T-bone steak came a step closer to reappearing on European menus on
Tuesday after senior European Union officials said the removal of
cattle vertebrae from food stocks provided little extra protection
against the human form of "mad...
Muller yoghurt and Flora margarine enjoyed the biggest gains in
Britain's top 20 grocery brand rankings while two Proctor &
Gamble products were among the big loosers, market researcher
ACNielsen said on Wednesday.
Finland's agriculture minister said on Wednesday he was confident
his country would beat off a challenge from Barcelona to become the
base for the European Union's new food agency.
US flavour group Technology Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. has
entered into a letter of intent to merge with another flavour and
fragrance company Belmay Holding Corp., the two companies announced
on Wednesday.
When Americans get queasy about the economy, they reach for comfort
food like chocolate and ketchup and don comfort clothes like Levi's
jeans, research from the University of Michigan showed on Monday.
Due to a lack of raw materials to supply food manufacturers at
home, Japanese food producers are showing an interest in their Thai
counterparts, claims a report this week in the Thai publication,
Business Day.
U.S. antitrust authorities could give the green light to an
Anglo-French bid for Seagram's drinks portfolio as soon as today,
an industry source said on Monday.
French drink and food company Groupe Danone has shown
disappointment that the independent directors of takeover target
Frucor Beverages have rejected its bid.
Research into the commercial use of genetically-modified potato
starch has been agreed in Germany by Aventis CropScience in a joint
venture with Dutch cooperative AVEBE
The Australia New Zealand Food Authority, after consultation with
State and Territory health authorities, has recommended a
nation-wide recall of mini-cup jelly lollies, containing the food
additive konjac.
Danish ingredients company Danisco is accelerating the development
of starter cultures to the dairy industry and other food industry
customers with the opening of a new pilot plant in Niebüll in
Germany.
Whey derivative producer Borculo Domo Ingredient introduced a new
range of brandnames at the Food Ingredients Europe 2001 exhibition
in London last week.
Flavour company Quest International introduced globally its new
range of 25 High Impact Taste (HIT) flavours Ingredients or `Hifi
aromatics' for short.
Dutch food group Numico NV Wednesday suffered a 10 per cent fall in
underlying profit in the third quarter on the back of weaker U.S.
vitamin sales and warned that full year cash earnings would be
flat.
Singapore-listed Chinese firms United Food Holdings Ltd UTDF.SI and People's Food Holdings Ltd PPFH.SI said on Thursday their pork products were not...
Food manufacturer and distributor International Multifoods Corp. IMC.N on Thursday said it expects to complete its $316 million purchase of specialty...
Europe's attempts to solve a transatlantic row over genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) by tough food labelling rules have yet to
bear fruit, leaving the 15-nation bloc vulnerable to legal
challenge, officials say.
US regulators are considering tighter guidelines for the approval
of some drugs, making some of the world's largest pharmaceutical
companies rethink their research efforts.
Food Junction Holdings Ltd, which runs 15 food courts in Singapore
and two in Malaysia, said on Friday it was offering 20 million new
shares at S$0.20 each in an initial public offering (IPO).
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.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday it was
planning a massive relief food operation for more than half a
million mainly rural Zimbabweans faced with starvation.
Britain is taking the threat of a bioterrorist attack against its
food supply seriously and is ready to respond very quickly, a
senior Food Standards Agency official said on Thursday.
Irish food ingredients company Glanbia ingredients presents at the
FiE show in London this week a natural milk mineral complex. Called
TruCal the ingredient is extracted from fresh milk.
Italian food company Parmalat this week announced the creation of a
new organisational structure to focus on strengthening the
Company's operation in North America.
Revenues relating to the Scandinavian market for fresh organic
vegetables are forecast to double in the near future as consumer
demand for organic foods continues to rise in the region, according
to a new report from UK market...
Welcome to our Food Ingredients Europe 2001 Special Edition. Food
Ingredients Europe 2001 opens its doors to food industry
professionals on Monday 5th November at the new ExCel Exhibition
Centre in London's Docklands.
The European Commission has granted clearance under the European
Union's merger control law to the proposed acquisition by UK soft
drinks company Cadbury Schweppes Plc of the soft drinks brands and
related businesses of French...
Leading food ingredients supplier German-based Nutrinova is to
settle patent infringement claims against Rit-Chem with respect to
unauthorised sales by Rit-Chem of acesulfame K.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week designated
the milk protein activated lactoferrin as Generally Recognised as
Safe (GRAS). This new status brings the new food safety technology
one step closer to commercialisation.
A shift in attitudes of both consumers and producers is required if
society's expectations of food and agricultural policy are to be
met, EU Commissioner David Byrne for Health and Consumer Protection
said this week.
Vitamin C can aid congestive heart failure patients by suppressing
the signal for cell death within blood vessel linings, French and
German scientists reveal this week.
Greenpeace Canada lambasted the country's largest grocery chain and
Health Minister Allan Rock on Monday for failing to support
mandatory labelling of genetically engineered (GE) foods.
A compound in eggs, a lecithin, can reduce the absorption of
cholesterol, US researchers reveal this week. The research has
resulted in the issue of a new U.S. Patent.