News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The long journey to European Union acceptance for the natural, intense sweetener, steviol glycoside, shortened significantly yesterday when the EU’s 27 member states backed its safety at a European Commission (EC) committee meeting.
A crisis management network offering a multi-country approach has been launched to tackle global supply chain issues in the food and drink market.
The system for assessing new GM crops with nutritional and environmental benefits must be improved to reduce the time and expense of gaining approvals and enable smaller players to get a look in, according to one leading academic.
The stevia industry has not yet lived up to expectations - but it will, as more companies and consumers look to the sweetener as the answer to many American health problems, claims president and CEO of SweetLeaf Jim May.
Testing for marine biotoxins in shellfish has come into the 21st century after the European Commission decided to ditch the unreliable mouse bioassay in favour of a chemical method, said Thermo Fisher Scientific.
EFSA health claim opinion
French cranberry firm Pharmatoka says the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) failed to assess its submitted urinary tract infection (UTI) health claim wording, which was the very same as that approved by the French Food Agency (ANSES) in 2004.
Salt fortified with both iodine and iron may help to improve iron status in populations where fortification of other staple foods does not achieve the desired coverage, according to a new study.
Danish supplier Chr Hansen is reaping the benefits of more than 10 years researching genomics and bioinformatics of its probiotic and other bacterial strains, with inhouse analysis that can cost less than €1000 per strain.
National Starch is looking to expand the reach of its starch-based pulp replacer Precisa Pulp 02 to a wider variety of exotic fruit juice drinks.
Almost $89m will be pumped into Dannon’s Minster yogurt plant in Ohio over the next three years as parent company Danone attempts to step up a gear and drive US yogurt sales beyond the 10 percent annual growth it has notched up over the past seven or...
A continued rise in raw material costs will hit lower first half earnings, says bakery ingredients giant CSM in a trading update, with price hikes not enough to offset the surge.
A newly developed printing technology could produce personalised, three dimensional chocolate products, according to researchers.
Asahi is to proceed with two Australian and New Zealand soft drinks deals, with the aim of becoming one of the world’s top food and beverage companies.