Archives for December 10, 2002

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Calls for honest labelling continue

Food manufacturers took a further battering this week when the UK Consumers' Association (CA) released new research, as part of its Honest Labelling campaign, that suggests the public continues to be misled by inadequate food and drink labelling -...

HACCP: shared responsiblity for success

"HACCP is nothing without trainers," declared Dagmar Engel, HACCP trainer and consultant from Germany, at the recentInternational Food Safety Focus conference, co-hosted by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, held in London at the end of...

Fear not the cranberries

The gastronomic delights of Christmas appear to be the focus of current research at the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). Earlier this week we reported on a recent study of dried fruit - destined for mince-pies and Christmas pudding. Yesterday,...

George Weston accused of price fixing

The Australian competition watchdog accuses biscuit, bread and cake-maker George Weston Foods, and one of its former senior executives, of fixing the price of flour.

Corn fibre into high value, new research

A $2.4 million (€2.4m) research grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) will allow the National Corn Growers Association, Archer Daniels Midland and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to continue collaborating to...