News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
East European consumers are enjoying an ever wider choice of soft drinks as markets open up and purchasing power increases. And growth in the market shows no sign of slowing, as popular local brands continue to hold their own against western brands. ...
Gostomel Glass Factory, Ukraine's largest glass-bottle producer, is borrowing €13.3 million from the EBRD to build a new facility that will enable it to produce 600,000 beer bottles a day.
The global pretensions of British food retail market leader Tesco were made quite clear last month when the company announced that it had raise more than £1.6 billion through a share placement and cost savings which would be used to fuel growth both...
Red clover isoflavones may help to protect women, recently advised to stop using HRT, from the risk of osteoporosis, suggests new research that shows a protective effect of the supplement on the lumbar spine.
The newly-established European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is not about to 'abandon Brussels,' according to executive director Geoffrey Podger, and transparency and independence will be the defining characteristics of the agency. Podger used a...
Beneficial knock-on effects of the Avian Influenza and BSE crises could soon be felt within Denmark's pork industry, according to some industry experts. Denmark's Bacon and Meat Council believes that after months of historically low levels, Danish...
German sugar giant Suedzucker willl break ground on a new plant to produce bioethanol fuel from wheat at Zeitz in East Germany. Earmarked for completion by 2005, the plant will operate in conjunction with the local sugar factory.
German retailer and wholesaler Metro is one of the chief supporters of new retail technology, running a so-called Future Store Initiative to trial features such as RFID tagging and self-scanning.
Tesco, the UK's leading food retail group, is one of a number of leading companies in the food industry criticised this week for "driving down employment conditions for millions of women workers around the world" by the international agency Oxfam.
Croatian food company Agrokor has said that it is readying to invest €45 million into the production of ice cream at its Serbian subsidiary Frikom.
A wide range of organic or health food products on sale in the UK contain traces of genetically modified (GM) ingredients, according to a study due to be published in April, reports CORDIS.
In a move to protect home markets Chinese corn processor Global Bio-chem will link up with Japan's Mitsui & Co to develop, manufacture and sell the bulk reduced calorie sweetener sorbitol in China under a new joint venture company.
The world's largest online database of information on how pathogenic bacteria respond to different environmental conditions in food has been established by scientists with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service and the United Kingdom's Institute of...
Consumers in the UK can eat their porridge safe in the knowledge that their oat products are free from harmful toxins - mycotoxins - after an extensive survey in the UK found very low traces, if none at all, of the contaminant in a range of food products.