Prepared food and meat processing

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Weekly  From 14/01/2008 to 18/01/2008 Forward to a colleague

Financial



Glanbia offloads meat production for innovation aims
Glanbia has entered into negotiations over selling its meat processing business as it looks to focus on diversifying its earnings base towards higher-value ingredients and cheese... Read

Products



Cryovac launches printable top web for vacuum packaging
Global packaging brand Cryovac has introduced a co-extruded barrier top web for its Darfresh vacuum skin packaging range that allows manufacturers to use high quality printing to differentiate their products... Read

Safety & Legislation



No nano in organic foods, says UK certifier
The use of nanomaterials has been banned from organic foods by the UK's Soil Association, the leading certifier of organic products in the country... Read


FDA gives safety thumbs-up for cloned meat, milk
The FDA will today issue its long-awaited final risk assessment on the safety of meat and milk from healthy cloned animals and their offspring, which concludes that they pose no risk to human health... Read


Food recalls: US beef in E.coli scare; cyanide in crackers
A US meatpacker has recalled about 188,000 pounds of ground beef and other products because of E. coli bacteria concerns; and higher-than-normal levels of naturally occuring cyanide were found in a cassava cracker... Read


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Weekly comment

How natural is 'natural'?

Products claiming to be 'natural' are flooding onto the marketplace, but the refusal by regulators to provide a formal definition of the term will ultimately lead to confusion for consumers and a legal headache for manufacturers. Read



Previous Headlines



Clean label Ezimoist improves sausage succulence
Ulrick & Short has developed an additive-free phosphate replacer to maintain moisture in sausages in response to increasing pressures for food manufacturers to provide clean label products... Read


UK poultry farmers hit out at battery hen ban
A pledge by the UK government to stick with a ban on farming of battery hens for their eggs has provoked fury among the country's farmers... Read


Bird flu found in dead swans in UK
Poultry farmers in the UK are being alerted to further cases of bird flu in the country, after the government revealed yesterday that it had identified the disease in three dead wild swans... Read


US meat processor recycles waste into biogas
A US-based meat processor is the latest player in the food industry to start recycling waste into biogas, in order to reduce fossil fuels use and improve waste management... Read


Celery extracts enhance chicken broth, study
Volatile extracts from celery can enhance the umami and sweet properties of chicken soup, and could offer novel flavour enhancers for food formulations, suggests new research from Japan... Read

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