News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
In US basketball lingo they call it playing small ball. Frutarom, which supplies flavors, fragrances and dietary supplement ingredients, has grown to one of the world’s largest companies in the category by acquiring many of the smallest firms.
RGF Environmental Group has upgraded its patented PHI Food Surface Sanitation Tunnel treatment system and said it is looking to branch out into other markets.
Research is where it all begins for most fields and it can be true for food safety as well. A lot of what we have today spent some time at this stage before mass acceptance. FQN highlights some recent examples.
Bricks & mortar retailers that don’t embrace online food delivery services such as InstaCart risk being left behind in the new on demand economy, says the CEO of San Francisco-based specialty food retailer Andronico’s.
Responding to consumers’ desire to know more about where their food comes from and how it is made, King Arthur Flour is launching a flour made from certified seeds that makes it easier to trace from farm to table.
Think Jerky is bringing the 100-calorie pack to the hugely popular jerky category as a way to make the snack even more portable and to help consumers better reflect on what and how much they eat.
China’s top regulator for food safety has said overuse of antibiotics is a “prominent problem” for the country’s meat industry and has called for agriculture and meat processors to do more to reduce traces of antibiotics.
Non-alcoholic and low alcohol beers only account for a small proportion of the global beer market. However, these categories are showing stronger growth than the overall beer market, according to figures from Canadean.
Taiwan’s regulators plan to revise food labelling requirements in July after a period of public consultation.
Public seminars in Japan on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) final rules drew the largest audiences to date, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Boulder Brands co-founder Steve Hughes - who resigned from the firm last summer - has teamed up with private equity firm Trilantic North America to form Sunrise Strategic Partners, which will provide growth capital and expertise to emerging brands in the...
While most butter alternatives come in spreadable form in plastic containers, MELT Organic’s 'Buttery Sticks' will resemble conventional, paper-wrapped sticks of butter.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have backed plans to allow an extra 70,000 tonnes of duty-free Tunisian olive oil into the EU to help Tunisia's country – but it has been met with opposition from European producers despite safeguards aimed at...
Mars recall
Mars Chocolate’s recall of Mars and Snickers bars in up to 55 countries could cost millions of pounds, warns legal firm Roythornes.
Nearly 8000 French consumers have signed a petition on Change.org calling for mandatory country of origin labelling for processed meat products.
Technological advancements and dietary changes have been targeted to meet EU climate targets that require deep cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a study has identified.
South Korea has seen the volume of snack foods imported into the country almost double over the last decade to 121,100 tonnes last year.
Internationally renowned physician and New York Times Best Selling Author Dr. Joseph Mercola featured as keynote speaker at the Healthy & Natural Show, May 5-7, at Chicago’s Navy Pier.
Private label sales now account for almost one in every ten dollars spent at Sprouts stores, the Phoenix-based retailer revealed this week after posting better-than-expected Q4 results.
The need to minimize health risks posed by harmful substances in medicines or foods has spurred sample preparation and testing, according to Intertek.
The US and the European Union have entered into a twelfth round of negotiations in Brussels over establishing non-tariff trade for a number of choice products, including processed meats.
A recipe for making bread that could help diabetics better control blood glucose has been developed by food scientists from the National University of Singapore.
Far East in focus
Korean research has found that a higher intake of sugar from fruit and milk during adolescence can reduce the risk of obesity later in life.