News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
13% in some countries compared to 43% in SE Asia
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says rising obesity rates among mothers and ready availability and attractiveness of formula has left Europe with the world’s lowest breastfeeding rates.
Facing limited financial resources and rigid market conditions food market players got together to address quality management systems and food safety at a two day event in Russia.
Calls from the French National Federation of Dairy Cooperatives (FNCL) to stop imports of foreign dairy products are contrary to EU single market principles, Dutch groups have complained to the European Commission.
Saturated fats are not associated with an increased risk of death, heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes, says a new study published in the BMJ.
The Swedish Food Authority (NFA) will look at what 3,000 children eat and drink over two days as part of a study into the diets of the country's youth.
Around 80% of the 22 million tonnes of food wasted in the European Union is ‘avoidable’, according to new research that puts the UK bottom of the food waste league.
ReposiTrak’s compliance management and track and trace technology has hit the 3,000 supplier connections mark driven by the need to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Russian agricultural holding Miratorg may abandon its major pig project in Kursk Oblast.
Latte art – the designs sprinkled on the froth of a milky coffee by baristas – influences people’s perceptions of the beverage and can even make them willing to pay 11 to 13% more.
Editorial
Reactionary and radical moves by politicians and administrators who like to ride roughshod over common sense are unexceptional occurrences in India.
FMC Corporation has announced a restructuring of its pectin business in a deal with Cargill. This comes in the wake of disappointing overall earnings in the second quarter of 2015 and nutrition segment revenues that were impacted by continued slow demand...
Virulence gene profile and patients’ age are major determinants of haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) development, according to a study in Norway.