Inside food & drink manufacturing
Leatherhead Food Research (LFR) has confirmed salt reduction in food is reaching its limits, while rejecting claims that the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) had misrepresented its views.
Carr’s Flour has secured £17M to build a modern factory alongside its old flour mill in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has paid nearly £6,000 compensation to a worker who was temporarily blinded by an accident at its Wakefield plant.
Consumer demand is sustaining probiotics sales, despite the blow of the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA's) health claims rejections, say some of industry's main players.
Food will need to become healthier if it’s to satisfy the tastes of tomorrow’s consumers, according to a recent study by ingredients manufacturer Puratos.
Food giant Nestlé has won a place with Morrisons, Coca-Cola Enterprises and 19 other firms on the shortlist for the Food and Drink Federation’s (FDF’s) Community Partnership Awards 2012.
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has given his support for genetic modification (GM) techniques with a £6.3M ($9.8m) grant for research led by the John Innes Centre in Norwich.