News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The UK food watchdog has extended the already massive recall of food products contaminated by the harmful, and illegal, red food dye sudan 1: but the tailing off of figures suggests the recall may have reached its peak, reports Lindsey Partos.
Indofood, Indonesia's biggest food company, has reported 2004 profits severely hit by the devaluation of the rupiah, but remains hopeful of an upturn in 2005 following efforts to reduce its exposure to exchange rates and the spin off of one of its...
Nearly a third of smoked meats may not meet targets set by Brussels for incoming rules on the levels of potentially carcinogenic PAH compounds.
Ishida Europe is about to unveil a range of multihead weighers specially designed for wet or sticky foods and claimed to be the fastest and most accurate available, Simon Pitman reports.
Cereal and snack producer Kellogg will have the edge over arch-rival General Mills over the next few years as superior innovations in the premium health sector and a more focused product portfolio drive the firm forward, writes Chris Mercer.
Friesland Foods, the Dutch dairy group, is to expand its ingredients operations in Indonesia through the acquisition of a number of assets from a local rival - a move that will allow the group to grow its business there at a fraction of the current...
EU environment experts opt to delay a vote on the entry of a GM sweetcorn into the European food chain, revealing ongoing divisions between member states over biotech food ingredients,writes Lindsey Partos.
Several leading figures in the UK dairy sector have had an industry-wide plan to lower salt levels in cheese approved by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), but is this simply a token gesture to appease healthy food campaigners, Tom Armitage investigates.
China is becoming an increasingly potent force in the worlds food market, with sales continuing to grow each year in line with substantial gains in consumer spending power, writes Chris Jones.