News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
With a production value of over €600 billion, the responsibility of up to 3 million employees, and the main user of Community agricultural produce, the European food and drink industries this week encouraged ministers to back CAP reform.
Dutch-based contract research organisation Nizo food research claims to have taken the cold gelation method a step further, opening the way to control stability, gel strength and flavour conservation of heat induced gels.
In Germany the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment has received the all-important certificate of accreditation for food quality research.
Spanish olive oil processor Koipe is facing censure over alleged price fixing after the country's competition authorities agreed this week to investigate a claim made by the OCU consumer group.
The wheels of European bureaucracy continue to turn with the European Commission this week granting approval to two novel foods for use as food ingredients. The move comes after an agreement between member states in the Standing Committee for the Food...
After several difficult years, Marks & Spencer is now focusing on innovation to sustain its recovery. Its successful Simply Food format is to be trialled in motorway service stations, while the self-checkout system will be rolled out in eight more...
Dow Corning has launched a line of synthetic gear oils that is said to extend drain intervals by three times over conventional mineral oils while reducing power consumption by as much as 17 per cent.
Ahead of testing negotiations, aimed at reaching a decision on the reform proposals to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), that start today at the Agriculture Council in Luxembourg, Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler confirmed that although the...