All news articles for September 2015

The marketing of food that is high in fat, sugar and salt has been linked to increased child obesity - but food and drink companies disagree.

Readers' Survey

The big debate: Marketing junk food to children

By Niamh Michail

Marketing 'junk' food to children is raising blood pressure all round - and that's just the debate. FoodNavigator looks at some of the arguments that have been made in recent years and asks you, the reader, what you think.

A&W Fresh Produce, HKScan and Leonidas food recalls

Food Safety recall round-up 4-10 September

Recalls: Manufacturing fault, Listeria and Salmonella

By Joseph James Whitworth

A recall round-up for September takes us to Denmark, Sweden, Canada, UK, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia and France. Listeria in ham and Salmonella in cucumbers can be found this week.

Burger buns are important to Jacquet Brossard

French get taste for sliced bread

By Rick Pendrous

While sales of plant bread are falling in the UK, in France they are up as consumers seek better shelf-life over baguettes, as Rick Pendrous discovers

PURE resubmits FCN for SDC produce processing aid

PURE ‘confident’ of success with FCN for produce

By Joseph James Whitworth

PURE Bioscience is to resubmit a Food Contact Notification (FCN) for its antimicrobial in produce processing and has estimated the market opportunity for such processing aids is in excess of $300m.

Heinz drops healthy claim from sugary baby food

By Niamh Michail

Heinz has removed the word ‘healthy’ from adverts for sugary biscotti for babies – but the campaigner who filed the complaint has slammed the powerlessness of advertising regulators and impunity of Heinz as the word will remain on the packaging.

MEPs vote for 'comprehensive' cloning ban

By Niamh Michail

MEPs voted yesterday to ban imports of food from cloned animals and their descendants - but the European Commission has called the amendments 'disproportionate' and even 'legally impossible'.

Sommer: 'The parliamentary vote mirrors the opinion of European citizens'

Cloning vote splits EC and European Parliament

By Martin Todd

The European Commission (EC) has attacked the European Parliament’s vote today (September 8, 2015) to completely ban use of cloned animals and their descendants for domestic and imported food across the EU.

Moldovan farmers have appealed to the government to look for more lamb markets

Middle Eastern wars hit Moldovan lamb export sales

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Moldovan lamb exports have suffered as a result of armed conflicts in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, according to a report from the association of sheep and goat breeders in the country.

Al Jazeera gets €19m EBRD loan

EBRD invests in Jordanian poultry sector

By Joseph James Whitworth

Al Jazeera Agricultural Company PSC has been given a €19m loan to increase the supply of safer and more hygienic products.

Kuwait fish boycott drives prices down

Kuwait fish boycott drives prices down

By Nathan Gray

Kuwaiti consumers boycotting fish in protest at unprecedentedly high prices have forced market rates down, and drawn support from government officials.

FAO plans water usage database to improve productivity

FAO plans water usage database to improve productivity

By Eliot Beer

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is developing an open-access database to measure water usage in the Middle East and North Africa, to improve water productivity and reduce scarcity issues.

Salalah Mills to be Oman’s biggest with $19m plant

Salalah Mills to be Oman’s biggest with $19m plant

By Eliot Beer

Oman’s Salalah Mills will build a new US$19.5m flour mill to produce 600 tonnes of flour per day by 2017, as agro terminal and dairy plant projects also get underway in the Sultanate.

The EC has pledged to increase the agri-food promotion budget to up to €200m in 2019

Disappointment at lack of EC support for beef

By Rod Addy

Farming group Copa-Cogeca has expressed disappointment at the European Commission’s (EC's) failure to adequately support beef farmers in the €500 million aid package it outlined yesterday (September 7, 2015).

Egypt was the second-largest buyer of Russian wheat last year, behind only Turkey, said Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Egypt bags cheap Russian wheat, signs new silo deals

By Eliot Beer

Egypt will buy more wheat from Russia this year, taking advantage of historically low prices, while it continues with a major grain silo programme to improve domestic storage capacity.

The Q2 2015 Index is based on data from the EU RASFF rapid alert system

Food recalls stable in Q2 - Stericycle

By Joseph James Whitworth

European food recalls and notifications increased slightly in the second quarter of 2015, according to Stericycle ExpertSOLUTIONS.

Rigaku NEX QC+ Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyser

Rigaku application note to measure iron

By Joseph James Whitworth

Applied Rigaku Technologies has produced an application note on the measurement of iron in milk powder by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF).

Moi: All food products containing any cloned animal material should be clearly labelled

Meat trades boss calls for fair cloning vote

By Martin Todd in Brussels

The European Livestock and Meat Trades Union (UECBV) secretary general has warned Ministers of the European Parliament (MEPs) voting tomorrow night (September 8) on cloning against discriminating between the meat and dairy industries.

The impact of plummeting pork prices will be discussed

EU ministers urged to help pork farmers

By Chloe Ryan

Pork and dairy farmers must be helped by the EU to gain access to new international markets if the fall in prices affecting European farmers is to be stemmed. 

Russia looks set not to renew meat imports from the EU and US

Russia proposes endless ban on US, EU meat imports

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Russia plans to exclude the US and EU from countries supplying its meat, following a draft decree published on the website of the country’s Ministry of Economic Development.

XR75 inspection system

Contaminant detection challenges tackled by Anritsu

By Joseph James Whitworth

Food companies are facing an increasingly stringent regulatory environment and headline-making product recalls, according to a manufacturer of detection and inspection equipment.

Quorn Foods is remaining quiet on reports of two takeover bids

Quorn quiet on reports of takeover bid

By Michael Stones

Quorn Foods is remaining quiet on reports that acquisition firm Nomad Foods and chip giant McCain Foods are preparing takeover bids for the meat-free food manufacturer, as it revealed a 50% boost in production capacity to meet surging export demand.

A Weakening of the Euro has hit ABF's operating profit

ABF profit hit by £30M by weakened euro

By Laurence Gibbons

Associated British Foods (ABF) has revealed its adjusted operating profit will fall for the 52 weeks to September 12, by at least £30M, due to a significant weakening of the euro.

Frutarom acquires 79% of Nutrafur

By Niamh Michail

Frutarom has acquired 79% of Spanish firm Nutrafur in a €10.3 m sale which will help the company develop its portfolio of natural plant extracts for food preservation, says Frutarom.

New conveyer belt to target Russian food processors

ScanBelt launches new conveyor at AgroProdMash

By Chloe Ryan

A new conveyor for food processors aimed at the Russian market and developed in collaboration with hygiene specialists is to be launched by ScanBelt at the AgroProdMash 2015 show.

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