UK to announce school junk food ban
The UK government will announce plans to ban junk food in the nation's schools, bringing an end to the sale of crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks in school vending machines.
Archives for September 27, 2005
Tanzi trial commences as Parmalat points the finger
The trial of Calisto Tanzi, founder of scandal-hit Italian dairy giant Parmalat, commences today amid charges of false accounting and share price manipulation.
EU seeks to break deadlock in banana dispute
A second round of WTO arbitration on the EU's proposal for a new import tariff for bananas could finally put an end to a long-running trade dispute.
EU sugar reform forces CSM to restructure
CSM's sugar beet processing plant in Hoogkerk, the Netherlands is now fully online following the closure of the firm's Breda factory earlier this year.
Scientists double CLA content in cheese
Feeding cows sunflower oil more than doubled levels of conjugated linoleic acids in cheese made from their milk, says new research, improving the fatty acids' potential in functional dairy development.
Risk assessment method developed for food botulism
UK scientists are offering food processors risk assessments to help them determine how to keep their products from becoming botulism producing factories.
Campina outlines CAP reform survival plan
Coping with reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has taken centre-stage for dairy firms across the bloc as Dutch group Campina outlines a plan to swallow more than €80m of losses in aid since 2003.