PT Unilever Indonesia plans to invest an estimated $500 million
(€512m) in the next 10 years in Indonesia, an official with its
parent company said Wednesday, Dow Jones reports.
Australian yeast and natural ingredients company Burns Philp this
week reported a healthy 65 per cent jump in net profit to A$146.2
million (€80m) for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2002, despite a
drop of 2.1 per cent in sales to...
Laurens Patisseries, a leading US cakes and pastries manufacturer
has installed a Package Coding Management System from Claricom to
allow centralised network control of on-pack coding to increase
efficiency and eliminate the risk...
Brand names have a unique impact on our brains and engage the
"emotional", right-hand side of the brain more than other words,
new experiments suggest. They are even more easily recognised when
they are used in capital letters,...
Concerns in the US about the potential for future genetically
engineered foods to cause allergic reactions has spurred the Food
and Drug Administration to hold a meeting to look into the best
methods for determining whether these...
A Quorn Foods official has defended his company's meat-free foods,
following an attack by lobby group Center for Science in the Public
Interest, according to a report by SupermarketNews.
Pregnant women are advised to avoid high doses of vitamin A,
because a high intake of vitamin A in pregnancy has been associated
with developmental effects on the unborn child. However too low an
intake can also pose problems. A European-funded...
Eggs play a valuable role in helping consumers achieve a balanced,
varied, and nutritious diet, the American Council on Science and
Health (ACSH) concluded in a report released today.
Swiss food giant Nestle on Monday reiterated its interest in some
cereal brands put up for sale by Novartis as speculation mounted
that the food firm is among the last bidders for the drug firm's
health and functional food unit.
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.
We reported on Monday that the UK supermarket chain the
Co-Operative Group has condemned the misleading labelling of foods
claiming that foodmanufacturers are "hoodwinking" consumers. Today
the UK Food and Drink Federation,...
A scientist from Russia has developed a recipe for bifidobeer - a
beer that contains bifidobacteria. There is evidence to suggest
that bifidobacteria contained in beer can perform several functions
at the same time - beer quality...
Zinc intake among the elderly in Europe is generally low - but
European researchers are currently trying to discover the role of
zinc in preventing the chronic and degenerative diseases associated
with ageing.
A UK supermarket chain is calling for the government to crack down
on misleading food labels - underlining the link between unhealthy
eating and inappropriate labels.
UK chemical analysis company Burkard Scientific has developed a
compact package for accurate and user-friendly sugar analysis, the
company claims this week.
Shares in functional drink giant Yakult Honsha on Monday dropped
sharply after a local weekend report that the Japanese beverage
maker had paid off a suspected racketeer, reports Dow Jones.
Processing fruit and vegetables is known to reduce their vitamin C
content, but this does not necessarily mean that their antioxidant
properties are reduced, claim scientists in the US.
US functional flavour company Blue Pacific Flavors has opened a
state-of-the-art finished beverage R&D application facility for
the development of functional beverages.
UK starch ingredient company National Starch, a subsidiary of
chemical giant ICI, this week announced the launch of Novation 9330
and Novation 9360 - a range of organic, functional native starches.
Signs that the functional food market is gaining ground were
revealed this week when the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA)
announced it is considering a 'novel food' application by a food
manufacturer to market 'milk and...
Even as Pennsylvania lawmakers move forward in attempts to halt the
sale of the chocolate maker, Hershey Foods said on Thursday that it
had received an unsolicited mini-tender offer to buy less than 2
per cent of the company.
The UK restaurant sector's financial performance is, on average,
better than that of the rest of the hospitality industry and
restaurateurs are confident about the future, writes a new report
released this week.
Dietary antioxidants are currently at the centre of a new
collaboration between scientists and the industry with increasing
evidence to suggest that these compounds could have beneficial
effects on the ageing processes. Most of the...
Japanese ingredients company Ajinomoto is to open two new food
research and development centres in China and the United States.
The centres are positioned as branches of the company's existing
Food Research and Development Laboratories.
Australian food ingredients company Burns Philp & Co said on
Thursday that it had agreed to sell its Australasian terminals
division to Kaneb Pipe Line Partners for A$83 million (€45m).
In the competitive world of food retail and food production the
quality of a food product is of uppermost importance. Scientists in
the US claim to have come up with a novel alternative to the human
taster for apples - a robot.
Men diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer should try to reduce
the levels of fat and calcium in their diet in order to delay the
onset of a more serious form of the disease, according to research
from the US - a dilemma for those...
A simple hormone could be the answer for millions of people
worldwide suffering from obesity. An international team of
scientists claim to have discovered a gut hormone that could
significantly decrease the appetite, reducing the...
Is the collective European tastebud becoming more refined?
According to a new report from market research company Datamonitor,
this is indeed the case. Speciality foods are flourishing across
Europe as consumers become increasingly...
This week we reported on new research that suggests the dairy
ingredient casein could be used in the packaging and coating of
foods. Today we learn that food scientists at the University of
Arkansas have created an edible film that...
The UK Food Standards Agency is this week consulting on draft
regulations to implement a new European Directive that defines
chocolate. The new directive means that the UK's traditional milk
chocolate recipe can stay the same,...
The Ingredient Technology Group (ITG) division of Ocean Spray this
week announced record European sales of cranberry ingredients for
the last fiscal year. With a 134 per cent increase on the previous
year's sales, Europe now...
The words 'food safety' are on the lips of manufacturers,
politicians and consumers across the world. In response to a
seemingly increasing preoccupation with this issue scientists are
constantly under pressure to come up...
Researchers in the UK claim to have devised a new method of
selectively oxidising terpenes to produce compounds of particular
interest to the perfumery, flavour and pharmaceutical industries.
Scientists at Oxford have developed a...
Switzerland's Nestle said on Tuesday that it would buy Chef America
for $2.6 billion (€2.7bn) in cash as the world's largest food group
tries to cement its position in the fast-growing US frozen food
market.
A scientist at the US Agricultural Research Service has received a
patent for her method to turn a milk protein into water-resistant
films that could be used to coat or package foods.
Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets which have become popular in
recent years may be good at helping people lose weight rapidly, but
they could also be damaging their kidneys and their bones,
according to researchers at the University...
German pectin specialist Herbstreith & Fox claimed this week
that it is endeavouring to exploit the raw materials used for
pectin production as completely as possible with regards to process
integrated environmental protection...
UK manufacturer and supplier of texture analysis equipment Lloyd
Instruments announced this week that it has launched a new test
fixture designed specifically to meet the quality assessment
requirements of spaghetti, pasta and noodlesproducers.
Italy's biggest miller, Grandi Molini Italiani (GMI), refuses to
import genetically modified (GM) wheat because consumers do not
want it, its CEO Antonio Costato said on Monday.
Italian energy company Edison and a consortium of sugar beet
producers said on Friday that they had, once again, agreed to
extend exclusive talks on the sale of Edison's 54 per cent stake in
French sugar company Beghin-Say, to...
Swiss food group Nestle on Friday declined to comment on market
talk it might want to buy US confectionery maker Hershey, but said
it would be keen on regaining its top-selling Kit Kat brand in the
United States.
In May this year we reported on a US study that suggested workers
in the food-flavouring manufacturing industry may be at risk of
developing an irreversible type of damage to the lungs. This week a
new study implies that some workers...
Arkady Craigmillar, a UK supplier of bakery ingredients and frozen
products, announced this week that production of its confectionery
mixes will move to its Manchester factory from a Unilever-owned
facility in Suffolk.
Workers in the US food industry were reminded last week about some
of the safety hazards that exist in food production when an
industrial food processing machine that was cutting cabbage spun
out of control, crushing one man to death,...
New research from the UK has revealed that selenium (Se) levels in
British bread-making wheats are 10 to 50 times lower than in their
American or Canadian counterparts. The study, published in the
Journal of the Science of Food and...
Shares in the US-based packaging company Sealed Air Corporation,
which makes Bubble Wrap and other protective packaging for the food
industry, have plummeted this week after the ruling by a US judge
which will make it easier for claimants...
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has been awarded three US patents for
the use of concentrated isoflavones combined with other
phytochemicals to treat blood-related diseases, cancer and
menopausal symptoms.
The planned sale of Hershey Foods is expected to come under fire on
Friday from a broad coalition of the confectionery maker's hometown
neighbours, including workers, politicians, reform activists and
ordinary citizens.
