Northern Foods steps up to plate on sustainable palm
Northern Foods subsidiary Green Isle Foods has become the first food manufacturer to use a new pumpable shortening containing certified sustainable palm oil.
Archives for July 25, 2010
Growth and added-value characterise additives market
Emulsifiers, enzymes and hydrocolloids have led growth in the food additives sector over the last five years, according to a new report from Leatherhead, while growth in functional food ingredients is significant.
Nanotechnology in food: What’s the big idea?
Let's get talking about nanotech. The science of the very small has filled the food industry with big ideas – but industry is torn on how to present nanotechnology to consumers, stalling product development.
Study seeks attention-grabbing nutrition labels
A new study has concluded that nutrition labels best attract attention if they are double-sized, monochrome, and appear in the same spot on food packaging.
UK and Irish confectioners target of gold pigment release
UK and Irish confectionery manufacturers can have shelf stand out appeal with a gold pigment, based on silicate combined with titanium dioxide, claims ingredients supplier Azelis/S. Black, which is now distributing the Merck developed colour in those...
No magic bullet to fight Camplyobacter, says UK
There is no “magic bullet” to tackle campylobacter, according to the UK’s the three major public funders of food safety research as they unveiled a joint initiative to battle the bug.