Archives for March 15, 2005

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Chr Hansen targets wine industry with yeast product

Wineries are getting bigger and their businesses are therefore exposed to greater risk. In a bid to help producers achieve greater consistency, Danish ingredients firm Chr Hansen has created blended yeasts, writes Philippa Nuttall.

Orkla buys Romanian meat processor

Orkla Foods Romania (OFR), the local subsidairy of Norwegian food processor Orkla, has acquired one of Romania's biggest meat processing groups in a bid to garner a market-leading position there ahead of the country's expected EU accession in 2007,...

Greenpeace denounces Russian GM users

Greenpeace Russia has published a list of companies it claims are using genetically modified (GM) ingredients in foods produced and sold in Russia, but a lack of funds means that it may not be able to achieve its goal of spreading the word to as many...

Egypt opens door to UK wheat

New opportunities have emerged for British wheat growers after an industry association used a new classification system to successfully negotiate the export of UK wheat to Egypt, the world's second largest buyer, reports Chris Mercer.

Nordic scientists test sodium detection methods

The Nordic Committee on Food Analysis (NMKL) has identified flame atomic absorption spectrometry after microwave digestion as a viable means of determining sodium content in foodstuffs.

Czech Republic leading CEE pack

CEE-foodindustry.com was in Prague last week to report from a country with one of the strongest economies of all the new member states - a position it fully intends to exploit in the coming years, writes Anthony Fletcher.