News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
All Member States must fully and swiftly implement the 1998 European Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions or Europe will fall behind its competitors in this crucial sector - so the European Commission warned Member States...
A cancer expert at Ohio University has received funding to continue her work investigating the link between diet and breast cancer prevention. The new study will research the effects of a low-fat and low-sugar diet on reducing a woman's chances of...
Danish enzyme company Novozymes has come up with an online tool to help operators solve starch conversion problems.
Claims by the Russian Trade Ministry that Ochakovo beer contained an illegal preservative have been quashed by a Moscow court, but the case serves to highlight the problems facing the country's burgeoning beer market.
The amount of organic land in the UK has almost doubled in the last year, and sales of organic food are the second highest in Europe, according to new figures from the UK organic certification body, the Soil Association.
Mankind has long believed in the potential benefits that garlic can provide to the human body. As the levels of heart disease and cancer increase in Western society, a new European funded study is now underway to explore the impact on atherosclerosis...
Martell, the latest priority brand to join the Pernod Ricard stable, will see a quarter of its workforce axed in the coming months, a move Pernod says is necessary to keep the company competitive.
The European Commission releases results of an investigative report into the use and labelling of food irradiation in Europe today. Findings reveal that out of more than 6500 food samples checked for irradiation, 1.5 per cent were incorrectly labelled.