China will extend anti-dumping duties on potato starch imported from the European Union for five more years from Feb. 6 to protect local enterprises, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday.
Desmet Ballestra, a supplier of plants and equipment and licensee of CTi's vegetable oil refining technology, has entered into a sales agreement with a refinery in Argentina that produces vegetable oil.
Burger King’s announcement that it has switched to German and Italian beef suppliers in the wake of the horse meat scandal is the latest in a line of broken food industry pledges to ‘buy British’.
Consumers typically consider marinades to be a tool for adding flavor to animal proteins prior to cooking. On the manufacturing side, marinades are all about product enhancement – from increasing yield to improving eating quality.
Total annual sales for the Skippy peanut butter business are expected to be approximately $370 million, with nearly $100 million of those sales outside the United States.
According to SternChemie, health, convenience and sustainability are key trends in the food market, which researchers expect to continue to gain in importance.
Sweeteners based on natural sources have impacted the tabletop sweetener market, said Javed Ahmed, chief executive for Tate & Lyle, P.L.C. in a Feb. 1 conference call.
A recent survey of patients with lactose intolerance revealed that more than three fourths of them reduce or eliminate dairy from their diets as the primary means of "managing" their symptoms.
Adults should consume less than 2,000mg of sodium, or 5g of salt, and at least 3,510mg of potassium per day, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the fair and remunerative price of sugarcane payable by sugar mills for 2013-14 sugar season to be fixed at Rs 210 per quintal.
British-Dutch multinational company Unilever has completed the sale of its global Skippy business to Hormel Foods, excluding its operations in China where the transaction is pending regulatory approvals.
General Comments: Futures closed lower and retreated back into the recent trading range. It looks like the market now is dealing with a failed breakout attempt higher.
Burcon NutraScience, a Canadian producer of renewable plant proteins, has begun the construction of a pea protein production facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba.