Suppliers to China benefit from double digit growth
European food ingredients companies working in the rapidly emerging Chinese food market can look forward to getting a slice of the €135 billion trade exchange between the two blocs.
Archives for March 17, 2004
Codex enters the GM labelling debate
As increasing numbers of national governments worldwide toy with new legal frameworks for genetically modified foodstuffs, the global food labelling body Codex Alimentarius will table the issue at an upcoming meeting in Montreal.
World vanilla crops hit by cyclone
The key ingredient in the most popular ice cream in the world faces a rise in price, already at a 10 year high, as the worst cyclone in two decades hits Madagascar, the leading producer of vanilla.
Green tea extract for sweet dreams
The health benefits of green tea dovetail into sleep as researchers in Japan find an amino acid located in green tea could improve slumber in young men.
RSSL shows industry HOW
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) is launching a programme to help food manufacturers address issues such as obesity, nutrition and food safety. Entitled HOW - health, obesity and well-being - the programme offers consultancy, development and...
Dioxin levels fall in infant formula
Comforting news for parents as survey of infant formula by the UK's food watchdog finds levels of harmful chemicals, dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in infant formula have fallen significantly over the past five years and are...
Growing fears over soy disease
Fearing the invasion of the devasting soybean rust, the American Soybean Association (ASA) has repeated its call for a temporary ban on South American soybean imports, despite assurances from the Bush administration that trade would not be the cause...