Animal welfare organisations have asked the European Commission to suspend livestock trade between the EU and Turkey until transport conditions are improved.
Symrise has developed a new range of beef flavours intended to help food manufacturers bring authentic gourmet tastes into consumers’ homes, through a collaboration between chefs, flavourists, researchers and marketers.
Independent UK supplier Treatt has launched several new top-note flavour ingredients including a roasted meat odour, a nutty flavour and a tropical flavour.
The largest meat recall in US history has reignited fears that the
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not taking adequate measures
to ensure the safety of the nation's meat supply.
By Kent D. Messer, Harry H. Kaiser, Collin Payne and Brian Wansink
Advertising could play an important role in reducing consumer fears
when a product is linked to food safety concerns, write a team of
economists and psychologists at Cornell University.
China has lifted a three-year ban on imports of selected cuts of US
beef that has been in place since the first case of mad cow disease
was detected in the nation.
British food manufacturer Canterbury Foods today announced the sale
of three factories as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) steps in to take
control of the ailing business.
DNA testing is to be used to ensure the quality of Angus branded
beef, after generations of cross breeding has resulted in reduced
Angus breed percentages in many of the cattle that currently
qualify for the breeding programs under...
Canadian frustration over the failure to reopen the US border to
Canadian beef imports has fuelled demands to accelerate the
expansion of its own meat processing capacity, writes Anthony
Fletcher.
Scientists in the US and Spain are trying to determine the factors
behind public perceptions of meat quality, in order to better plan
future business strategies and establish consistent labelling.
Between eight and 50 per cent of US retail beef carrying a label
with the name 'Angus' does not meet the USDA criteria for Angus
branding, according to a recent DNA test.
Improving the quality and texture of beef for consumer tastebuds
could lift sales for a US beef industry knocked lately by the BSE
scare. In a recent link up, US agri-giant Cargill and life science
firm MetaMorphix have completed...
European beef consumption - hit badly by the BSE and foot and mouth
scares - is increasing once again, and industry professionals
meeting this week in Dublin are being urged to try a new tack in
order to further promote sales - promoting...
Japan may be about to review its policy of testing all slaughtered
cattle for mad cow disease, a practice Tokyo has asked Washington
to adopt as a condition for resuming US beef imports. This is
encouraging news for US meat processors,...
A US delegation, which is in Japan this week to convince the
country to open the gates to US beef imports, may have its plans
scuppered as the Japanese farm ministry says it is very wary of
more BSE cases in the US.
Two more cattle herds in Washington State, US were quarantined over
the weekend as the number of animals linked to a cow infected with
mad cow disease increased.
US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman has announced a series of
e-Government initiatives in response to public fears over beef. In
a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care
Poll, over one in five American adults...
Market Advice has carried out an in-depth analysis of the Moscow
sausage market. The organisation interviewed the sales and
marketing departments of the top 20 largest traders of sausages
& related products in the region.
The UK's National Beef Association (NBA) has demanded that the Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland (MLC) act to reverse low cattle prices affecting farmers in the province.
The European Commission has decided to lift the last remaining restrictions imposed on meat imports from Swaziland and Botswana. The ban was imposed following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
The Japanese cabinet endorsed a set of bills on Friday to ensure
the safety of food and protect consumer health in the wake of a
series of scandals and incidents to hit Japan in recent years.
Four senior officials from French fast food chain Buffalo Grill,
including chief executive Christian Picart, have been accused of
manslaughter and fraud amid allegations that the company illegally
imported British beef infected with...
Five former officials at the now-defunct Japanese company Snow
Brand Foods conspired to falsely label imported beef products as
domestic beef and swindled an industry body out of millions of yen
in a government buyback scheme, so...
Japan's Nippon Meat Packers is considering spinning off its meat
operations, after a devastating beef mislabelling scandal sent
consumer confidence plunging.
Overcapacity has hit the British organic meat sector with
significant volumes of organic lamb and organic beef set to be sold
as conventional meat products this year, according to UK market
researchers Organic Monitor.
Meat from Polish, Zimbabwean and South African cattle over 30
months old may pose a slightly higher BSE risk than other imported
beef says a British watchdog.
Japanese meat processor Snow Brand Food has announced plans to
liquidate its operations by late April as sales continue to plunge
following recent labelling scandals.
Snow Brand Food Co Ltd said on Wednesday it falsely claimed 13.8
tonnes of Australian beef was Japanese when it made a 280-tonne
sale to a government-subsidised industry group.
Japan's Prima Meat Packers Ltd said on Tuesday it would slash its
workforce by about 30 per cent by March 2005 to help it weather
damage from price falls and the outbreak of mad cow disease in
Japan.
Flavour company Quest International introduced globally its new
range of 25 High Impact Taste (HIT) flavours Ingredients or `Hifi
aromatics' for short.
Japan's Health Ministry said on Tuesday that it planned to inspect
all cattle due to be processed into food, tightening up its checks
for mad cow disease which currently only cover cows aged 30 months
or more.
US food giant Sara Lee Corp. on Thursday said it is voluntarily
recalling about 13,600 pounds of Sara Lee and Quality Packing
sliced, packaged lunch meats because the products may contain the
Salmonella bacteria.
A new report has found the incidence of mad cow disease in France
is moreprevalent than previously thought. France's Food Safety
Board said in apreliminary...
