News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture has this week presented its second annual food industry awards, recognising the achievements of companies in the fields of export, innovation, technology, the environment and rural development.
International BioChemical Industries has said that it has moved into the second round of testing in a cooperative effort with a global food and beverage company after initial testing for its antimicrobial agents proved effective.
Finlandia, the Finnish vodka produced by Altia, is already the world's third-largest premium imported vodka brand, but it is set to improve its position even further following the transfer of the brand's marketing to Brown-Forman, the group behind...
Key Technology, the US-based food equipment provider, has launched the new Farmco Precision Size Grader for high-efficiency, accurate sizing.
Anglo-Dutch group Unilever has sold its US-based distributor Iberia Foods to the Brooklyn Bottling Group for an undisclosed sum. The unit distributes and markets a wide of Unilever and other branded products to the Hispanic American community.
US agri-giant Cargill, the new owner of French starch company Cerestar, made further steps to increasing its texturiser business when the company announced this week its intention to form a 50/50 joint venture with Chinese company Shandong Huanghelong...
More research to suggest that chocolate could be of benefit arrived this week with scientists in the US suggesting that dietary flavonols found in certain chocolates and cocoa could improve blood vessel function.
Five former officials at the now-defunct Japanese company Snow Brand Foods conspired to falsely label imported beef products as domestic beef and swindled an industry body out of millions of yen in a government buyback scheme, so a Japanese court...
Christmas in the UK is a time of tradition - turkey, mince pies, carol singing... and huge amounts of over-spending. The latest report from market analysts Mintel reveals that Britons are likely to continue this last tradition this year, with consumer...
A report from the US-based Institute of Food Technologists highlights a series of methods to control food bacteria using antimicrobial food preservatives and sanitisers.