A leading manufacturer of hydrolyzed vegetable proteins for the
food industry has reformulated its product line in order to meet
non trans-fat label requirements.
Australian ingredients and food group Burns Philp cashes in on
value creation to fund future investments, spinning off its baking,
spreads and oils divisions into a separate firm.
Nutrition profiling proposals from the UK's food watchdog would put
milk in the same health bracket as diet coke and make breast milk
unsuitable for children, claims a dairy industry body critical of
the scheme.
In issuing a set of successful procedures on reducing acrylamide
formation during manufacturing processes, the EU's food industry
association is attempting to help its smaller members get on the
right side of public opinion.
Sucralose supplier Tate and Lyle warns profits at its European
sugar refining business have been "substantially reduced"
due to higher costs and oversupplies.
Europe's opposition to genetically modified ingredients will
significantly increase producers' costs over the next three years
as it becomes ever harder to secure GM-free supplies, says a new
report.
UK scientists are offering food processors risk assessments to help
them determine how to keep their products from becoming botulism
producing factories.
CSM's sugar beet processing plant in Hoogkerk, the Netherlands is
now fully online following the closure of the firm's Breda factory
earlier this year.
The UK government will announce plans to ban junk food in the
nation's schools, bringing an end to the sale of crisps, chocolate
and fizzy drinks in school vending machines.
Feeding cows sunflower oil more than doubled levels of conjugated
linoleic acids in cheese made from their milk, says new research,
improving the fatty acids' potential in functional dairy
development.
Coping with reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has
taken centre-stage for dairy firms across the bloc as Dutch group
Campina outlines a plan to swallow more than €80m of losses in aid
since 2003.
The trial of Calisto Tanzi, founder of scandal-hit Italian dairy
giant Parmalat, commences today amid charges of false accounting
and share price manipulation.
A coating technology, first used to keep cookies crisp, may be the
key to opening up new applications for probiotic bacteria like
cereals or ice-cream.
DSM Nutritional Products has announced a 15 per cent price increase
for all its citric acid products, reflecting industry-wide concern
about increasing energy, raw material and freight costs.
A chance to fight Pierce's disease, one of the wine industry's most
deadly foes, at its origins has come a step closer after scientists
found common weeds nestling in vineyards were helping the sickness
to spread.
Scientists from Manchester University have developed a new
technique that uses infrared light to spot bacterial contamination
in food within seconds rather than hours, while products are on the
processing line.
There is nothing so redolent of a corporate mid-life crisis as the
strategic equivalent of a new car, new girl and new image, set
firmly on the shoulders of the same old idea. McDonald's, it seems,
is firmly in the throes of...
The UK's Food Standards Agency has widened the investigation into
the outbreak of E. coli food poisoning illness in Wales as parents
start calling for a public inquiry.
Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern has called for the food
industry to support the CAP, at a time when the system is coming
under intense criticism.
A UK lobby group is targeting the Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil
industries, claiming that intense farming of plantations is
threatening the orang-utan with extinction.
Danisco has announced the next phase in its global cultures
expansion programme, investing €3 million in ramping up production
capacity of freeze-dried cultures at its plant in Sassenge.
Calcium supplements may not increase the bone mineral density in
young women after a certain threshold level of intake has been
achieved, according to a new study from Creighton University.
Canterbury Foods' management is hoping the relaxation of the UK's
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) rules will ease the troubles
its meat processing division is facing in a declining market with
increasing input prices.
Food processors, especially those pasturising egg whites and
importing poultry ingredients from abroad, should remain vigilant,
according to advice on avian influenza from the EU's food safety
regulator.
Swiss dairy group Emmi is rolling out the blood-pressure lowering
drink Evolus to its home market this month, under license with
Finnish dairy group Valio.
Scientists have discovered how an apple allergy protein retains its
potency, a move that could help the food industry understand how
best to deal with allergy-causing ingredients.
Danone's chairman appeared to defend French government proposals
for more transparency from firms during takeover rumours, in an
internal interview concerning the recent PepsiCo gossip.
School fruit in the UK contains over 25 per cent more pesticides
than samples of fruit and vegetables available in shops, according
to an alarming new study.
Heinz is pulling out of its frozen food business in Europe, will
boost its presence in China and Russia, and spend more on
developing new processing and packaging methods targeted at growing
marketcategories such as "natural"...
A method of using smart labels to indicate remaining shelf life on
food products is about to be launched commercially by UK-based
Timestrip and Nestlé.
EU farm ministers met with African and Caribbean counterparts on
Monday to discuss the sweeping EU sugar reform that will bring
cheaper sugar ingredients into the bloc.
Tate & Lyle's new Global Food Ingredients Group, which will be
responsible for global food ingredients marketing and growth
opportunities, reflects the acceleration of the group's growth
strategy.
