News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Member enlargement is the biggest political priority for the European Commission and a desire to ensure that EU food safety standards are safeguarded and that the health of present and future citizens is protected remains a top priority.
US food and beverage company Kraft Foods Inc. announced this week that it has acquired Australian biscuit producer, Lanes Food Group. Several Nabisco brands have been licensed to Lanes in Australia since 1991.
Up to three-quarters of a million eggs eaten every day contain residues of a toxic drug that is widely used by intensive poultry farmers, according to a new report published this week by the Soil Association.
Britain said on Monday it had eradicated a prolonged foot-and-mouth outbreak and would declare its last 'at risk' region free of the livestock disease at midnight, ending a devastating chapter for UK farmers.
US polymer producer FMC BioPolymer announced this week that it has acquired Norway-based Pronova Biomedical AS, a supplier of ultra-pure alginates and chitosans to the pharmaceutical and medical materials markets, from a subsidiary of Norsk Hydro ASA.
Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods said on Wednesday it would invest a total of 265 million baht (€6.86 m) to create three new subsidiaries in China and Belgium in the first quarter of 2002.