News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Food and drink products have often been at the heart of trade disputes between countries, but in recent years they have become not the reason for these disputes but rather weapons wielded by politicians. The US call for a boycott on French goods is an...
The Supermarket Code of Practice, introduced a year ago to protect suppliers from 'unfair practices' by the major UK supermarekt groups, has had little or no effect, claims Friends of the Earth. More than half of the UK's farmers do not even know it...
Nutritional ingredients business Cognis continues to concentrate on core activities with the announcement this week that it has sold its Fragrances & Specialties business (Cognis F&S) to Japanese speciality chemicals business Kao Chemicals.
Food safety and food security will be the focus of the 5th annual Food Safety Summit, to be held at the Washington DC Convention Center 18-20 March 2003.
Will we shortly be able to pluck an oat juice from the supermarket shelf? The answer is, yes perhaps, as evidence continues of the benefits of soluble dietary fibre.
Not for the first time, research reveals that Scotland must urgently tackle the national diet as figures show Scots continuing to die earlier and suffer higher levels of serious disease than most of their European counterparts.
Israeli enzyme company Enzymotec has gained a US patent for a new technology - AMIET - that allows enzymes to react in non-aqueous media.
Food and health ingredients company Acatris will use this year's Vitafoods exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland as a platform to tackle men's issues with the launch of its new product, LinumLife.
Confirming reports from the European Commission yesterday that the European consumer is sceptical about food-related biotechnologies, are the findings of a joint UK-US study into GE biscuits. Researchers found European shoppers to be cynical, more...