2004

Food makers operating in Europe shortly face new labelling rules for food allergens on food labels, and as the US cleared its own new rules yesterday, manufacturers present in the US market will see parallel changes.

Ingredients from sorghum, a fitting alternative to wheat?

21-Jun-2004

As rising cereal prices continue to squeeze profit margins for food industry participants, food technologists in the US are working on teasing out new functionalities from the cheap, easy to grow, and resilient crop sorghum, reports Lindsey Partos.

Threshold of allergen food ingredients needs more research

29-Mar-2004

As food manufacturers and ingredients suppliers work towards tough new rules on the labelling of food allergens, Europe's risk assessment body concludes that current scientific evidence is 'insufficient to establish an intake threshold'. Industry and...