Cargill's Life Stage business approach unveiled at IFT
Cargill's pioneering Life Stage approach to developing and marketing ingredients shows how the industry can better tune into consumer demand, writes Anthony Fletcher from New Orleans.
Archives for July 17, 2005
EFSA scientists to review aspartame study
Reports from a fresh Italian study alleging aspartame could pose a cancer risk are not in harmony with the extensive research that exist on aspartame, say suppliers of this popular sweetener.
Private equity buys food ingredients group IMCD
Private equity moves deeper into food ingredients industry, with European equity provider ABN AMRO Capital buying up ingredients distributor IMCD from AlpInvest Partners, reports Lindsey Partos.
Laughing gas makes best bubbles in chocolate
Laughing gas - or nitrous oxide - produces chocolate with better bubbles and a more intense melt-in-the-mouth flavour, claim UK researchers,writes Lindsey Partos.
Regulator approves GM products as food and feed
In a move that is bound to add more heat to the dispute among EU states over genetically modified organisms, the Europe's food safety regulator has approved a number of products for use within the bloc.
Weekly Comment
A strategy for beating China
As Chinese producers move in on western markets, the first response by many established players is to protect and defend their previous market positions. It's a doomed strategy.
Russian scientists design safer, better preservative
Food scientists in Russia have developed a new, safer preservative for meat and fish that they claim improves resistance to harmful bacteria and could extend shelf-life by up to 50 per cent, offering opportunities to food makers, writes Angela Drujinina.