News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Symrise has opened a new €3m ($3.83m) vanilla extraction facility in Benavony, Madagascar - the latest milestone in its strategy to “establish the entire value chain for vanilla in its source country”.
Arla Foods Ingredients is conducting fieldwork and calling for cross-industry support as it presses for dairy ingredients to be made an integral part of emergency food programmes.
It will be a disappointing year for the EU pork industry, according to the latest quarterly report from Rabobank.
‘Packers & processors must renew their FDA registrations between October 1 and December 31, 2014.
Big companies fail to address the challenges the food industry is facing, according to Food Tank director Danielle Nierenberg.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) in Ireland has launched a Beef Pricewatch app.
A new study into European ready meals found that pack contents and therefore nutritional value varies widely between batches of the same meal.
University of California researchers have warned that regular sugar-sweetened soda drinking could increase the risk of disease development and accelerate cellular aging.
With high-level conference Wine Vision fast approaching our sister publication Harpers Wine & Spirit is offering a Rising Star Grant to help rising industry stars attend the event.
175 chemicals with known hazardous properties are legally used in the production of food packaging, according to a study by the Food Packaging Forum (FPF).
The continuing recovery of Danone’s infant formula business, impacted by the 2013 Fonterra whey protein concentrate (WPC) botulism scare, has “buoyed” the French dairy's Q3 results.
Indonesia
Indonesia continues its fight against the foreign domination of its plantation industry and, in particular, crude palm oil (CPO).
Director general of the European Commission’s Health and Consumers unit (DG SANCO), Paola Testori Coggi, has resigned following an investigation into a breach of tender policy.
Healthy eating campaigners have slammed Nestlé, Kellogg and other food firms for including varying amounts of salt in the same products depending on where they are sold.
Mettler-Toledo Garvens has introduced a checkweigher so food manufacturers can achieve higher throughput rates and future-proof production lines.
Protective gloves are not enough to prevent the transmission of Norovirus, according to the Finnish Food and Safety Authority (Evira).
The number of hungry people in the world fell by more than 100 million over the last decade – so is this World Food Day a time to rejoice?
The Romanian government has decided to halt exports of live cattle and sheep to the EU following the outbreak of bluetongue disease in a number of the country’s counties.