Snack market set for billion dollar growth
The global snack market will be worth almost $300bn (€197.8bn) by 2010, as manufacturers move towards healthier products as well as developing markets, a new report predicts.
Archives for March 5, 2008
Wolff re-focuses on added-value hydrocolloids
Hydrocolloids producer and distributor Alfred L Wolff is to sell off part of its business to concentrate on its key functional products, gum arabic and agar-agar.
EDA not supporting UK farmers' 'fair trade' calls
Calls by a UK-based dairy cooperative for the implementation of a "fair trade" style price system for the country's milk farmers to avoid a potential supply crisis, have not been backed by the European Dairy Association (EDA).
California bill to curb chemicals in grease-proof packaging
A bill that would ban the use of food packaging containing perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), is working its way through the California legislature.
Polyphenols may be the key to low acrylamide bakery
Manufacturers of bakery products looking to reduce levels of acrylamide can tap into a range of solutions, but polyphenols may be the most promising, suggests a new review.
Unilever invests in emulsions R&D
Unilever has invested around €3m in its R&D capabilities for structured emulsions to allow it to tap the healthy foods trend and reduce reliance on commodity ingredients.
Religious investors call for boycott of GM sugar
A coalition of ethical stock market investors have called on 63 US food, beverage and restaurant companies to stop using genetically modified (GM) sugar beet.
Chr Hansen divests flavor activities
Denmark's Chr. Hansen is to sell of its US-based flavor activities to Germany's Symrise group in order to focus more on its higher added-value operations.