News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
In what must be considered to be a significant step towards greater harmonisation in Europe, the European Parliament voted on Wednesday for new safety controls on vitamin supplements. The new law will require manufacturers of vitamins and minerals to...
US meat giant Tyson Foods has asked a Delaware court to throw out a landmark ruling on its merger with IBP Inc. as the country's largest producer of beef, chicken and pork seeks ammunition in a legal tussle with shareholders who say they lost money in...
In what must be seen as warning to other food manufacturers, a UK company was fined this week for incorrectly labelling a product containing GM ingredients.
The next episode in the saga of Snow Brand Milk Products, the Japanese company hit by food safety scandals, unfurled yesterday when the company announced that it is to tie up with two agricultural cooperatives and request a capital injection from...
In Europe, approximately 75 000 citizens die from colon cancer each year which is a significant financial and social burden on Member States. Recent studies have revealed a link between the preventive effect of naturally occurring dietary plant...
The organic dairy industry - producers, processors and retailers - must ensure that it avoids the route taken by the conventional industry if it is to survive, delegates were told at a Soil Association conference this week.
Women who take oestrogen may decrease their risk of developing atherosclerosis - the progressive narrowing and hardening of the arteries - according to new research published in the March issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism...
An extraordinary phenomenon is currently under discussion - that tomatoes smokers may be sensitive to tomatoes. A new book launched recently claims that eating tomatoes makes it harder for people to give up smoking, reports Ananova.com.