News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
As increasing numbers of national governments worldwide toy with new legal frameworks for genetically modified foodstuffs, the global food labelling body Codex Alimentarius will table the issue at an upcoming meeting in Montreal.
The key ingredient in the most popular ice cream in the world faces a rise in price, already at a 10 year high, as the worst cyclone in two decades hits Madagascar, the leading producer of vanilla.
European food ingredients companies working in the rapidly emerging Chinese food market can look forward to getting a slice of the €135 billion trade exchange between the two blocs.
Britain's biggest food retailer Tesco looks set to take a further step towards its goal of competing with global giants such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart with a move into the massive Chinese retail market.
The health benefits of green tea dovetail into sleep as researchers in Japan find an amino acid located in green tea could improve slumber in young men.
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) is launching a programme to help food manufacturers address issues such as obesity, nutrition and food safety. Entitled HOW - health, obesity and well-being - the programme offers consultancy, development and...
Trade in food and beverage products is expected to grow significantly on the back of an agreement made between China and Vietnam which will end tariffs on nearly 500 seafood and agricultural products during the course of the next four years.
Vietnam is seeking to import between 500,000 to 600,000 tonnes of corn for feed as it moves to restock poultry flocks hit by the outbreak of bird flu earlier this year, even though the FAO has warned the country not to resume poultry farming too...
Fearing the invasion of the devasting soybean rust, the American Soybean Association (ASA) has repeated its call for a temporary ban on South American soybean imports, despite assurances from the Bush administration that trade would not be the cause...
Comforting news for parents as survey of infant formula by the UK's food watchdog finds levels of harmful chemicals, dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in infant formula have fallen significantly over the past five years and are...
China claims to have had an early success in stamping out the bird flu that has been causing severe hardships to the country's numerous poultry farmers, after the mass culling of some nine million birds over the seven weeks since the first outbreak.