News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Confirmation that the European scientific world is alive and kicking arrived this week when the Commission announced that it had received over 12,000 'expressions of interest' (EoIs) in response to a call for ideas on promising topics for research.
The fluctuations of the sparkling wine market, which have affected cava as much as Champagne in recent years, have prompted Spain's Codorniu group to expand into other wine regions - most recently the Ribera del Duero.
Swiss fine chemicals company Lonza said today that Martin Ebner's BZ Group Holding plans to sell its 19.8 per cent stake in the business in the coming weeks in a bid to raise cash for the investor group.
Eastman Chemical, Aventis and eight other companies conspired for 17 years to fix the price of sorbates, a widely used food preservative, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a lawsuit.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week that it is to establish a standard of identity for white chocolate. The standard will provide for the use of the term `white chocolate' as the common or usual name of products made from cacao...
The acqusition of Enaco earlier this year has allowed Spain's Caprabo group to quicken the pace of expansion. October alone will see the company open 17 new stores, strengthening its position in the eastern region of Levante.
US Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin said on Friday that a series of massive food recalls in the US this summer underscored the need to reform a "broken" federal food safety system.
Cooking with iron pots could play a significant role in preventing iron deficiency, a major nutritional problem in the developing world, according to a recent study by scientists in the United States. Researchers from Cornell University and the US...
More action is needed from both government and industry alike if the steady decline in French wine exports is to be halted, a junior minister has warned. New World producers could soon take over as the major exporters to Europe if France fails to act.