Four European research centres have launched a joint project to scope out global food trends and stimulate open innovation within the global food industry.
Nippon Suisan Kaisha has become the first Japanese food company to
set up R&D operations in The Netherlands' Food Valley to cater
to the European consumer - and others are expected to follow suit.
Further compounding the problems a long-grain rice ban in Japan
will have on US producers is the threat that bans could eventually
be implemented in the EU.
Despite some important concessions, Japan remains unlikely to open
up to the full rigours of the global free market just yet, to the
frustration of western commodity firms.
New, and unusual, opportunities in biotech foods, as Japanese food
scientists claim eating genetically modified soybeans could promote
hair growth and prevent hair loss.
Europe and the US continue to dominate demand in the €4.5 billion
flavours market, but Asia Pacific region is quickly catching up
thanks to high single-digit growth, reveal figures from a new
report.
Skimmed milk is the source of a new calcium-rich miso to hit the
market as Japan's Agriculture and Livestock Industries Corporation
(ALIC) teams up with two research bodies to develop a new
functional fermented miso derived from...
People who eat a regular diet of highly salted food double their
risk of stomach cancer, according to a report published this week
in the British Journal of Cancer.
eMerge Interactive unveiled its VerifEYE Solo Handheld
Meat-Inspection Device at yesterday's Tokyo's 2003 International
Food Machinery & Technology Exhibition (FOOMA).
Functional drinks are growing in popularity across the world, but
the products which sell best in Japan are not necessarily the same
as those which do well in Europe or the US, meaning that there is
plenty of room for growth in all...
Metro, the German retailer, this month opened its first Cash &
Carry outlet in Japan, a market where it sees great potential in
the years to come. The store is a joint venture with Japan's
Marubeni Corp.
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...
Japanese seasoning maker Ajinomoto lifts targets for pharmaceutical
division with the aquisition of Shimizu Pharmaceutical, an unlisted
drugmaker based in central Japan.
Australian company Bonlac Foods is to enter into a joint venture
with Japanese firm Imanaka to manufacture chocolate and sugar
blended products at Dandenong, reports IndustrySearch.com.
Embattled Japanese meat processor Nippon Meat Packers said on
Tuesday that its founder and chairman would step down and its
president would be demoted to help restore public trust after a
beef mislabelling scandal.
In the latest scandal to hit Japan's food industry, supermarket
operator Tokyu Store Chain said on Tuesday that it had been
involved in selling beef intentionally mislabelled as a more
expensive variety.
In a bid to improve customer services in the Japan and Korea, DSM
Food Specialities has expanded its activities in the two countries
with new offices for its Savoury Ingredients and Nutritional
Ingredients business units.
Japanese food companies are moving to stop importing a range of
vegetables from China after findings showed that some Chinese-grown
spinach contained excessive agricultural chemicals, a Japanese
newspaper reported.
New stricter Japanese regulations for organic food production have
had a major impact on market revenues, claims new research from
market analysts Organic Monitor.
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.
Japan's Agriculture Ministry on Friday began checking all frozen
beef stored under a government buy-back programme for false labels,
following revelations Snow Brand Food Co Ltd had improperly
labelled its meat products, Reuters...
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.
Japanese investigators searching on Sunday for the cause of an
outbreak of mad cow disease zeroed in on a milk substitute which
may have been fed to all the animals involved.
Japan's first outbreak of mad cow disease is rippling through the
world's second biggest economy, depressing sales of beef, putting
farmers on alert and shaking the food industry.
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.
The "World O-Cha Festival 2001" will be held in Shizuoka City of
Shizuoka Prefecture, the centre of o-cha (Japanese green tea)
production in Japan, from October 5 to 10.
Australia confirmed the suspension of importation of Japanese beef
and beef products following the formal confirmation of a case of
BSE in a Japanese dairy cow.
The Japanese government made a huge blunder in ignoring a European
Union report warning of a mad cow disease outbreak in Japan, the
Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries minister admitted.
On September 12, Japan's farm ministry began checking feed plants
and asked local authorities for a nationwide inspection in an
attempt to ease public concern over Asia's first suspected case of
"mad cow" disease.
Brand battered Japanese Snow Brand Milk Products Co. is join up
with Swiss food giant Nestle in a bid to strengthen its knocked
business. The image of...
The Health and Welfare Ministry in Japan confirmed on Wednesday
that U.S.-grown genetically modified corn banned for consumption in
Japan has been mixed...
French supermarket giant Carrefour unveiled this week its first
hypermarket inJapan, the South China Morning Post reports. The
company plans to open...
A glass of wine or Japanese sake rice wine may help brain function
for the over 40's, a new study carried out in Japan suggests. In a
four-year study...