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The French organic sector is booming but domestic supply can’t meet demand for key ingredients. The industry is therefore hoping that Macron’s farm-to-fork review will step in to provide assistance - and hopefully some of the €5bn set aside in funds.
Cocoa trader Touton has partnered with Ghanaian government agency Cocobod to curb deforestation in Ghana, where cocoa is the main driver of 3.2% of protected forest loss each year.
Flavour giant Givaudan will source 90% of its raw materials of natural origin according to its in-house criteria for responsible sourcing by 2020, it says.
Sugar industry body CEDUS Le Sucre has attacked what it described as “unacceptable” and “damaging” moves from the French government to “scapegoat” the sugar industry as legislators put in place moves to amend the country’s sugar tax.
Israeli flavour and fine ingredients firm Frutarom are now the owners of nutritional ingredients specialists Enzymotec in a €144m ($168m) deal for the remaining 81% of company shares.
Nearly half of all consumers class low-sugar or sugar-free products as “extremely” or “very” important when deciding what to eat or drink with similar results for products free from genetically modified (GMO) ingredients.
Eurofins Scientific has invested more than €22m in an 9,500 m2 extension to its food testing laboratory in Nantes, next to its first-ever site.
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Anton Paar USA is targeting a 20% increase in revenue in 2018.
The Republic of Ireland, France and the UK have joined forces to boost lamb consumption among 25-35 year-olds in Europe.