Food ingredients industry roundup
This week's roundup covers ingredients companies relocating and expanding, firms in the courtroom and corporations finalizing new mergers and acquisitions.
Archives for June 16, 2005
Gum arabic agreement targets stable supplies
P.L. Thomas, the only US representative at the recent Gum Arabic industry meeting in Sudan, tells Anthony Fletcher why the international commitment to secure long-term supplies of gum Arabic is such an important breakthrough.
New gum arabic strategy to nurture buffer stocks for price stability
Buffer stocks are the cornerstone of a new strategy unveiled to stabilise price and sustain permanent supplies for gum arabic in the world's top three producing countries, writes Lindsey Partos.
EFSA: bacteria and moulds face new system for safety assessment
Europe's food safety body backs proposals to introduce the concept of Qualified Presumption of Safety (QPS) for the safety assessment of microorganisms used in food production.
UK releases funding to support more supplement dossiers
The UK's food authority said this week that it will provide up to £20,000 (€30,000) to pay for external scientists to produce more dossiers for supplement ingredients not currently on the European directive's positive list, reports Dominique Patton.
A tasty future in microencapsulated flavors
Microencapsulated flavors are opening up new food development possibilities never before attempted, writes Anthony Fletcher.