News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Thai fruit farmers have won a long battle to get their lychees and longans onto the Australian market place, breaking a long ban by Australian authorities which deemed the fruit as a potential pest-carrying hazard to agricultural crops.
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic need to better understand how consumers perceive risk if they are to form better food safety policies. The issue of bioterrorism however is helping to establish a growing consensus among policy makers, argues...
UK supermarket giant Waitrose has emerged as the favourite to pick up the biggest package of Safeway stores from WM Morrison. It is expected to buy up to 25 supermarkets for between £250 million (€374m) and £300 million.
The Canadian subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever Canada joins the growing ranks of manufacturers to cut the trans fatty acid content out of food products.
Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods has been hard hit by increased sales, marketing and distribution costs of widening product portfolio. The Russian dairy giant announced that its net income had fallen 40 per cent, despite a significant increase in its sales.
Spearheading growth in the increasingly mature caramel colour market French starch manufacturer Roquette has teamed up with US colour firm Sethness to target manufacturers in and around central Europe.
People appear to be eternally optimistic when it comes to dieting, always believing that the next diet will lead to weight loss. But the results of a new study suggest that this cycle of dieting will continue as most are not prepared to change their...
Burgeoning Irish food ingredients group carves deeper into the US market announcing it will buy into fast growing 'lifestyle' beverages through the acquisition of two US companies, Oregon Chai and Extreme Foods.
As the FAO continues its calls for caution over bird flu, South Korea announced that a new outbreak of the disease has taken place on a small battery farm just north of the capital, Seoul.
Tesco has raised £640 million (€973) by selling off 33 of its UK stores. The supermarket chain plans to rent the stores on a long leasehold and carry on running the operations, and claims that customers will not see any change.
China's packaging industry is currently undergoing a growth rate that is set to turn the sector into one of the country's leading industries. Fed by the continued growth of the country's food and beverage industry, both domestic and international...
Adding-value in the mature liquorice confectionery market is a key area for growth for this flavouring ingredient and flavour enhancer. With the launch of a new extract last year, German food ingredients company Alfred L. Wolff is looking to extend...