Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Stephen Daniells

Dietary supplements of vitamin D3 may boost visual function in lab mice, suggests a new study from the UK with potential implications for the eye health market.

Published: Aug 30, 2012

UK drinks giant Britvic tells BeverageDaily.com that it is launching a new drive to encourage wintertime squash consumption, as it plans a major product launch this September.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Robert Wiseman Dairies has launched an initiative with dairy farmers to increase the transparency of how it determines its farm gate milk prices (FGMP).

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Irish dairy giant Glanbia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Glanbia Co-operative Society Limited to enter into a joint venture in respect of its Dairy Ingredients Ireland (DII) business.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Rod Addy

The Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) has stepped up its assault on food industry advertising, vowing to press on with complaints against Nestlé after winning a challenge against UK confectionery firm Swizzels Matlow.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Mark Astley

UK-based food inspection specialist S+S Inspection has harnessed the power of neodymium magnets to offer an easy to implement method of removing metal contaminants from liquid and paste product manufacturing lines.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

A local council’s plan to boost Grimsby’s seafood manufacturing industry by £75M and create up to 970 jobs has been given government’s first seal of approval.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

The UK has ended months of ambiguity by banning controversial stimulant DMAA, after its medicines agency won an appeal against a retailer of the most popular brand – USPlabs’ Jack3D.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Nestlé UK has responded to critics of its cereal advertising that are claiming it contravenes Advertising Standards Association rules, claiming the ASA has given the campaign the thumbs up.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Two firms have been ordered to pay nearly £75,500 each after a worker was fatally injured when he drove a scissor lift extendable platform into an unprotected pit in a food factory floor.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Asda’s acquisition of Netto stores will prove a key factor in Morrisons’ announcement of difficult first half trading for 2012/2013, when it reports interim results on September 6, predicts Shore Capital analysts Clive Black and Darren Shirley.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Cheese producer Wyke Farms has complained of “broken promises”after Morrisons cancelled a meeting due to take place today (August 28) to discuss the delisting of the Somerset family business.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

Data on world trade in wheat flour just issued by the International Grains Council affirm that global flour exports in 2011-12 attained a new record by a wide margin, but that the outlook for 2012-13 points to a drop of 9%.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

Aditi Mukherji has been named the first recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

The Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group has officially opened its new processing facility at Bellshill in central Scotland by holding a special celebration event where guests heard of the company’s exciting development plans for the future.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Nathan Gray

An extract from herbal tea popular in Pakistan may have benefits for people with breast cancer, according to new lab research.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Shane Starling

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) health claims panel has given short shrift to an appeal by a Malta-based start-up urging it to revise a 2009 rejection of the prebiotic potential of the company’s proprietary Bimuno formulation.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Two companies have been fined after a man was killed when he drove a specialist machine into an unprotected pit in a factory floor during the construction of a food processing plant.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

A Cornish farmer has won a battle with Tesco over a sign in his local store promoting the sale of ‘100% British meat from our butcher’.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: John Wood

The union representative involved in trying to avert the closure of Vion’s threatened Hall’s of Broxburn meat processing plant, has agreed it will now be “very difficult” to save all the jobs at the site.