News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Biotech giant Monsanto announced a smaller net loss for the first quarter of 2005 than the same period last year thanks mainly to increasing seed sales, but legal problems are still proving expensive for the company.
The new year began with some bad news for the Canadian beef industry after the country confirmed its second case of BSE.
Stopping the distribution of contaminated foods from the farm to the fork is a ceaseless challenge for the food industry that relies heavily on technology to identify any anomalies.
Despite an upturn in global wheat, corn and soy production in 2004, prices for food ingredients sourced from cereal raw materials are likely to remain under pressure, writes Lindsey Partos.
Food technology company Senomyx has recently taken a step closer to commercializing several of its savory enhancers after submitting them to be registered as GRAS, reports Philippa Nuttall.
Colour does not appear to dictate lycopene content as green, purple and red tomato ketchups boast similar levels of health promoting antioxidant lycopene, claim researchers, who also identified dark red ketchup as boasting the strongest levels.