News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A legal dispute that threatened to derail Campbell Soup’s acquisition of Pacific Foods has been “amicably resolved,” enabling the $700m deal to go through.
Many of the tried-and-true tactics, contracts, marketing strategies and business decisions that fueled growth for most successful businesses to date, will not take companies to the next level or guarantee their survival in the next ten years, suggests...
A Dutch fruit and vegetable producer has installed two x-ray inspection systems from Sapphire.
Spice giant McCormick and Co. is getting a jump start on New Year’s resolutions with an aggressive line-up of goals for improving the livelihoods of its farmers, advancing environmental sustainability and fostering a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
EIT Food is hunting for 40 agri-food start-ups that will catalyse a change in our food system through its EIT Food Accelerator Network.
Farmgate prices went up a bit in 2017, although not as much as farmers hoped, and value-added products continued to dominate companies’ strategy to get more money from raw milk.
Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF), an alliance of scientists and child health advocacy organizations, is calling for urgent action by cereal makers, the FDA and parents to remove high-arsenic cereals off store shelves and out of infants’ diets.
EFSA has given the green light to extend the use of food preservative nisin (E 234) to include unripened cheese and heat-treated meat products.
Supply chain disrupter blockchain technology could improve efficiency, food safety and traceability of meat, but business will need to ditch the paper trail first, a report has claimed.
EFSA and ECDC 2016 annual report on zoonotic diseases
Two EU agencies have warned against complacency when it comes to controlling Salmonella after figures show cases are no longer falling in Europe.
Russia’s largest pork producer, Miratorg, has been hit with an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) on its farm in Belgorod Oblast.
Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE is campaigning for mandatory kilojoule (calorie) labelling on alcoholic beverages, in order to give consumers more information about what they drink.
Antibiotic use on US meat farms is at its lowest level since 2009, according to a report from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Norwegian dairy TINE is investing €77m ($90.8m) in a plant in Ireland for the production of its Jarlsberg cheese.
JAB Holding Company’s path of coffee acquisitions continues with a $361m bid from its subsidiary tea and coffee business, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE), for Malaysia’s OldTown Berhad.
News in Brief
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) and Restek Corporation have announced a distribution partnership.
Barry Callebaut has made available a range of low-sugar chocolate designed to promote an improved nutritional profile to confectionery that doesn’t compromise on taste.
A change in government is unlikely to delay the introduction of an official standard for New Zealand’s mānuka honey industry.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers will serve visiting officials food from Fukushima and other areas hit by 2011’s tsunami to show that the produce is safe.
The Indonesian government and tea industry representatives have embarked on a mission to Europe in attempt to reduce trade barriers and boost tea exports.
Major multinational ingredient firms have continued to invest heavily in Asia-Pacific in 2017, and this has been reflected in our top five most-read supplier stories of the year.
60-second interview: Greg Bach and Angela Lantman, Synergy Flavors
According to Nielsen data* collated by Wells Fargo, US retail sales of ready-to-drink tea rose a modest 1.3% in the year to November 4, 2017, growing somewhat slower than RTD coffee (+11.7%), but faster than carbonated soft drinks, juice, sports drinks...
Australia’s carbonated soft drink sector is continuing to struggle with total volume sales expected to slip by 2.3% this year.
Few companies are heeding the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India's (FSSAI) mandatory instructions to fortify edible oils and packaged milk products.