MeadWestvaco has reported Q1 profits plummeted by 23% in their food and beverage segment and warned they expect Q2 earnings to be ‘lower than the second quarter last year’.
Ecolab have announced their president, who joined the firm as part of the Nalco merger last year, is leaving to become chief executive officer for chemicals company, Univar.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that mad cow disease has been confirmed in a dairy cow in California, the first case in the US since 2006. However, the authorities assured that the meat from the cow did not enter the food supply.
A recent study that found no bio-based plastics are fully sustainable contained significant inaccuracies and was based on out of date information, according to the leading manufacturer of one of the materials covered in the research.
Florida-based ATM Metabolics is in advanced negotiations with some of the biggest food and beverage brands in the US and Europe about incorporating Emulin - the insulin-mimicking active ingredient in
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Tuesday that he and possibly two other Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee will introduce an amendment to provide $800 million in funding over 10 years f
U.S. cattle futures rebounded Wednesday from the panicked selling of a day earlier, when traders were just learning of the fourth case of mad-cow disease in the U.S.Live-cattle futures for April deliv
The US Food Drugs Administration (FDA) has proposed new guidelines for the use of nanotechnology by food manufacturers in the United States.Nanotechnology is an evolving technology that allows scie
Latest market research by international research body Innova Database has found the table and cooking sauces markets are seeing moves to spicier and more complex flavourings.Innovas research focused o
As a regulatory agency, FDA publishes rules that establish or modify the way it regulates foods, drugs, biologics, cosmetics, radiation-emitting electronic products, and medical devices--commodities c
A US company has developed a food packaging technology that dissolves when exposed to water and said it is ready for commercial roll-out as soon as individual customers’ needs are satisfied.
PepsiCo brand Tropicana has launched two new US Trop50 varieties, including an innovative juice with tea mix and a red orange juice with 50% less sugar and calories.
Emerging food quality method Process Analytic Technology (PAT) is gradually gaining traction in the food industry after being launched in the pharmaceutical sector eight years ago, Soenke Rosemann of Sartorius told FoodProductionDaily.com at Anuga FoodTec