Archives for March 26, 2003

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Food Safe pushes its safety message

Aquentium CEO Mark Taggatz has emphasised key strategies on how the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Food Safe, is aiming to alleviate current fears within the food industry - an area of growing interest given the current political climate.

Hope for CAP

Decoupling would secure significant income gains for EU farmers, writes the European Commission this week. The comment on the link between production and subsidy - so called 'decoupling' - is in response to the release of two new studies on the impact...

Olive scanning

A specially developed scanning technology for olive producers has helped to improve harvest quality and predictability, claims Danish safety systems provider Foss.

Metro bucks the trend with sales rise

A strong performance from its cash & carry and electronic goods units helped German retail company Metro to a 4 per cent increase in sales for 2002 - a good performance in light of declining turnover in the German retail sector as a whole.

Foster's to produce Diageo RTDs

CUB, the Australian beer arm of Foster's, is to extend its marketing partnership with Diageo to include the latter company's premixed spirit brands for the first time. The deal should see the rapid growth of the draught RTD market in Australia - with...

High Pressure Processing gets the spotlight

A research team which forms part of the UK Department of Agriculture is to hold a conference to highlight its work in the area of High Pressure Processing for food safety.

Kraft powder up for sale?

US food company Kraft Foods has put its powdered soft drink concentrate plant in Hyderabad, India up for sale, reports the Indian paper Financial Express.