All news articles for January 2014

Yildiz sells yeast unit for €162m

Yildiz sells yeast unit for €162m

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

Turkish food group Yildiz Holding has sold its yeast unit Dosu Maya to French firm Le Saffre for €162m.

Denmark looks to tap into Chinese organic market

Danish meat firm prepares to tap China organic market

By By Gerard O’Dwyer, in Helsinki

Friland A/S, Denmark’s largest specialist organic meats producer, plans to adopt a market entry strategy of “thinking big but starting small” in China, following the company gaining an important foothold on the potentially lucrative Chinese organic meats...

Consultation on sale of raw milk

Public consultation ends April 30

FSA wants clear rules for raw milk

By Rachel Arthur

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is proposing to clarify rules for selling unpasteurized, or raw, milk and cream. 

John Giles looks back and forwards

Looking back to look forwards

By John Giles, divisional director, Promar International

Although the New Year has come and gone, there is still the opportunity to both look back and forwards to see what has happened in the past 12 months and what might happen in the next 12.

IPPE 2014 exhibitors such as Battelle shared a wealth of information with attendees on safety-related topics and tech.

COMMENT ON IPPE 2014

Meat and poultry pros dedicated to 100% safety

By Jenni Spinner

The curtain has closed on the International Production and Processing Expo, but its mission to improve the safety of the world's meat and poultry supply lives on.

ICD said WHO is, “tending towards pulling back from collaboration with major food companies”.

When you say NGO, they say conflict of interest?

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

The World Health Organisation (WHO) decision to grant NGO status to a malnutrition-battling business alliance raised eyebrows this week, so what do organisations have to do to gain and keep such a status?

Beyond meat substitutes: What’s hot in vegetarian food?

Special Edition: Plant-based diets

Beyond meat substitutes: What’s hot in vegetarian food?

By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Vegetarians aren’t necessarily looking for alternative proteins or meat analogues, and makers of meat-free meals are embracing a range of trendy flavours and ingredients, says Classic Cuisine’s new product development manager Paul Hunt.

OARC opens in Sohar.

Oman opens $385m aluminium rolling plant

By Jenny Eagle

Oman Aluminium Rolling Company (OARC) has opened a $385m plant in Sohar, north of the capital Muscat, which will be operational by the end of Q1 2014.

Food Safety recall round-up 24-30 January

Food Safety recall round-up 24-30 January

Recalls: Allergens, Listeria and packaging fault

By Joseph James Whitworth

This week in the recall round-up the reasons behind food withdrawals takes us to USA, England, Canada, Australia and Belgium.

Proposed changes to FDA regulations could affected US and foreign manufacturers of canned foods.

FDA guidance impacts canned food firms

By Jenni Spinner

Suggested changes to FDA regulations on canned foods could throw processors for a loop; an expert on such draft guidances shares the ins and outs with FoodProductionDaily.

BNF: there is a “stark socio-economic gradient” surrounding childhood obesity in the UK

BNF school nutrition report marks "room for improvement"

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

Although some progression has been made, there remains considerable room for improvement in the diets of British schoolchildren, according to a report from the British Nutrition Foundation.  

EU requirements on smoked meat threatens Latvian processors

Latvia to lose smoked meat processing capacity

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

A number of Latvian meat processors may close their businesses this year, due to the fact they will not be able to meet the EU’s new requirements on the quality of smoked meat products, according to reports from several meat companies.

Russians claim meat growth promoters decrease life expectancy

Meat growth promoters decrease life expectancy, argue Russians

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Consumption of meat containing growth promoters, such as ractopamine, can lead to functional disturbances in the human body and cardiovascular disease, according to the results of a recent study from Russian state sanitary service Rospotrebnadzor. This,...

Step aside soy!  We’re having neatballs for dinner…

Special edition: Plant-based diets

Step aside soy! We’re having neatballs for dinner…

By Elaine WATSON

“This isn't meat,” said Phil Lapp’s nine-year-old daughter Morgan after wolfing down some home-made meat-free tacos one evening in 2011. “This is neat”.

Simon is a lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Intro to our new guest columnist

Food safety and quality: An inside view

By Joseph James Whitworth

To further tap into the food safety and quality control industry FoodQualityNews.com will be hosting guest articles from a Cardiff Metropolitan University lecturer.

Japanese cuisine is trending as the top global food choice, ahead of Thai, Middle Eastern and Italian, claims Euromonitor

Japanese cuisine fastest growing in EMEA

By Kacey Culliney

Consumers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have a taste for Japanese cuisine and manufacturers can tap into this with meal, spice and oil kits, says Euromonitor.

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