Clariant installs antimicrobial agent to achieve product safety
Clariant Masterbatches Division is installing Milliken AlphaSan antimicrobial agent in its masterbatch operations in order to achieve complete product safety.
Archives for December 20, 2004
Food additives and GM foods to change status in Australian food code?
Australia and New Zealand consider changes to their food code, inviting stakeholders to pass comment on a raft of propositions from food additive approvals to labelling requirements.
RFI acquisition lifts Danisco 1H
The bolt-on acquisition of Rhodia Food Ingredients earlier this year helps boost sales for Danish ingredients and sugar group Danisco in an otherwise challenging 2004/05 first half.
'Polymeal' just as good as pills for longer life
Consumers should forget about taking medication to help them stay healthy longer and change their diet instead, suggest scientists writing in this week's British Medical Journal.
BFG agrees to Baugur bid
Big Food Group, the British company behind the Iceland retail and Booker wholesale chains, has confirmed that it has accepted a takeover from Baugur, the Icelandic investment group which already owns a number of British retail groups. But the deal...
New food security solution to beat terrorist threat
US secretary of health and human services said this month that he was surprised that terrorists had not yet targeted the food supply. Anthony Fletcher reports on a new product designed to ensure that this never happens.
Dimaco develops automated packaging verifier
Dimaco has developed a system that ensures correct packaging labels havebeen applied and that over-printed data such as pricing, weight information and country of origin are legible.
S&N combines Indian brewing business with UB
Britain's biggest brewer Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) is to combine its Indian brewing assets with those of United Breweries, the largest beer maker on the sub-continent, to form a group accounting for more than 50 per cent of all Indian beer sales....
Litexco invests in potential of Romanian wine
Spanish investment company Litexco plans to buy about 1,000hectares of land and invest millions in Romanian vineyards, Bogdan Tudorache.
CSM sheds confectionery unit
Major Dutch bakery ingredients firm CSM confirms the sale of its confectionery unit to focus on core business. The Diemen/Breda-based company said it expects to complete the sale of the unit to CVC Capital Partners in the first quarter of 2005.
Dispersed raw material sources cushion CNI gum arabic supplies
Widespread procurement and more than 100 years in business help French hydrocolloid producer Colloides Naturels International (CNI) assure supplies for gum arabic amid global shortfalls in stock, writes Lindsey Partos.
Russia warns of violations within food supplement sector
The exaggerated - and not always correct - advertisement of biologically active additives (BAAs) in food supplements has resulted in a number of products being removed by the Russian authorities, writes Angela Drujinina.