News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
News-makers in the food world may have been on the quiet side this week, but the year is not quite over at FoodNavigator. For our last newsletter of the year, we gazed into our editorial crystal ball to predict what we think will be swaying...
With a larger crop and only modest growth in use, prices are expected to fall in 2011, according to Rabobank in its latest Agri Commodity market report. However further escalation of conflict in the Ivory Coast could send cocoa prices higher.
The Government Accountability Project (GAP) has praised the inclusion of whistleblower protections in the food safety bill, which is expected to be signed into law by President Obama early in the New Year.
The frozen foods industry in the United States has boomed over the past few years – and growth in the sector looks set to continue in 2011, according to a new report from Packaged Facts.
Lightening the colour of whole grain breads could make products more appealing to consumers who would otherwise be more inclined to buy refined wheat bread products, indicates a new study.
Techniques such as 3D printing, elctrospinning, and laser sintering could work together as one process, to produce whole products from raw components like algae protein, fat and starch, TNO predicts.
A San Francisco appeals court has put on hold until February 28 a previous court order to destroy genetically modified (GM) sugar beets being grown to provide seed for the 2012 crop.
A Canadian company is seeking partners to commercialise a cancer-fighting technology that has been adapted to destroy Listeria monocytogenes.
Pinova Holdings Inc. has bought the flavors and fragrances business of the chemicals, refining and plastics company LyondellBasell, in a transaction that closed on Wednesday.