News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Five companies and two trade organizations have joined a lawsuit against members of the corn refining industry in an attempt to stop them from claiming that high fructose corn syrup is a natural corn sugar.
US retail sales of cooking sauces and marinades are expected to surge 19 percent between 2010 and 2015 as consumers continue to save cash by preparing more meals at home, according to new research from Mintel.
Industry, not government, should take ultimate responsibility for the safety of imported ingredients, said a presenter at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) general meeting in New Orleans.
Certificates, mass balance and fully segregated palm oil options are not mutually exclusive, but all serve to ensure flexibility in an extremely complex supply chain, claims GreenPalm.
A new partnership between UK research bodies, universities and food companies is preparing to bridge the skills gap in the UK food industry with post-graduate training on meeting challenges posed by national and global food security.
Savoury aromas may help to boost salt reduction strategies by masking the tastes of sodium replacers such as potassium chloride, according to a new study from Unilever scientists.
Frutarom has reported a strong start to the year as the recovering economy and restocking trend brought organic sales growth, but has warned that it will continue to “act determinedly” over its selling prices when raw material costs require.
A year after the Gulf oil spill caused a fishery disaster in the region, FDA’s Don Kraemer of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) says steps taken to ensure seafood safety have worked.
Dispatches from the ISA conference
Food and drink manufacturers are ‘shooting themselves in the foot’ by continually advertising products with ‘no artificial’ labels, says Hans Heezen, chairman of the International Sweetener Association.
DSM is at the very early stages of development of a product enabling people intolerant to gluten to eat their favorite foods but digest the gluten in them more effectively.
Beverage giant Coca-Cola is setting up a new division in North America to oversee the company’s global sustainability vision, strategies, and goals for 2020.