Latest News in the food Industry

3 Feb 2015

Stevia products producer and marketer PureCircle has released what it claims is the industry’s first comprehensive sustainability report. The report highlights the impact that the company says its vertically integrated supply chain has had on people an...

3 Feb 2015

More consumers are feeling time-scarce and view cooking as a chore, believes market researcher Canadean, turning to convenient ready meals to free up more time for themselves and noting that,  to survive in an increasingly health-conscious society, rea...

3 Feb 2015

OmniActive Health Technologies is to introduce Gingever High Potency Ginger. Non-GMO and allergen-free Gingever is a high-potency super-critical fluid extract with 30% bioactives (min 20% gingerols) made from an FDA-acknowledged GRAS (Generally Regarde...

3 Feb 2015

Barry Callebaut has announced the Barry Callebaut FullFill Factory. Designed to answer the increasing need of personalisation and flexibility for both small and large food manufacturers alike, the FullFill Factory is said to create added value through ...

2 Feb 2015

US supermarket chains Albertsons and Safeway have formally announced the completion of their planned merger, with the former acquiring the latter for a reported $9+ billion in what is said to be the largest ever deal of its kind and making the combined...

2 Feb 2015

Recent studies have shown that added sugars, particularly those containing fructose, are a principal driver of diabetes and pre-diabetes, even more so than other carbohydrates. Clinical experts writing in Mayo Clinic Proceedings challenge current dieta...

2 Feb 2015

Penford has announced that 99% of its its shareholders voted to approve the previously announced merger with Ingredion under which Ingredion will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Penford for approximately $340 million. The transaction closing r...

2 Feb 2015

Dairy Crest has announced that following a drop in its March milk price, there will be no further reductions to its farmgate milk price before July. The company says it is the first processor in the British dairy sector to introduce a ‘price floor’ tha...

30 Jan 2015

Israeli company ICL’s Food Specialties business unit is to acquire Prolactal, and its subsidiary, Rovita. Prolactal, based in Hartberg, Austria, and Engelsberg, Germany, is a European producer of dairy proteins and other ingredients for the food and be...

30 Jan 2015

As the food and beverage industry looks for ways to take genetically modified organisms (GMOs) out of recipes and off labels, Corbion is adding another non-GMO product to its emulsifier portfolio. The newest addition, Emplex Non GMO, was developed to d...

30 Jan 2015

As part of a recent overall safety process and formulation review initiated by Kalsec, a thermal inactivation study on Salmonella was performed on carrot pellets at an outside laboratory using a scaled representation of the proprietary Kalsec extractio...

30 Jan 2015

Stevia First has announced what it says is an important achievement and addition to its stevia production technologies. The company says it has successfully developed novel fermentation methods to produce steviol, a key step in the production of all st...