News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Guelph Food Academy classes begin next month
The Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, has launched an expanded online interactive food safety training program for food industry professionals.
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The MD of Danish ‘fine waters’ brand Iskilde insists that such products cannot be both ubiquitous and exclusive and believes that ‘less pure’ waters are often the most interesting.
Powerful Yogurt has officially launched what it claims is the first high-protein drink made with a Greek yogurt base.
'Consumers are willing to pay more for better quality as long as that quality is tangible'
Not so long ago, “people would have said that any drink that’s above three bucks is crazy,” says the co-founder of organic and ‘raw’ coconut water pioneer Harmless Harvest, Justin Guilbert. “Well we came to the market with a 16oz bottle that retailed at...
Hong Kong has proposed banning nutrition claims on infant formula products over concerns they mislead consumers and discourage breastfeeding.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Azerbaijan’s National Confederation of Entrepreneurs are raising awareness of benefits from modern food safety systems.
Australia
An alliance of industry food and beverage associations has waded into speculation that the New South Wales government will introduce a cash-for-containers recycling scheme after a Sydney newspaper reported that the state’s premier was backing such an...
A rapidly deteriorating nationwide shortage of butchers, meat cutters and labourers is threatening the Canadian meat industry, according to the Canadian Meat Council (CMC).
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has identified risk factors and recommended possible mitigation measures for some pathogens in bulb and stem vegetables, and carrots.
Invisible Sentinel’s Veriflow diagnostic technology has been adopted for use by Silliker in its laboratories worldwide.
French flavour firm Nactis Flavours has signed an agreement to acquire Belgian flavours company Robertet Savoury.
Multivac Marking & Inspection has filed a patent application for alternative safety concepts for cross web labellers based on an intelligent distance monitoring device.
Although demand for foreign animal protein from China is strong, the path to success for Western exporters is likely to remain complex and challenging, according to a new Rabobank report.
"We hope to develop a pill for fexaramine within 24 to 36 months to try in humans."
The mainstream press has latched onto a mouse study that shows a bile-controlling, gut restricted pharma intervention can mimic food intake and therefore potentially be an obesity beater. But could it pass clinical inspection? One weight loss researcher...
Ready-to-eat grain-based dessert manufacturers in the US must do more to reformulate cakes, donuts, pastries, pies and cookies because there has been little change between 2005 and 2012, researchers warn.
Healthy Beverage Innovation
For the makers of Fire Cider, an apple cider vinegar-based supplement and drink concentrate, keeping the Earth healthy is just as important as helping people stay healthy.
Exports of UK fruit and vegetable juice have increased by about 40% since 2010 - but the country must shake its island mentality if it wants this growth to continue, says a Mintel analyst.
Dutch food company Wessanen has completed the sale of its French wholesale fruits and vegetables business Bio-Distrifrais for an undisclosed sum.
Eating more whole grains may be linked to a reduced risk of mortality, especially in deaths due to heart disease, say researchers.
Brand manufacturers must work hard to decommoditise their products to beat competition from private labels, says an analyst at IRI.
The European Union (EU) is to allow imports of sheep and goat meat from Ukraine, which could prove an added incentive to develop production of these types of meat in the country, market participants have claimed.
New research investigating the link between red meat consumption and cancer risk has suggested that a specific sugar molecule known as Neu5Gc could promote inflammation and tumour growth.
Malta has launched a food and nutrition action plan in response to the World Health Organization’s Health 2020 policy framework – becoming the first European nation to do so.
New Zealand
New Zealand scientists believe that feijoa and blackberry extracts could be central to the development of new treatments for inflammatory bowel disease after the two fruits came top of a field of 12 others in terms their anti-inflammatory and...