News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
China has recently relaxed the rules obliging foreign retail groups to take a local partner, a move expected to lead to rapid growth in the number of international retailers doing business there. But despite Chinese consumers' eagerness to try out new...
Boosting 'added-value' opportunities for companies working with corn, new research from government scientists on a fungus could hold the key to using corn fibre as a factory for the production of the potent antioxidant lycopene, making it a far...
As one door closes another one opens with the Food Ingredients Asia show that ended in Shanghai last week now replaced by the finished foods exhibition SIAL China. At the opening event this week EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler was there to...
The UK's Institute of Packaging is helping to launch a Europe-wide diploma in packaging. But as IoP chief executive Lynda Purser outlined in her speech at Total 2004, both the Institute and the packaging industry as a whole must do more to attract...
Russian white sugar production from imported raw beet is reported to be down by 23 per cent for the start of the year, as the sector struggles against diminished supplies of raw materials and high stocks of unsold processed sugar. But after a...
Accession is due to impact inflation in Poland, with rising food industry costs being passed on to consumers and pushing the overall inflationary rate up to an estimated 3.1 per cent this year, according to independent research.
In the same week that the US food watchdog releases new findings on the presence of acrylamide, the probable human carcinogen, in processed food products, the American Chemical society will dedicate an entire symposium to this sensitive issue that has...
Ready-to-go food products continue to meet the needs of the UK consumer, say market analysts Mintel, reflecting current growth trends in the food industry and confirming the future direction for food manufacturers playing to the UK market, writes...
A small US study on honey, a food consumed by mankind for thousands of years, suggests daily consumption of this sweet ingredient could be a good source of protective antioxidant compounds for the human body, writes Dominique Patton.