Archives for January 24, 2003

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Food in the Balkans

The Balkans will be the setting for the Food Technology group show 2003 to take place in Istanbul, Turkey from 27 to 30 March 2003. The exhibition will concurrently run three separate shows: Food Technology, Food Ingredients & Additives and Foodpack.

Beverage preservative extends shelf life

Nutraceutical Clinical Laboratories International has said that tests conducted at its research and development facility have demonstrated that one of its preservatives, NuPreserv, has been proven to significantly extend the shelf life of beverages.

SCA establishes temperature assurance division

In the US, Tuscarora, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swedish group SCA and a division of SCA North America, has formed a new division that will specialise in products and services for the temperature assurance market.

Breakfast loses appeal

The dictum 'breakfast like a king, lunch as a prince, and dinner as a pauper' has been turned on its head as the findings of a new report from the UK reveal that nearly a third of British school children do not eat breakfast - with some even admitting...

Somerfield showing clear signs of recovery

Somerfield, like its compatriot Iceland, has suffered in recent years because of a poor image and shabby stores. Both chains have invested in new formats, and for Somerfield at least, this investment appears to be paying off.

Food industry support for CAP reforms

Proposed changes to the oft-maligned Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have been broadly welcomed by the EU food industry, in particular moves which will improve the competitiveness of the European agriculture sector. But not everyone agrees, and there...

Bubbles in breadmaking

The stability of failure in single dough bubble walls is related directly to the extensional strain hardening properties of the dough and that strain hardening plays an important role in the stabilisation of bubble walls during baking., according to...