News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Scientists from Manchester University have developed a new technique that uses infrared light to spot bacterial contamination in food within seconds rather than hours, while products are on the processing line.
The UK's Food Standards Agency has widened the investigation into the outbreak of E. coli food poisoning illness in Wales as parents start calling for a public inquiry.
Weekly comment
There is nothing so redolent of a corporate mid-life crisis as the strategic equivalent of a new car, new girl and new image, set firmly on the shoulders of the same old idea. McDonald's, it seems, is firmly in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern has called for the food industry to support the CAP, at a time when the system is coming under intense criticism.
Corn with twice as much protein and oil and about half as much carbohydrate content could be just round the corner.