News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Future weight loss diets could become 'custom-made' for each individual, according to scientists working on a three-year international research project funded by the European Union. The project, known as Nugenob, explores the relationship between...
Carlsberg's head of supply chain, Jette Knudsen, is to leave the group in December after a disastrous summer season which saw the company recall millions of cans of sour-tasting beer from the domestic market.
Pure, a non-dairy spread which has taken the UK yellow fats marekt by storm over the last three years, is to be relaunched with a new pack design to give it greater on-shelf stand-out.
Like Carrefour last week, French retailer Casino has reported third quarter results severely impacted by the effect of exchange rates, in particular from its Latin American unit. But sales nonetheless progressed during the quarter.
A study of more than 400 Swedish women has found that folate deficiency was associated with a 50 per cent increase in risk of early miscarriage. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, also found that high folate levels were not...
In a week of news awash with food safety scares, consumers will find some comfort today with a report from the UK Food Standards Agency that reveals health risks arising from mixtures of low-level pesticides in foods - the so-called cocktail effect -...
Speakers at a recent conference on the draft wine law currently going through the Spanish parliament have stressed the beneficial effects the law is likely to have on improving quality and reducing over-production.
Shares of Surebeam, the US provider of electronic beam food safety systems, yesterday soared more than 30 per cent after the company won its latest grocery contract amid concern over meat safety following several US outbreaks of food-borne illnesses.
UK scientists identify protein components in cereal crops responsible for the debilitating condition coeliac disease offering hope to sufferers. The findings could lead to foods modified to remove the rogue sequence.
Biomerica, a global medical technology company, has been contracted to develop a new food allergy test for the Kyowa Medex Company in Japan, a subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company. Terms of the development...