Children should be strongly encouraged to regularly include
calcium-rich foods and drinks in their diets, report US
researchers, after a new study confirms the negative association
between the mineral and body fat.
Researchers in the US have designed a new potato for the crisps
industry with a 'favourable' starch to sugar ratio to beat the
burnt flavour when frying.
This year has been one the most hectic in recent times for the
British supermarket sector, what with the year-long Safeway
takeover battle, Tesco and Co-op strengthening their positions in
the convenience store sector, Somerfield...
Tesco, the UK's
biggest supermarket group with 13 million customers, is to
introduce degradable carrier bags in all of its stores from next
year, the first UK retail group to take such a move.
Children should be strongly encouraged to regularly include
calcium-rich foods and drinks in their diets, report US
researchers, after a new study confirms the negative association
between the mineral and body fat. Increasing calcium...
Bernard Matthews, a leading producer of fresh, chilled and frozen
turkey products, is to install cutting edge maintenance and
management software at all six of its facilities in the UK. The
company has signed an agreement with technology...
Infant formula to alpha-cyclodextrin via enzyme processing are all
on the table as the nascent food authority in Oceania calls for
comments on its food standards code.
US agri-giant Cargill is set to expand its gum manufacturing
capabilities in China. Working with its joint venture partner
Shandong Huanghelong Group, the company has announced a significant
capacity increase at its Zibo production...
China's soybean shopping team left for the US this week. Top of the
list? Contracts in the range of 1.5 million tonnes of soybeans,
predicts the Chinese government.
Following a year of investments in its production facility, leading
Hungarian pasta producer Soos Tesztagyarto, based in Vecses, near
Budapest, has said that it is now gearing up to increase its yearly
production to meet demand from...
Alongside the growing wealth of the average CEE consumer, the
region's food retail sector is growing at an unprecedented rate, a
recently published report finds. Fuelling that growth is the boom
in large-scale supermarket and...
Cencosud, the Chilean supermarket group, has ended its exclusive
talks with Dutch retailer Ahold over the acquisition of the
latter's Argentinian unit, Disco, after failing to reach an
agreement.
Carrefour, the biggest European retail group and the world's second
largest supermarket operator, is to begin a major overhaul of its
supply chain IT systems with its Asian operations.
Estonian state-owned cooking oil manufacturer Werol Tehased has
announced plans to launch a pilot project for the production
protein derived from rape seed oil. The company is also mulling
over a number of other projects, including...
Set against the backdrop of difficult trading conditions for
branded food manufacturers, raw material prices and a negative
currency impact played down first half figures for ingredients
giant Danisco.
Researchers working in Canada have discovered that an optimal UV
irradiation system can be developed for individual food products,
taking into account the UV transmittance of each product. These
findings, published in the Journal...
They say technology never stays still. As if to prove this adage,
Vivid Learning Systems, a provider of web and intranet-based
compliance and regulatory training programmes, has just announced
its purchase of the website Foodsafety.com...
Nearly a year after it was first announced, the takeover of Safeway
is now in its final phase following yesterday’s £3 billion updated
offer for the chain by Morrisons. But what effect will the takeover
have on the British retail...
Demand for functional ingredients in Europe is far from slackening
with European buyers set to reach 5 million by 2007. Ingredients
companies, such as J. Rettenmaier & Sons (JRS), are aiming to
keep pace with the demand, focusing...
'Extremely disappointing' is how New Zealand's agriculture minister
Jim Sutton yesterday described new European Union restrictions on
New Zealand butter imports.
Soft drinks are set to become the biggest beverage sector in the
world, overtaking hot drinks, with consumption rising by around 5
per cent a year, according to a new report from Zenith
International. But while the US remains the...
BOC, a developer of engineered solutions for the food processing
industry, has acquired the food safety product portfolio of RGF
Environmental Group. Those assets include a full line of food
safety equipment and ozone and ultra-violet...
ADM Natural Health and Nutrition has expanded its range of soya
isoflavone concentrates for use in food and food supplements.
Novasoy 700 has a minimum 70 per cent isoflavone content and
Novasoy 200 is a 20 per cent isoflavone concentrate.
The issue of food labelling, which has been a hot topic of late,
has arrived in the ice cold waters of Norway. In the near future,
salmon raised in certain conditions will be able to bear the label
'This is a free range salmon...
Functional food makers present in the UK market will reap the
rewards of consumers who are among the biggest spenders on
functional foods and drinks in Europe.
Following two years of political wranglings Europe's first food
safety agency finally has a permanent home in the city of Parma,
after Italy successfully fought off a strong bid from Helsinki. The
imminent challenge for the food...
Swiss healthcare firm Novartis said today it is to buy US-based
Mead Johnson's adult medical nutrition business for $385 million
(€312m) in cash, giving it a strong presence in the US retail
market.
When a certain Dom Perignon formulated the first champagne, or so
legend goes, bubbles were key to the drink's appeal. Hundreds of
years later scientists are still working on the bubbles.
Retailers and manufacturers working in Australia have five days to
go before meeting the new rules on food labels, warned the Food
Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today.
The Slovakian Ministry of Agriculture has announced a project to
team up with the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality in an effort to help meet food safety and consumer
protection standards laid down by the European...
Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi will soon hand over the reins of
the European Presidency to Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern.
Food safety should remain high on the agenda, and who know's maybe
a decision on the location...
With the recent acquisition of BRL Hardy, Constellation Brands has
become the world's largest wine producer, but faces a challenge to
maintain its leading share of the market intensifies from with
increased competition from US...
New research to come out of the university of Utah in the US
suggests new ways of regulating the behaviours that allow us to
smell food, learn, and remember.
Central European Distribution Corporation has reduced its outlook
for the coming financial year because of a charge for the
re-evaluation of a deferred tax asset.
Carlsberg Breweries has again increased its shareholding in
thePolish brewer Carlsberg Okocim through the acquisition of a
further 6 per cent of its share capital.
Japanese seasonings company Ajinomoto moves deeper into the export
market for the food flavour enhancers - nucleotide seasonings -
unveiling a 6 billion yen factory in Thailand last week.
Set to fuel the debate on GM foods, a market experiment conducted
in 2000 in Canada found that consumers preferred sweetcorn which
had been engineered to be pest resistant over the conventional
sweet corn variety.
Spain's food companies are broadly happy with the support they
receive for marketing their products on export markets, but most
would still like to see more financial backing and a greater degree
of co-ordination from the various...
A fenugreek extract made by Dutch ingredients company Acatris has
been shown to reduce blood sugar levels in both non-diabetic and
type-II diabetic subjects, reported the company today.
Following its failure to attract investment from French food giant
Danone, Russian dairy and juice producer Wimm-Bill-Dann has had its
Standard & Poor's rating downgraded from stable to negative.
S&P said it had made...
International food processor Cargill is set to construct a $50
million malt plant in Tula Oblast, Russia. Company spokeswoman
Irina Kalygina told the Russian Vedomosti newspaper that the
corporation is looking into the possibility...
Czech brewers, backed by the Czech Association of Small Independent
Breweries (CSMNP), are readying to increase their presence in the
significant Polish beer market. The move is the first big drive on
to the market in 10 years and...
The economic transformation of Russia and the CEE region is still
being led by the retail sector, according to a market report. For
the food retail sector, growth has been driven by the emergence of
big supermarket and hypermarket...
Leading Japanese emulsifier supplier Riken Vitamin is set to boost
production at its subsidiary in Malaysia with the opening of a new
plant this week. High hopes to increase market share.
Speaking in Brussels earlier this week, European Commissioner for
Health and Consumer Protection David Byrne announced the latest
development on issues relating to food safety within an enlarged
EU.
The saga of an illegal red dye saga in the UK continues this week
with the country's food agency boasting the powers of its
'detective work' in thwarting imports of the illegal spice.
Tough new rules on food imports into the US came into force today,
but with thousands of foreign and domestic companies yet to
register with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the
policy-makers have given some breathing space.
Finland's leading confectionery company, Leaf, has said that it is
to build a factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the production of
functional pastilles and lollipops.
