News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The current BSE crisis in the US has touched numerous industries and ignited countless issues. One of these topics that the crisis has brought back to life has been the simmering feud over country-of-origin labelling of beef and other foods.
Food giant Cargill has opened a plant to manufacture erythritol, a sweetener that is claimed to taste like sugar but contain no calories. The group believes there is real potential in the product, and has already signed an agreement with a Japanese...