News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Sales of pastries and baked goods suffered last summer because of the exceptionally hot weather, but an excellent performance during the colder winter months helped UK baked goods and sandwich retailer Greggs to end the year on a high.
The current BSE crisis in the US has touched numerous industries and ignited countless issues. One of these topics that the crisis has brought back to life has been the simmering feud over country-of-origin labelling of beef and other foods.
The mad cow case identified in the US before Christmas originated from a farm in Canada, officials confirmed this week.
Food giant Cargill has opened a plant to manufacture erythritol, a sweetener that is claimed to taste like sugar but contain no calories. The group believes there is real potential in the product, and has already signed an agreement with a Japanese...
Ireland's food and drink industry had a good year in 2003, at least on export markets. The latest data from Bord Bia, the Irish food board, show that exports were 2 per cent higher in 2003 than the previous year despite weaker demand conditions,...
Enterobacter sakazakii, a potential foodborne pathogen, has been linked to outbreaks of illness in new-born and premature babies and contamination of infant formulae has been suggested as a source of infection. A recent study published in The Lancet...
Ireland kicks off the year with the presidency of Europe and, as part of the scientific programme linked to the six-month responsibility, the country will organise an international food conference for the 17 and 18 June in Dublin.
The trademark battle between Czech brewer Budejovicky Budvar and US giant Anheuser-Busch has continued this week with the resolution of a dispute between the two players in South Korea.
The Big Food Group is thought to be the company most likely to emerge victorious in the bidding war for UK convenience store operator Londis, a reflection of the continuing improvement at the company which just a few years ago was more likely to be...
People who eat a regular diet of highly salted food double their risk of stomach cancer, according to a report published this week in the British Journal of Cancer.
The world's top supplier of industrial chocolate to the confectionery industry delivered a solid set of first quarter figures yesterday with net profit rising by 17 per cent, boosted by the integration of recently acquired US confectionery firm...
Some 47 per cent of UK parents regard their children's diet and exercise as one of the top three things they worry about, and for 8 per cent this issue is their biggest cause for concern, according to the findings of a recent UK survey.