Mondelēz abandons Kenyan manufacturing
Mondelēz International will stop manufacturing from its Cadbury Kenya plant at the end of this month as it shifts capacity for Cadbury Drinking Chocolate to Egypt.
Archives for October 5, 2014
Repeat exposure: No need for low salt diet to alter salt preferences
Multiple exposures to lower salt foods could encourage consumers to prefer them, even when they are consuming a high salt diet, according to new research.
Study estimates global burden of listeriosis
‘Urgent efforts’ needed to fill Listeria data gap in developing countries: WHO study
Listeriosis caused 23,150 illnesses, 5,463 deaths, and 172,823 disability-adjusted life-years in 2010, according to estimates in a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
New agriculture commissioner to review supermarket ‘unfair practices’
Nominated European Union (EU) agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan has promised an urgent review of "unfair practices" by supermarkets, which can hold meat producers to price ransom when negotiating with farmers.
FoodNavigator 2015: What’s on our editorial calendar?
From developments in fats and flavours, to the latest trends in fighting obesity, food for kids, and protein, FoodNavigator's special editions calendar for 2015 spans the hottest topics for the European food and drink industry.
Nestlé CEO: ‘We have more headwinds; we just have to wake up half an hour earlier’
Tough markets and cautious optimism were among the main themes in presentations from the biggest food and consumer goods companies in Europe last month, according to investment analysis firm Sanford C. Bernstein.
Tate & Lyle unveils Claria, a functional clean label starch that performs like a modified one
Tate & Lyle has unveiled CLARIA, a new range of functional clean-label starches that are claimed to perform as well as their modified counterparts, enabling firms to deliver cleaner labels on a broader range of products without compromising taste,...
Naturex seeks new sustainability pathways
A year after publishing its 'Sustainability Principles' Naturex reveals its targets for the coming years in the 'Pathfinder', the company’s sustainability report.
Rabobank report gives positive new for global beef industry
Rabobank’s Beef Quarterly Q3 report provided "largely positive news" with global beef supply continuing to tighten.
UK's traffic light label is 'negative', says Commission
The UK’s traffic light label has incited more objections than the Nordic keyhole system because the former is more negative in its nutrition guidance, says the European Commission.
Can an apple a day keep obesity away?
Non-digestible compounds found in some types of apples, and especially in Granny Smith apples, could help to fight obesity by re-establishing the balance of a disturbed microbiota, say researchers.
Thermo Fisher Scientific boosts checkweighing for food can lines
Thermo Fisher Scientific has unveiled a checkweigher targeting high-rate food can lines.
Ingredion ties up with Desert King International to take natural foaming agents to a global audience
Ingredion has struck a deal with Desert King International (DKI) to become the exclusive global distributor of DKI's natural foaming agents from Quillaja saponaria (the soapbark tree) and Yucca schidigera (the Mohave yucca plant) for use in food and...
Albania’s control of egg production backed in FVO audit
Albania’s official controls on egg quality for EU export are satisfactory but the certification system requires refining, according to a Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) audit.
Wine Vision probes risks and rewards of new wine markets
Wine Vision organizer Andrew Reed says the 2014 conference will explore how to attract new consumers to wine and tap emerging market growth with margins are squeezed elsewhere.