News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A rise in global stocks of wheat after a 30-year low will offer continued relief to the tighter prices experienced by the food industry in previous years, but the food chain still needs to stay on the alert.
It is over a month since the Russian authorities clamped down on beer adverts, and the impact is already being felt. But there is worse still to come for Russia's brewers, with the legislators preparing more rules which will make it illegal to drink...
This year's Czech harvest has been hailed as the best since 1993, producing almost nine million tonnes of crops, showing that the farming industry has recovered well from a poor 2003 and the disastrous floods of 2002 - just in time for the...
Natural Foods Group Hain Celestial has confirmed it will purchase the new natural vanilla flavor created by Technology Flavors & Fragrances (TFF) for use in its products.
Russia's 2004 wheat harvest will be more than sufficient to meet both domestic and export demand, but efforts by the government to invest in improving the quality of the harvest, to boost exports further, have met with a lukewarm reception by framers...
Scientists at the Emory University Health Sciences Centre are hoping to widen the understanding of an enzyme that breaks down caffeine into theophylline, using bacteria that need the breakdown product of the enzyme for survival.
RosSpirtProm, Russia's state-owned alcohol producer, is to be privatised next year in a two-phase operation expected to garner interest from a wide range of drinks companies. But with many of the distilleries within the group running at massive...
A change in attitudes to dairy products is helping to turn around sales in Australia, according to a survey by the country's dairy industry association.
California based colorMaker has developed a line of natural color blends for use in natural food bakeries.
Tackling the ongoing issue of risk assessment in the food chain the US food safety agency plans to release two draft risk assessments related to the harmful food pathogen salmonella.
Ending months of delays the upper house in Brazil has cleared the biosafety bill, paving the way for new rules to regulate the planting and sale of genetically modified (GM) crops in the country.
Identifying the gene responsible for natural defense mechanism in tomatoes could save costs for tomato producers and ultimately food processors using this common food ingredient.