Parx Plastics and Erze Ambalaj partner on antimicrobial packaging
Erze Ambalaj has incorporated Parx Plastics’ antimicrobial technology into its expanding foam packaging.
Archives for November 27, 2015
Russia bans Turkey's poultry over downed plane
Russia’s veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has stopped the import of several batches of poultry meat from Turkey, weighing a total of 162 tonnes (t), claiming that the products were found to contain listeria.
Taiwan-China
Trans-Strait fears quashed, though talks stall over agriculture
Speeding up the customs clearance process for trade between Taiwan and China would not compromise the island’s stringent food safety requirements, though it would succeed in making Taiwanese exports more competitive, the Ministry of Economic Affairs...
Maple Leaf Foods cuts 400 jobs
Canadian food processor Maple Leaf Foods has announced it will cut 400 jobs, with most of those to come into effect before Christmas.
Yuengling’s Ice Cream launches Cinnamon Churro and other new flavors for 2016
With the aim of attracting a new generation of ice cream fans, Yuengling’s Ice Cream will launch Cinnamon Churro and three other new flavors in 2016.
Denmark close to lucrative Chinese pork deal
Danish heat-treated pork product exporters say they are tantalisingly close to selling into China, seven years after Bejing greenlighted these exports in principle.
This paves the way for mass personalised nutrition, say researchers
What’s better for blood glucose levels, sushi or ice cream? It depends who you are, say researchers
Blood glucose levels vary widely across individuals even for the same food, say researchers who have developed an algorithm to calculate the ‘right’ diet – paving the way for mass personalised nutrition and casting doubt over the usefulness of universal...
Tetra Pak & DeLaval to raise the number of dairy cows in China from 45% to 60% by 2020
Tetra Pak and its sister company DeLaval, part of Tetra Laval Group, have signed a five-year agreement with the Dairy Association of China to train 150 Chinese dairy farm managers over the next five years to run large-scale dairy farms.
Korea’s new love for cheese makes up for world’s highest milk prices
Now one of Asia’s fastest-growing markets, South Korea offers greater export opportunities for countries like New Zealand as tariffs are cut through free-trade agreements, according to an American market report.
UBM says security and comfort of attendees is ‘paramount’; registrations up 6%
32 firms pull out of FiE in wake of Paris attacks
Around 32 of 1400 exhibiting companies (3%) have pulled out of the industry event Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) next week in Paris following the city’s fatal attacks, despite efforts from the organiser to up security.
Cocoa ‘a sad story’: Farmers need insurance as human cost of industry overlooked, says Cacao for Change
Cocoa farmers operate in a chocolate supply chain that perpetuates poverty and bear the bulk of the risk, claims Cacao for Change as it proposes an alternative model.
Chinese market open for UK organic dairy imports
A British organic dairy cooperative has broken into the one of the world’s most lucrative markets after being awarded the UK’s first licence through the Soil Association to export organic products to China.
Far East digest
Japanese firm finds way to turn textiles into noodles
Japanese textile company Omikenshi will move into the health-food business and plans to use its its cloth-making technology to turn trees into noodles.