News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The six bidders for UK supermarket group Safeway have now become five with the withdrawal yesterday of the US investment group KKR. The remaining candidates, all of them retail specialists, now await a decision from the regulators as to whether their...
A new system designed to use companies' own employees as soldiers in the frontline in the war on bioterrorism has been created by two US consultancies.
Mexican company Pigmentos Vegetales del Centro (Piveg) was recently granted a temporary stay of injunction - the initial phase of a patent infringement suit initiated by lutein supplier Kemin Foods and the Catholic University of America - after...
Denmark's food and drink manufacturing companies are expected to be the star performers in that country's economy this year, with growth of between 6-10 per cent. The growth will come from new product launches and international expansion.
Women who eat more eggs as teenagers may be less likely to develop breast cancer later on, say researchers at Harvard University. They also found that butter tended to raise the risk of the disease while people who use vegetable oil instead reduce the...
More heart healthy food products could be hitting the shelves soon following the claim from US healthy ingredients company Cargill Health & Food Technologies that it has helped trigger a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action that will expand...