News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
As increasing numbers of national governments worldwide toy with new legal frameworks for genetically modified foodstuffs, the global food labelling body Codex Alimentarius will table the issue at an upcoming meeting in Montreal.
The health benefits of green tea dovetail into sleep as researchers in Japan find an amino acid located in green tea could improve slumber in young men.
The key ingredient in the most popular ice cream in the world faces a rise in price, already at a 10 year high, as the worst cyclone in two decades hits Madagascar, the leading producer of vanilla.
European food ingredients companies working in the rapidly emerging Chinese food market can look forward to getting a slice of the €135 billion trade exchange between the two blocs.
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) is launching a programme to help food manufacturers address issues such as obesity, nutrition and food safety. Entitled HOW - health, obesity and well-being - the programme offers consultancy, development and...
Fearing the invasion of the devasting soybean rust, the American Soybean Association (ASA) has repeated its call for a temporary ban on South American soybean imports, despite assurances from the Bush administration that trade would not be the cause...
Comforting news for parents as survey of infant formula by the UK's food watchdog finds levels of harmful chemicals, dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in infant formula have fallen significantly over the past five years and are...