News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The opening of the new Consumers' Association(CA) Scottish office in Edinburgh was the occasion for Sheila McKechnie, CA Director, to launch a Consumers' Association campaign calling for the Food Standards Agency Scotland to introduce the mandatory...
Two US companies have joined numerous others worldwide in recalling their jelly products from the market, following FDA advice that the jellies pose a serious threat to children.
Nestle announced today the sale of its Food Ingredients Specialties (FIS) to flavouring company Givaudan
German authorities are searching for a consignment of imported veal contaminated with an antibiotic which can halt production of human blood cells, the federal Ministry of Agriculture and Consumer Protection said.
Ingredients company DSM has signed an agreement with enzyme producer Novozymes, thereby settling a number of lawsuits filed in several countries, relating to the infringement and validity of phytase patents owned by DSM.
Mouse experiments suggest that folic acid deficiency could increase the brain's susceptibility to Parkinson's disease, according to scientists at the US National Institute on Aging.
Britain said on Wednesday it would extend a programme aimed at eradicating scrapie from sheep amid fears that the illness could mask mad cow disease in the national flock. Scientists are investigating whether mad cow disease, or BSE, is present in the...
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) recently announced details of a survey that highlights misleading GM free claims on food labels.
The European Union has agreed to resume beef imports from Argentina on February 1, almost a year after they were banned because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Associated Press reports