Kerry says brewers face major barley quality and supply challenge
European brewers have a fight on their hands to source quality malting barley during 2011, according to industry ingredient supplier Kerry.
Archives for February 3, 2011
Industry is missing energy shot potential in Europe, says analyst
Risk aversion and a failure to learn the marketing lessons from the US have frustrated the market for energy shots in Europe, according to a new report.
FSA to launch probe into ‘may contain’ labelling
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) plans to take a closer look at the prevalence of ‘may contains’ allergen advisory labeling.
Unilever Q4: Sales up 5.1%; but operating margins hit by commodity price hikes
Unilever has beat analysts' expectations with a 5.1% rise in underlying sales in the fourth quarter, but said operating margins were dented by commodity price hikes.
It's time to take the politics out of food ...
The media described the recent incident concerning dioxin in pork and egg products from animals fed with dioxin-contaminated feed as ‘a scandal’. But this is compounded by the needless and wasteful slaughter of expensively reared animals and the...
Metabolic typing may bring dawn of personalised nutrition
Personalized nutrition – seen by many as the future of nutrition – may take a step closer as scientists apply the metabolomics approach to identify individual metabolic ‘types’.
PoleStar Foods staff demand answers from Privet Capital
Angry staff at PoleStar Foods’ desserts factory in Okehampton are looking for answers from bosses as to why they are now out of a job just weeks after being told the site’s future had been secured “for many years to come”.