When the flowing gets tough ...
Endress+Hauser has introduced the Promag 55S electromagnetic flowmeter for tough metering jobs in food and beverage manufacture. With a high...
Archives for December 27, 2006
Obesity is a large topic
Happy New Year! I hope it was a good festive season for everybody.Now, of course, is that time of year when indulgent food sales plummet and...
Fraud squad allays meat industry's fears
The Food Standards Agency has reassured meat industry chiefs that its Food Fraud Task Force (FFTF) won't make life difficult for legitimate...
Chilled fresh foods turn up the heat on frozen
Speed, flexibility and shelf-life extension are the priorities for chilled ready meal manufacturers in their sales battle with frozen foods, as Michelle Knott discovers
Hue and cry over phytonutrients
As EFSA called for a reassessment of the safety of 45 authorised colourings used in food, Allison Carvalho looks at the potential health-giving properties of existing products
Trade Talk
Ofcom rules make nonsense of nutrition
Food miles tax is the answer
The world's supply chain managers should brace themselves for government intervention as high oil prices and shortages become permanent, with no...
Soya shakes up menopause
Soya may have a positive effect on the cognitive function of menopausal women, according to new research.In a study conducted by Dr Louise Dye, a...
Pastry product makes profit roll
Dawn Foods is offering bakers an easy shortcut to making choux pastry products. The company's marketing director Maggie Dagostino explains: "Many of...
Farm to fork gets a boost
Cornwall. Home to beaches, pasties ... and food manufacturing. Rebecca Green reports on the latest venture from Duchy College, aimed at encouraging this growing industry
EU support needed to boost bioplastics market share
The arguments putting bio-based packaging on a par with biofuels in Europe, and so justifying EU regulatory and fiscal support, are filtering through...
Playground currency
Edinburgh fruit snacks company Snapz Crisps has shaken hands with Tesco on a deal worth almost £500,000. Over the next year the firm will supply...
Bramley fortunes
Changing shift patterns caused a big upheaval at Fourayes, but it was all worth it in the end, says Phil Acock
Ready for ready meal rush
Chiltern Thermoforming made sure it was ready to handle the Christmas and New Year rush of orders for bespoke plastic food containers.It had recently...
Fibre for foodservice sets an example for multiple retailers
The launch of a Kraft board salad tray for Pret A Manger, and the promise of new fibre-based packaging in the spring with even broader applications,...
Goodie, goodie yum yums back
Finsbury Foods has finally struck a deal to contract out production of yum yums to M&L Foods' Chelmsford factory following a fire at Finsbury's...
Fears over lack of resources at Health Protection Agency
Monitoring foodborne diseases is hampered
Ozone eaters
The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transport, according to a new report from the UN Food & Agriculture...
Investigation of 'gene diets' may fuel calls for closer control
Genuinely personalised nutrition is still a long way off, say experts, as firms defend claims
RHM HQ staff to go?
The proposed £1.2bn acquisition of RHM by Premier Foods is likely to lead to head office job losses rather than factory closures, analysts have...
Thai birds boss hits out
Stop squawking and start selling, chicken importer tells UK critics
Beauty claims 'only skin deep'
Rapidly growing sector needs more science-based proof, claims nutriceuticals expert
Research boost
1.2M cash to aid Yorkshire food projects
Healthy doesn't always mean low-fat, says biscuit maker
Consumer insight research conducted by Northern Foods has revealed a revolution in the characteristics consumers associate with health food.Before...
Rugger me! Energy drink brings relief to sports team
Athletes need no longer get in a sweat now that Glanbia Nutritionals has developed a ready-to-mix recovery drink. The ingredients firm has created...
The good ship provenance
One word which ranks high in a Google search of 2006 food buzzwords would have to be 'provenance'. In December I was at a conference discussing this...
Sweet move for supply chain
Cadbury subsidiary Monkhill Confectionery this month goes live with a mid-range preconfigured food and beverage enterprise resource planning (ERP)...
Kellogg's healthy tips to dodge media flak
The only way for food manufacturers to avoid media flak over health issues is to avoid token gestures and act with integrity, according to cereal...
Sudan 1 taught us all lessons, says FSA
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has admitted that it needs to learn lessons from the way it handled the Sudan 1 contamination recalls in 2005, which...
Bakery food waste - it's a gas
Waste management company F & R Cawley has partnered with renewable energy business Bedfordia Biogas to divert over 30,000t of food waste a year...
UV light cleans up food waste water
A new technology developed at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen removes 100% of contaminants from food processing waste water using an...
Safety row escalates
Ready meal manufacturer defends record as demo is threatened
Campylobacter named as the new food super bug of Europe
Poultry-linked disease proves resistant to 80% of all commonly used human antibiotics