Archives for March 2, 2005

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E coli cases see significant reduction

Cases of the harmful food pathogen E coli in beef dropped by over 40 per cent last year, according to a study published last week by the USDA.

Flawed study exaggerated US obesity crisis

The US Centre for Disease Control has helped to create a climate of fear by exaggerating America's obesity crisis, claims a consumer and industry group, as one major cereal producer warns the whole obesity issue is becoming too emotional, reports...

FMC Foodtech achieves efficient batter mixing

Industrial food processing systems provider FMC FoodTech has launched a new batter mixer that offers greater capacity, easy maintenance and improved hygiene resulting in increased productivity and lower costs.

Premier confident of no financial impact from Sudan 1

Premier Foods, the company at the centre of the UK's biggest food product recall, said it was confident of suffering little or no financial impact as a result of the food scare as it reported figures for 2004 already affected by the result of a fire...

Pace quickens for Chr Hansen sale

The sale of Chr Hansen's ingredients arm gains pace with reports suggesting the unit could fetch nearly €1 billion ($1.31 billion), writes Lindsey Partos.

InBev shows strong growth as premium focus pays off

InBev is already beginning to see the benefits of last year's merger of Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazil's AmBev, with volume sales in 2004 growing at more than twice the rate of the global beer market as a whole. And with operations in all of the...

Sudan 1: is best practice enough to retain consumer confidence?

In addition to evident best practice in food safety across the food chain, the food industry needs to establish better channels of communication to tackle food recalls and avoid a blow to consumer confidence, conclude the authors of a fresh survey in...

Fonterra raises stakes in National Foods bidding war

New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has upped its share price offer for Australia's leading dairy company National Foods, trumping a rival bid from San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and gaining the unanimous backing of National Foods' executive board,...

Flagging growth for flavour leader Givaudan

Contributing the biggest revenue stream to Givaudan, the flavours unit posted sales of CHF 1.6 billion (€1 billion) sales in 2004, representing stagnant growth on a like-for-like basis in Swiss francs.