News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Coca-Cola has successfully road tested “several” ways of creating a 100 percent plant-based PET (polyethylene) bottle in the lab, but says more work is needed before it can be scaled up to work at an industrial level.
The US Department of Agriculture has proposed that companies should hold meat and poultry products until inspectors have received foodborne pathogen test results, in an effort to reduce illness.
Global mozzarella sales pushed up beyond pre-recession levels in 2010 thanks largely to the recovery of the US economy, according to Proteus Research.
A growing number of healthy Americans over the age of 50 are thinking about aging in terms of health and wellness, and present huge opportunities for the food industry, says a new report from Packaged Facts.
Concerns over the potential increase in the risk of breast cancer recurrence from consuming soy isoflavones may be unfounded, according to combined data from over 16,000 women.
A federal judge has ruled that a case against the Campbell Soup Company can proceed, in which four New Jersey women claim that the company’s ‘less sodium’ claim on tomato soup is misleading.
After years of unsuccessful attempts to culture taste cells, a team of researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center has demonstrated that living human taste cells can be maintained in culture for at least seven months.