News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
ASR Group-owned Tate & Lyle Sugars is considering legal action against The Guardian newspaper over a story published this week accusing the sugar giant of working with a Cambodian supplier that employed child labour among other human right abuses.
South Africa’s meat trading body has lodged an official complaint against local chicken producers with the country’s Competition Commission.
Inventive responses to a future population explosion will be vital for successful food distributors, according to Frost & Sullivan.
Major Finnish meat company Atria has signed a preliminary agreement to purchase meat slaughtering, meat cutting and meat procurement operations from another Finnish meat business.
An outbreak of salmonella which led to 134 people being sickened has been declared over by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
An international consortium of researchers attempting to build a synthetic version of the yeast genome by 2017 could help academics and industry to reduce food waste and improve processing efficiency, according to the team behind the project.
Kellogg says it takes palm oil sourcing extremely seriously and is defending its joint venture with Wilmar International after accusations that the Asian agri giant is involved in illegal palm oil activities.
Snacking frequency is not related to BMI, according to a new study published in Public Health Nutrition.