News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Ahold, the Dutch retail group, yesterday admitted for the first time that the 'accounting irregularities' announced earlier this year had in fact constituted fraud, and that it believed that no more than five to 10 people had masterminded the affair.
Controversial changes over two years ago to Europe's chocolate rules - that had cocoa puritans and producers up in arms - came into force in the summer, providing ingredients companies with a raft of new opportunities.
Food scientists in the US have developed a new dough formulation to eradicate the musty, 'beany' aftertaste of some soy-based breads.
The UK's food safety watchdog has come under heavy criticism from a group of politicians. A parliamentary public accounts committee said that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) had to worker harder if it was to become an authoritative and trusted...
Only one more person from the Republic of Ireland (ROI) is likely to die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) as a consequence of eating BSE infected meat, scientists claim this week.
Rodrigo Rato, Spain's finance minister, has added his voice to the debate over food prices which has pitched retailers against suppliers. He said that Spain's various regional governments should do more to present a united front on the issue, using...
In the US, consumer bodies the Public Citizen and the Center for Food Safety have petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban irradiated ground beef.
Hunger is on the rise again after falling steadily during the first half of the 1990s, warns the UN's annual hunger report released on Wednesday. In the same week, a Danish task force asserts that organisations are falling short in their...
When 145 countries walked away from the negotiating table at the World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun in September, disappointment hung in the air over a failure to make real progress. Since then bureaucrats and politicians have been busy...
A current driving force in the food industry - cutting salt consumption in production processes - is the focus of a new research initiative in the UK.