News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
In a rare interview , Cargill, the US food group, spoke to Laurent Flallo from Les Echos, and set out the rationale behind its recent acquisition, the biggest in the company's 137-year history, of French starch company Cerestar.
A Kraft Foods division on Tuesday bought an undisclosed stake in a Chicago-based start-up that aims to improve food service companies' ability to place and receive electronic orders.
US plant protein extraction company Burcon NutraScience Corporation has filed a patent application to cover ten functional properties of canola protein isolate. The company hopes that the patent will make canola protein isolate a valuable ingredient...
The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) announced this week that it will release a further £7 million (€11.4m) to boost BSE and CJD research.
Research into the possible harmful effects that St John's Wort might have on the body, when taken in combination with traditional medicine, have always sparked strong reactions from the health industry. A new study from the Netherlands looks set to...
An attempt by a food ingredients billionaire to take over New Zealand's second biggest dairy company could head into difficulties if a farmers' collective wins the day, reports local New Zealand paper The Evening Post.
Pesticides developed in the hope that they may be safer than older chemicals known to cause cancer may be only slightly better, researchers said on Tuesday.