News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The International Pepper Community (IPC) - gathered in India this week - has agreed to tackle falling pepper sales, aiming to get quality standards accepted by importing and exporting countries all around the world. IPC hopes on NPD and medicinal market.
Casino, the French retail group, is hoping to benefit from an improvement in exchange rates in the second half after a first half of steady growth driven by its domestic discount store operations.
Albert Heijn, the flagship Dutch supermarket chain of the embattled Ahold group, is to axe around 440 jobs in a bid to cut costs and keep pace with its main competitors.
In 2001 enough sausages were sold in Britain to go around the world five times. That's a lot of sausages, but also - as the UK food agency points out this week - a lot of salt.
Regular alcohol intake, thought to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, is associated with lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome, reported Greek researchers at the European Society of Cardiology meeting earlier this week.
In a landmark decision, the European Commission has blocked the first attempt by an EU region to turn itself into a statutory GM-free zone. The EU body ruled that governments that tried to ban genetically-modified crops would be in breach of EU law,...
Somerfield is still to find a solution to the question of how to turn around the performance of the discount store chain acquired in 1998. The latest quarterly figures show that while Somerfield improved, Kwik Save sales actually declined.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocate of safer food, will be hosting a one-day conference to examine some of the best models for reducing or eliminating food-safety hazards at the farm level.