News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The UK Food Standards Agency has reported the Yo! Sushi will be the restaurants to use its traffic light scheme - intended for food manufacturers - on menus, indicating progress in raising awareness for the healthier eating message.
Cognis Nutrition and Health is combining three of its ingredients in a novel way to target the European skin care market with, initially, functional beverages.
Friesland Foods has formed a new research and development division for encapsulated products that can serve processor demand for new methods of delivering typically unstable functional ingredients.
The CIAA has highlighted several important areas of debate and strategic consideration for food manufacturers, which it is planning to address at its annual conference in November.
Applied Biosystems is to start supplying its pathogen testing kits directly to the food processors and testing laboratories, a move the company says is part of its commitment to ensuring food safety.
Solae has announced price increases for a broad range of its soy lecithin products from April 1 - just days after warning of the need for ingredients firms to pass on higher input costs.
Dairy company Campina said it will increase investments into products geared towards the growing health and wellbeing trend on the back of significant success of its low fat products in 2007.
DSM has launched a new resveratrol product, which it claims plugs a market need for a high potency ingredient supported by an extensive safety package.