News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Traffic light labelling would be a primitive, unworkable and pointless way of highlighting unhealthy foods according to the UK food industry, speaking in reaction to the newly published government policy paper on public health. Chris Mercer reports.
Falling pasta sales at leading US company American Italian Pasta reflect an industry-wide problem and demonstrate how a low-carb legacy may still undermine foods with a higher carbohydrate content, as Chris Mercerdiscovers.
International Flavors & Fragrances says it is planning the construction of a new specialty ingredients manufacturing plant in China, in a move that aims to boost global production capacity.
Hungarian food canner Globus has dropped into the red in the third quarter of 2004, with pressure on prices and the sale of a production facility contributing to the poor performance. But a steady move in Hungary towards higher added-value foods keeps...
A soaring premium beer market in Russia and growing consumption in Poland and Romania are driving forward a major international brewer's European profits by offsetting problems in Hungary and Slovakia, writes Chris Mercer.