News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
In May this year we reported on a US study that suggested workers in the food-flavouring manufacturing industry may be at risk of developing an irreversible type of damage to the lungs. This week a new study implies that some workers who mix and...
Arkady Craigmillar, a UK supplier of bakery ingredients and frozen products, announced this week that production of its confectionery mixes will move to its Manchester factory from a Unilever-owned facility in Suffolk.
Aquentium, a diversified holding company, is to acquire US developer of food safety equipment Food Safe, for an undisclosed amount.
Swiss food group Nestle on Friday declined to comment on market talk it might want to buy US confectionery maker Hershey, but said it would be keen on regaining its top-selling Kit Kat brand in the United States.
Italian energy company Edison and a consortium of sugar beet producers said on Friday that they had, once again, agreed to extend exclusive talks on the sale of Edison's 54 per cent stake in French sugar company Beghin-Say, to give the consortium more...
New research from the UK has revealed that selenium (Se) levels in British bread-making wheats are 10 to 50 times lower than in their American or Canadian counterparts. The study, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture ,...
Workers in the US food industry were reminded last week about some of the safety hazards that exist in food production when an industrial food processing machine that was cutting cabbage spun out of control, crushing one man to death, severing another...