EFSA appoints scientific committee leader
Europe's food safety agency slowly inches forward with a new leader for the heart of its structure - the scientific committee.
Archives for July 2, 2003
How to get brainy children
Scientists will team up with Unilever to examine the link between vitamins and minerals and brain development in children in the first study of its kind in Australia.
Tyson beefs up ingredients market
When chicken processor Tyson merged with meat giant IBP the €4.1 billion deal marked one the largest acquisitions in the food industry in the last few years. Today the company is moving deeper into health ingredients.
Europe's food industry gives cautious welcome to GM vote
Europe's food industry has welcomed yesterday's decision not to further reduce the threshold level for the labelling of GM ingredients in foodstuffs, but remains deeply concerned about the new labelling requirements also approved yesterday, claims the...
McCormick sheds non-core business
US spice giant McCormick has sold the assets of Jenks Sales Brokers, a leftover slice from a UK spice purchase in the 1980s.
Europe embraces tough new GM rules
Europe's bureaucrats have cleared strict new rules on GM foods in Europe, paving the way for an end to the European-wide ban on GM foods.