EU competition authority approves Moy Park sale
Moy Park’s sale to Brazilian meat processing giant JBS has been approved by the EU’s competition authority.
Archives for September 27, 2015
SE Asia dairy focus
America's dairyland to Thailand: Sizeable growth in ingredients
Grassland, a Wisconsin butter products company, is seeing fast expansion in a Southeast Asian market that is now demanding a wide range of ingredients. "It is a very positive market for US dairy," says sales manager Greg Rodriguez.
SE Asia dairy focus
American dairy's newest frontier
Southeast Asia is now America's second biggest market after Mexico, and is the centre of a growth trend that is set to continue. Dali Ghazalay, the US industry's regional representative, talks about the reasons for this rise and the challenges exporters...
Dedicated followers of fashion
Pan-Asia food distributors must keep their finger on the pulse of industry trends. DPO's country head takes a look at the segments that will be big business over the coming year.
Recruitment's war of attrition
With three out of 10 food industry jobs becoming vacant each year in Thailand, companies face a significant challenge in finding staff, and then retaining them in an employees' market.
Dietary fat plays vital role in inflammatory response and obesity related disease risk
The type of dietary fat we eat may lead to changes in our inflammatory response, which in turn play a key role in long term risk of obesity-related diseases including diabetes and atherosclerosis, warn researchers.
SE Asia dairy focus
Thai tastes meet the heat through dairy flavours
Although not a newcomer to Southeast Asia, American cheese and diary ingredient manufacturer DairiConcepts is determined to break new ground. Its strategy is to bring innovation to Thailand while beating off competitors with less experience in the region.
Expo East in review
Enjoy Life Foods elevates baking mixes with in-demand, functional ingredients
Retailers that initially warned Enjoy Life Foods not to enter the baking mix segment are now clamoring to stock the manufacturer’s new line of five ready-to-use mixes in large part because they go beyond the convenience of competitors to include hot...
Innovation nation: DSM's success centre in Singapore
Ingredients major DSM has ramped up its regional development work with the opening of an innovation centre in Singapore this year. Central to its operation is an understanding that Asian physiology is different, says Haeri Roh-Schmidt, the company's...
Expo East in review
Flapjacked meets demand for more protein with easy-to-make pancake and muffin mixes
High protein, easy-to-eat foods are no longer limited to bars and shakes – now they can also be found in familiar baked goods that appeal to carb-loving consumers, thanks to companies like Flapjacked.
Nanotek group opposes changes to EU novel foods rules
Mooted changes to EU novel food laws that will cater for new ingredient sources like insects and food making methods like nanotechnology are ‘vague, unclear and unworkable’ according to a leading nanotechnology group.
Sweden sees fall in pork imports
Bad publicity in Sweden for the pig meat sector in the past year – including television programmes critical of industry welfare and public debates over the heavy usage of antibiotics and tail-docking of piglets in the European Union (EU) – have depressed...
BASF and Genomatica expand BDO process for packaging to SE Asia
BASF and Genomatica have expanded their license agreement to produce 1,4-butanediol based on renewable feedstock (renewable BDO), from North America to Southeast Asia.
Berries may enhance motor performance and improve cognition, says study
Strawberries and blueberries may boost brain health by enhancing motor performance and improving working memory, says a new study.
India's newfound taste for flavours
India's flavour market has changed substantially in a very quick time. Changing demographics really have been making a difference in this segment as tastes become more international and discerning.
Ancient, yet modern? Sacha inchi and hemp give formulators new options in plant-based proteins
Hemp and sacha inchi – two ‘ancient yet modern’ sources of protein from seeds – are gaining traction in the burgeoning plant-based protein set, although their premium price tag means they are unlikely to become as big as rice or pea protein – at least in...
Fresh approach for Belgian meat
The willingness to explore new markets and flexibility has helped Belgium become the seventh-biggest exporter of pig meat in the world. Aidan Fortune examines the Belgian meat market.
Coloring Food with food: Will EU regulations spur a global shift to natural colors in confectionery?
Confectioners to ditch non-artificial additive colors as EU rules enter full force, says GNT
Coloring Foods supplier GNT says the global confectionery market will rapidly move away from artificial and additive colors as an implementation period to conform with EU rules on colors looms.
Andrew and Williamson makes donation to STOP Foodborne illness
An ‘absolutely devastated’ produce firm linked to an outbreak of Salmonella from cucumbers is to make a donation to STOP Foodborne Illness.
FDE announces new industry commitment for healthy diets
FoodDrinkEurope will continue to take a ‘holistic’ approach to improving the health of Europeans with a new commitment to trigger further industry action on making food healthier, it says.
Meat cut preferences are more important than price or origin
Consumers prefer certain cuts of meat – and origin labelling or price discounts may not affect this,researchers have found.
EU project aims to slash food waste by 30% by 2025
A new EU-funded research project involving partners across the EU, as well as in China, will help reduce food waste by 30% by 2025, say those behind the project.
Spanish traceability controls missed ‘serious, systematic deficiencies’ - FVO
While the Spanish competent authorities found some non-compliances in traceability of meat they did not detect a number of more serious, systematic deficiencies, according to the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO).
MALDI-TOF MS subject of PHE draft standard
Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization – time of flight (MALDI-ToF) mass spectrometry is to be added to Public Health England’s (PHE’s) standard microbiological test methods.
Fonterra lifts FGMP forecast after increase in global dairy prices
Fonterra has increased its farm gate milk price (FGMP) forecast for the 2015/16 season following a recent lift in global dairy prices.
Iodine excess linked to thyroid disease in lactating women
Excessive iodine intake may cause thyroid disease in lactating women and should be monitored as closely as deficiency, Chinese research of 343 women has said.