Latest news in the food and nutraceutical industry

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...

29 Jan 2015

The Belgian government’s Scientific Committee and the Superior Health Council have been asked to give advice on the potential risks (hazards) associated with the consumption of these insects (entomophagy), and have produced a report. In the search for ...

29 Jan 2015

Members of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) – the voice of the food and drink manufacturing industry in the UK – have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 35%, ahead of the original target date of 2020. Emissions have fallen by 664,...

29 Jan 2015

ODIN is a 4 year collaborative project with partners from all over Europe and one from the USA. The coordinator of the project is UCC and other Irish partners include the Daithi O’Murchu Marine Research Station, UCD, Crème Software Ltd (Dublin) a...

29 Jan 2015

Salmonella is a food-poisoning bacterium which, despite our best efforts, won´t go away, notes Campden BRI; it has been recorded as causing illness since 1885. Although a significant reduction in contamination associated with eggs and poultry has been ...

28 Jan 2015

BASF has increased its production capacities for vitamin A by 25 %. The company has expanded an existing plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, which is part of BASF’s Citral Verbund. With this capacity extension, BASF says it reacted to the rising demand for...