News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
If food scientists really want to stop the ‘lunatic fringe’ from hi-jacking the debate on topics from nanotechnology and irradiation to GM, they should stop wringing their hands and blaming the media and seize back the initiative, according to the author...
A flurry of seizures, criminal charges, and warning letters shows that FDA is increasing it enforcement of dietary supplement regulations. Good for FDA and good for industry!
Special edition - Functional food trends
The functional food market in the US has grown 31 percent since 2006, with beverages leading the charge, according to a new report from Leatherhead Food Research.
The overall perception of food labels are ‘very similar’ for consumers across cultural divides, with key messages well understood by consumers from countries with different cultural backgrounds.
Brussels should step in to break the decade-long deadlock over the setting up of a mandatory registry for nanomaterial-containing products, said the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).
The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) is calling for entries to its biodiversity awards which will be presented at Food Ingredients Europe later on this year.
The Danish government has clarified that Marmite is not in fact banned, but merely in need of a marketing authorisation as per European Union health claim rules.
An improved service to Moroccan flour millers and better logistics will result from Cargill’s inauguration of a 67,000t grains storage facility close to the port of Casablanca, claims the company.
Taurine, an ingredient most famously linked to energy drinks, may help reduce levels of acrylamide in foods, suggests new research from China.
Following weeks of uncertainty, Germany said Friday that beansprouts are almost certainly the source of the deadly outbreak of E.coli 0104:H4 that has killed 35 and sickened 3,256.