News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
German scientists say they have found synthetic caffeine in four beverages on sale that claimed to use wholly natural sources, but say that they developed a simpler test for determining caffeine’s origins that could curtail a ‘high risk’ of fraudulous...
Focus on New Zealand
The EU is still New Zealand’s most important export market for chilled lamb, but the balance is shifting as the country opens up new avenues.
Europol, Europe’s central law enforcement agency, plans to continue its fight against the growing presence of organised crime in areas of food through a repeat of last November’s Europe-wide crackdown on food crime - Operation Opson.
The European Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) is asking China to improve its poultry disease surveillance systems after exposing shortcomings in a report.
Scandinavian confectioner Cloetta has announced the decision to close three of its factories and move production to other sites in a move that will result in 345 job losses.
Focus on New Zealand
In a demanding UK market, flexibility and adapting product to meet changing consumer needs have been key for New Zealand lamb.
Amid sky-high prices and shortages of guar gum driven by an unprecedented surge in demand, food formulators have renewed focus on finding replacers and DuPont is championing use of alternative hydrocolloids.
The UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has told Kellogg to revise claims on its Coco Pops website that suggested sugar was unconnected to obesity, disease development and behavioural problems in children.
Campbell Soup Company will complete the phase out of bisphenol A (BPA) from all its food cans before 2015, an industry insider has told FoodProductionDaily.com.
The development of foods that contain alternating levels of taste intensity in the mouth could lead to reductions in sugar and salt levels, while retaining the same perception as with the original foodstuffs, say researchers from Dutch research group NIZO.
Irish MEP Marian Harkin has become one of the most vocal European parliamentary opponents of the interpretation and application of the EU nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR), and she was not appeased by EC and EFSA statements at a specially...