Published: Jul 06, 2015

Leatherhead Food Research is urging the industry to talk more openly about food fraud prevention strategies after a study revealed up to 43% of consumers are not confident that processed foods contain the meat or fish specified on the label.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Azelis has announced the opening of a new Food Application kitchen on 1st July 2015 in Prague to provide value added formulation support to customers in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary for all food and beverage applications.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Sysco Corporation has terminated its merger agreement with US Foods, days after the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., granted the Federal Trade Commission's request for a preliminary injunction to block the proposed Sysco-US Foods merger. This acti

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Today’s lift trucks and racking solutions come equipped with advanced technologies to keep up with the ever-changing demands of cold food processors. Here’s some insight as to how forklifts measure up in the cold food industry.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

The FSA has won a Judicial Review brought against it by the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) and Cleveland Meat Company Limited, a slaughterhouse operator based in Stockton on Tees. The two organisations had gone to court in attempt to ove

Published: Jul 06, 2015

The hard-charging California company behind POM Wonderful pomegranate juice is facing a two-front legal fight.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Hong Kong and the Netherlands have a lot in common, geographically - as a gateway to bigger hinterland - but also in terms of people...

Published: Jul 06, 2015

South African apple exports are up as much as 17% to Europe, and 32% for the UK (end of June), while pear exports are down between 11% and 18%. “We’re down on the previous year but the previous year was a record.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has given market approval to Nestle's Maggi noodles after it was banned in India for containing excess lead.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Meat eaters who justify their eating habits feel less guilty and are more tolerant of social inequality say researchers. They found that the vast majority of omnivores defend consuming animals by rationalizing their behavior using one of four rationalizat

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Eating bugs may not seem appetizing, but according to John Coupland, PhD, CFS, Professor of Food Science at Penn State University and spokesperson for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), insects are a sustainable alternative protein source with nut

Published: Jul 06, 2015

In 1964, renowned biologists Peter Raven and Paul Erhlich published a landmark study that introduced the concept of co-evolution. Now, an international team of researchers has used genomics to analyze the co-evolution theory and identified the mechanisms

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Parents could banish their children's fussy eating habits by following three simple steps, a new study suggests.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

A new method keeps salmon fresh for a whole month, without the use of chemicals.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

Think you're a foodie? Adventurous eaters, known as 'foodies,' are often associated with indulgence and excess. However, a new study shows just the opposite -- adventurous eaters weigh less and may be healthier than their less-adventurous counterparts.

Published: Jul 06, 2015

To protect consumers from foodborne illness, produce farmers should wait 24 hours after a rain or irrigating their fields to harvest crops, experts say. Rain or irrigation creates soil conditions that are more hospitable to Listeria monocytogenes, which w

Published: Jul 03, 2015

A study published in AgResearch shows that while trans fat content has declined in fast-food chain restaurant meals over the past 18 years, portion sizes have not.

Published: Jul 03, 2015

There is still a lot of potential, as seen in comparisons with Great Britain and France, where 6% of all FMCG are sold online. But what implications does this have for fruits and vegetables (F&V)?

Published: Jul 03, 2015

Better nutrition made Chinese people grow taller in the past decade or so, and boosted women more than men, but the change of diet also made more people overweight and even obese, a national health survey has found.

Published: Jul 03, 2015

After the Russian government extended the ban against European produce, Fruitimprese chairman Marco Salvi (in the photo) talked to FreshPlaza about the problems of the industry - from production costs to the relationship with retailers.