News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical and healthcare group, is to relaunch its Plenty juice drink brand just six months after it was withdrawn from sale. But has the company got the product positioning right this time, asks market analysts Datamonitor.
The European Commission believes that the results of the Electronic Identification of Animals (Idea) project, presented yesterday, confirm the feasibility of electronically tagging cattle, sheep and goats.
Four business units of the Dutch group Royal Schouten have merged to form a new company called Acatris.
The pursuit of genome sequencing continues with the news this week that scientists from seven nations have revealed the genome sequence of the bread mould Neurospora crassa.
Netherlands-based Royal Schouten Group has merged four of its food and health ingredients companies to form Acatris. The merger involves Daminco, Orffa Health & Nutrition, Schouten USA and SoyLife Nederland.
Adding to a growing body of evidence that suggests environmental pollution may have an impact on the proportion of male births around the world, a new study from the US states that women exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls may be less likely to give...
Dairy group Arla Foods, in the news for the second time this week, in partnership with German sugar manufacturer Nordzucker, has started production of Gaio tagatose in a custom-built plant located near Hannover, Germany