News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The global meat packaging industry is today governed by the strictest of guidelines. Safety and hygiene issues have forced themselves to the top of the agenda following a series of health scares, and companies have had to fight hard to regain consumer...
Ginger, the key ingredient in Asia's culinary triangle, could contain a powerful component to combat the growth of human colorectal cancer cells.
Dutch ingredients firm DMV International has developed a new milk-derived peptide aimed at liver health, an area attracting increasing attention from consumers.
The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) is essential not only for researchers to work willingly together on innovative research, but also in order to bring the fruits of this collaboration to the market. IPR is, however, a confusing issue...
The addition of 13 new denominations of origin helped lift Spanish sales of DO food products by 8.1 per cent last year. Cheese is the biggest single category to benefit from the quality mark - excluding wines and spirits, that is.
In as little as three years' time, older consumers will have become the mainstream market in the UK, accounting for over half of expenditure on food, drink and household products - a revelation that has significant implications for food manufacturers...
Denmark's Bacon and Meat Council has predicted that Danish pork prices are set to rise.
An insidious fuzzy grey mould that often coats refrigerated strawberries and many other plants during growing and storage could be prevented by a gene identified at Purdue university in the US.
Steady growth for the US and European fruit and vegetables extracts and powders market - currently standing at €819.9 million ($960M) - is pitched to reach $1,321 million by 2009. But NPD, price and product awareness will all be necessary to keep...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) alerted the Cypriot authorities and European Commission this week after another tahini product was found to be contaminated with salmonella.