News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Ending a long running lawsuit the US unit of UK starch and sugar group Tate & Lyle will pay out £55 million (€89m) to settle an anti-trust lawsuit on high fructose corn syrup, a popular sweetener used by soft drinks giant Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
Marketing and sales strategy pays off for UK-based firm Muntons Malted Ingredients (MMI) with turnover increasing more than three times in as many years.
Food makers need to write clearer food labels so that consumers can easily understand the ingredients used in the food formulation, finds a new report released in the UK this week.
A US cancer prevention expert says that if government required calcium and vitamin D to be added to foods, it could achieve a 20 per cent reduction in colon cancer deaths and osteoporosis-related fractures.
Law makers, consumer groups and industry continue to clash over the use of GM ingredients in the European food chain, but a major UK-based food science body asserts this week that genetic modification has the potential to offer strong benefits -...