News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
For Britain's retailers, 2004 was a mixed bag, with the resolution of the Safeway takeover ending with victory for Morrisons, a startling decline in fortunes for Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury and the continuing domination of Tesco. And 2005 looks...
The olive oil, egg and mushroom industry will all benefit from new funding earmarked by Brussels to raise the profile of a handful of food products.
Tharos Laboratories has developed a natural sleep supplement which claims to aid restful sleep through all its phases and promote alertness during the daytime.
Superquinn, the family-owned Irish supermarket group, has been bought by an investment group called Select Retail Holdings for around €450 million, a move designed to secure the long-term future of the business in an increasingly competitive Irish...
A report from market researcher Mintel suggests that soy may be falling out of favor with consumers, and that food manufacturers are having to be more imaginative in their bid to encourage them to include it in their diets.
Tightening up traceability rules to slice away risk to the food chain, with the entry of 2005 food industry firms are now required to notify local authorities, suggesting food alerts may rise this year.
Food makers are one step closer to being able to identify what makes a protein more likely to become an allergen and consequently slicing them out of food formulations with UK researchers finding over a hundred allergens could be classified into just...
US sweetener company zuChem will launch its initial mannitol product in the first quarter of 2005 on the back of the FDA's recent amendment to its legislation governing the sweetener, reports Philippa Nuttall.
New techniques to minimise the risk of the harmful food pathogen E. coli in the food chain sees the launch of rapid detection system that could speed up identification and reduce costs for the meat industry.