News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
As the anti-GM feel gains pace in Europe Britain's third largest retailer Sainsbury has seized the moment launching onto the supermarket shelves a milk produced from cows 'guaranteed to have been fed a GM free diet'. New rules on GM food and feed...
The European food industry awaits as the European Commission huddles together to assess possible changes to the current nutrition labelling rules governing food products, reports Lindsey Partos. Industry is concerned that amendments will be difficult...
Europe can consider itself almost free from the contagious foot-and-mouth disease but must be remain vigilant - the FMD virus is stable in chilled products and can be transmitted through the movement of meat.
Following approval in Australia and New Zealand for the increasingly popular low-cal, prebiotic sweetener tagatose, licensee Arla Food Ingredients has farmed out the rights for distribution for the two countries to fellow ingredients firm Nutrinova.
Exercise is more influential than calcium intake in determining bone strength in young women, say US researchers, who found that daily calcium intake had no significant impact on bone gain during adolescence. They say that taking more than 500 mg of...
Food makers opting for sugar rich recipes for their soft drink formulations are under constant attack from consumer groups claiming that the sugar content is harmful to teeth. But a new study from the US finds that flavour additives in a range of...