News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has urged Pennsylvanian officials to ignore the advice of a task force on trans fat, which concluded that a mandatory ban “could be more harmful from a health perspective”.
The US food industry faces a negative and worsening outlook, with falling demand for key brands and bankruptcies predicted by Moody’s.
Colombia's Grupo Nacional de Chocolates, purportedly the country's biggest food company, will buy Mexican chocolate manufacturer Nutresa for $95m.
Agricultural processing giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has reported strong second quarter results despite slowing demand, with profits up 24 percent compared to the same period last year.
A potassium lactate and sodium diacetate mix may reduce the sodium chloride content by 40 per cent, and significantly increase shelf-life, says a new study from Purac.