There's something in the water
30-Oct-2006
Slovenian food manufacturer Droga Kolinska, has launched new mineral water brand Donat Mg into the UK.Sourced from the ancient Rogaska spring in...
30-Oct-2006
The products are there, says Sue Scott. But is the public ready for mood food?
30-Oct-2006 By Sarah Britton
Flavours firm Quest's new 'Linking sensory data to acceptance' (LISA) method can accurately predict worldwide taste preferences in record time,...
30-Oct-2006
Time to play by the rules?
LETTER
30-Oct-2006
Money is the turn-on when it comes to lean manufacturing
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
IGD report reveals millions wasted each year from inefficient planning and forecasting
30-Oct-2006 By Allison Carvalho
One in five Europeans will be obese by 2010 thanks to poor diet and lack of exercise. But is the food industry the problem, or the solution? Allison Carvalho reports
30-Oct-2006 By Sarah Britton
Calcium consumption during youth is vital to increase bone density, but with balanced diets off the menu, food enrichment may be the only way to improve calcium levels, says Sarah Britton
30-Oct-2006
Failure to set metal detectors correctly could be widespread
EC agrees to GM tests on US long-grain rice
30-Oct-2006
The European Commission (EC) has agreed to tougher sanctions to prevent unauthorised genetically modified (GM) rice entering the EU after emergency...
Risk team calls for testing of toxicity of nanoparticles
30-Oct-2006
A taskforce set up by the government's Nanotechnology Research Co-ordination Group (NRCG) said that new testing strategies would be needed to address...
UB's buyers offer hope on pensions
30-Oct-2006
The agreed new owners of United Biscuits (UB) have reassured staff that they would plug the company's £213M pension deficit, but have said nothing...
30-Oct-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Study could identify big potential reductions of transport costs
30-Oct-2006
It's a subject we don't like to discuss, but right now gut health is big news for ingredients firms. Rebecca Green looks at the market opportunities
Managers buy TSC
30-Oct-2006
A management team at sauces and soups manufacturer TSC Foods, led by md Brian Dahl and finance director Bill Morran, has acquired the company from...
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
EU sugar reform leads to more restructuring in related market
Firms will invest to boost manufacturing efficiency
30-Oct-2006
Better efficiency will be the primary reason for food and drink manufacturers investing in plant, machinery and buildings in the next year, rather...
Hero fails portion test
30-Oct-2006
Hero Foods will stop selling its Fruit2day drink in the UK after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned claims that the product contained...
Arla slaps a £15M claim on dairies
30-Oct-2006
Six dairies facing Office of Fair Trading (OFT) penalties for price and market fixing in the Scottish fresh processed milk sector now face a £15M...
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
Brewer follows up job cuts in spring with same again at Burton
30-Oct-2006 By Allison Carvalho
The UK is still underdeveloped compared to some other markets in Europe when it comes to cardiovascular health ingredients, says Allison Carvalho
Improve tries to revive apprenticeships
30-Oct-2006
Apprenticeships in food and drink manufacturing and meat and poultry processing have been overhauled from this month to make them more relevant for...
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
No surprise at failure to find a new boss
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
Workers seek high-level political backing to save food and drink jobs in the city
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
Success in functional foods comes from treating shoppers like consumers, not patients, says Elaine Watson
The pie’s the limit with bakery’s £3M investment
30-Oct-2006
Sweet and savoury baker Wrights has invested £3M in modern pie and freezing lines at is main bakery in Crewe, Cheshire.The investment puts the...
30-Oct-2006 By Sarah Britton
Dawnfresh Seafoods expected to cut 70 of its 325 jobs when it transfers some frozen scampi processing to the Far East to save an estimated £1M a...
30-Oct-2006 By Sarah Britton
The Transport and General Workers’ Union (T&G) expected over 500 workers from two Grampian Country Food Group chicken processing plants to go...
Ginsters opens agricultural academy
30-Oct-2006
Cornish pasty giant Ginsters has teamed up with Duchy College to launch the UK’s first agricultural academy - aimed at strengthening supplier...
30-Oct-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Markos Kyprianou, the European Commissioner for health and consumer protection, has entered the front of pack nutrition labelling debate by calling...
No health warnings on booze, says EC
30-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
The European Commission (EC) will not force manufacturers to put cigarette-style health warnings on booze in a bid to tackle binge drinking.In its...
Quiche maker boosts its process team
19-Oct-2006
Quiche manufacturer Thomas Food Group (TFG) has appointed Emma Johnson as a process technologist.Johnson joins the company as a graduate in food...
Fresh campaign boss
19-Oct-2006
The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC), the trade association which supports the UK fruit and vegetable industry, has appointed Anthony Levy as chairman...
16-Oct-2006 By Sarah Britton
Kildare-based cooked meat ingredient firm Dawn Farm Foods has bought cooked bacon processor TMI for an undisclosed sum.TMI, which specialises in...
16-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
Products with a retail value of more than £1.5bn are being ‘dramatically reformulated’ to reduce harmful trans fats, according to new research...
Soy perfectly safe, insist experts
16-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
Scientists have issued a robust defence of soy in the wake of a series of media attacks on the ingredient on both sides of the Atlantic, linking it...
16-Oct-2006 By Sarah Britton
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is expected to issue dairies with new guidance on the use of mouldy cheese, floor sweepings, shavings and gratings...
16-Oct-2006 By Elaine Watson
Private equity firms, which own an increasing number of UK food companies, should be subject to the same employments laws as companies under...
16-Oct-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Experts have warned that consumers may compensate for a reduction of sugar in their diet by consuming more fatty foods, which could undermine...
16-Oct-2006 By Rick Pendrous
Sainsbury boss Justin King has joined the ranks of those calling for consumers to be allowed to decide what form of front of pack nutritional...
03-Oct-2006 By Kevin Bennett
Having established the future vision and baseline, the next critical stage for any Improvement programme is to create a robust action plan. This must...
02-Oct-2006
A new survey from interim management provider Albemarle looks at changing employment trends in the sector. Rebecca Green reports
Grade food by colour
02-Oct-2006
US-based machine vision supplier The Value Engineering Alliance has introduced HueView for the colour analysis of food.HueView can measure colour and...
Woodward keeps cool
02-Oct-2006
High performance composite insulation panels from Kingspan Controlled Environments based on the polymer filling polyisocyanurate, are keeping...
High speed cartoner
02-Oct-2006
Bradman Lake has launched a fast, fully automatic carton end-loader for food packing operations. The SL903 has a running speed of up to 130 cartons...
Processors clean up their act
02-Oct-2006
With flavouring increasingly seen as an unwanted additive by consumers, flavourists are under pressure to develop ranges for 'clean label'...
Masters of disguise mask off-notes
02-Oct-2006
As more and more manufacturers seek to add functional ingredients to their food, the need for flavour houses to develop products that mask off taints...
02-Oct-2006
Proposed changes to legislation governing the use of flavours are causing concern in the industry, with fears they are misguided and could put an end to innovation. Rebecca Green takes a look
02-Oct-2006 By John Dunn
Contract food testing laboratories are battling hard to keep up with demand for faster, more accurate tests. John Dunn reports on their investment in emerging technologies and new equipment
Rapid test kit for Salmonella gives results in 24 hours
02-Oct-2006
Oxoid has extended its range of rapid tests for the detection of Salmonella in foods to include the DuPont Lateral Flow System test kit.This...
