Advances in the use of LC/MS/MS for the Analysis of Antibiotics in Food
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Bird flu outbreaks will continue to take a toll on Asia's poultry market but there in some areas prices are starting to pick up, said the Food and Agriculture Organization today.
The appeal of salt-reduced food formulations confirmed as fresh figures reveal salt sales are on the decline, finds a new report.
Private label food products, especially refrigerated foods, continue to steadily increase their share of the global marketplace, eating into processors' brands according to ACNielsen.
The UK government will announce plans to ban junk food in the nation's schools, bringing an end to the sale of crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks in school vending machines.
Senator Tom Harkin has called for a radical overhaul of USDA food standards in order to drag them into line with current thinking on obesity and nutrition.
UK scientists are offering food processors risk assessments to help them determine how to keep their products from becoming botulism producing factories.
A new study indicates that processors must chose the toughest packaging they can find for their frozen food products if they hope to retain brand loyalty.
A new intelligent label is designed to protect foods against counterfeiting and tampering, a growing problem for high value products.
The UK's Food Standards Agency has widened the investigation into the outbreak of E. coli food poisoning illness in Wales as parents start calling for a public inquiry.
There is nothing so redolent of a corporate mid-life crisis as the strategic equivalent of a new car, new girl and new image, set firmly on the shoulders of the same old idea. McDonald's, it seems, is firmly in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Canterbury Foods' management is hoping the relaxation of the UK's bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) rules will ease the troubles its meat processing division is facing in a declining market with increasing input prices.
Freezing and thawing tests indicate that coated unbleached kraft paperboard packaging for the food industry stands up better than other products, Graphic Packaging claims.
Novis, the publisher of MeatProcess.com, 22 other business news websites and more than 50 specialist e-newsletters, is today changing its name to Decision News Media, to convey theeditorial ethos that has made the group's news services into market leaders.
Food processors, especially those pasturising egg whites and importing poultry ingredients from abroad, should remain vigilant, according to advice on avian influenza from the EU's food safety regulator.
Danisco's wholly owned subsidiary, Genencor International, is looking to exploit growing opportunities in China's enzymes sector.
A quick method to determine whether meat, milk or other food products are contaminated with microbes uses the "glow-worm" effect.
New recommendations designed to strengthen self-regulation in children's advertising and tackle obesity have been welcomed by Grocery Manufacturers Association.
The food industry is in danger of harming itself with its recent lobbying against the further harmonisation and deepening of EU food regulation.
Demonstrating the hefty cost to food makers of food labelling changes, new rules in Australia will cost about €38 million.
Charoen Pokphand Foods, the leading Thai agribusiness, has taken over the meat processing activities of sister firm C.P. Interfood as part of the group's consolidation in food products.
The UK government's decision to relax its rules on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) will make more beef available to the UK processing market, and potentially the rest of Europe.
New shelf-life guidelines for vacuum-packaging and modified atmosphere products are on the agenda of the UK's food regulator.
Novis, the publisher of MeatProcess.com, 22 other business news websites and more than 50 specialist e-newsletters, is today changing its name to Decision News Media, to convey the editorial ethos that has made the group's news services into market leaders.
Pork remains the mainstay of the UK sausage, but processors are using other combinations of meat and flavours such as duck, orange, lemongrass to tweak the humble banger for more upmarket tastes -- and pockets.
Cutting the chat between bacteria could lead to new food preservation methods, say Danish scientists at a meeting today.
A World Trade Organisation hearing beginning today on the use of growth-boosting hormones could determine whether the EU's processors will have better access to North American meat supplies.
Mixed messages about food are confusing the consumer, delegates at the annual Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) conference will be told.
Improving communications in food science and safety Europe's food agency is calling for feedback from scientific organisations to form a formal scientific network.
UK supply chain company Gist has expanded its refrigerated trucking network to continental Europe by purchasing Netherlands-based G Van Dongen Holdings.
Biodegradable and recycled packaging may soon become viable alternatives for more food companies as the increasing price of plastics begins to be passed on by suppliers, KPMG states in a report.
FPI, Canada's largest seafood company, has bought a UK-based private importer and processor of chilled and frozen shellfish products.
Consumers opt to buy organic food because it tastes better, so claims a recent survey from the UK's organic body the Soil Association, putting increasing pressure on the food makers to perfect their formulations.
The heavy fine levied against a Spanish cooked chicken processor for poisoning 2,700 people with salmonella serves as a warning to plant managers they are on the line for their companies when itcomes to food safety.
A flexible, repeatable leak test system allows the contents of damaged packaging to be reused and for the return of seal-tight products to the processing line.
Daily consumption of soy protein found in tofu and other soybean products may result in a small reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL, known as bad cholesterol) and triglyceride levels.
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