Published: Jul 24, 2012 By: Dancy

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) – the UK’s competition watchdog, has started an investigation into the proposed sale of Premier Foods’ vinegar and sour pickles business to Japanese food firm Mizkan.

Published: Jul 24, 2012

Brazil plans to provide $96m loan facility to improve small-scale and rural farming in Ghana, in order to boost food production in the country, according to Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana, Irene Vida Gala.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

Remy Cointreau has concluded its hunt for Bruichladdich Distillery Company with a GBP58m (US$90.3m) purchase of the Islay-based Scotch whisky producer.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

Sensient offers solutions for shades from bright yellow to brilliant orange and red and green color hues. In this new range all in-gredients are free of palm derived components, not simply the active pigment.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

In order for EFSA to receive comments from the scientific community and stakeholders, EFSA has launched a public consultation on the draft document developed by the NDA Panel of EFSA. Interested parties are invited by EFSA to submit written comments by 28

Published: Jul 23, 2012

A strategic review of the Frozen Foods business has led to the conclusion that further alignment and process integration between Favory and Beckers need to take place. Wessanen and Rabo have explored a number of potential routes and ownership structures t

Published: Jul 23, 2012 By: Mr Neil Murray

SHRIMP disease is running rampant in the Mexican state of Sonora, and the shrimp farming industry has asked the state’s agriculture ministry to declare several disaster zones.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

NZ Snack Foods, the private equity controlled owner of Griffins, ETA and Nice and Natural food products, posted a 50 percent drop in annual profit as costs rose faster than sales and it took an impairment charge against one of its brands.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

In addition to making the request, the association irradiated frozen and defrosted raw beef liver in an experiment with the help of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)s Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute.

Published: Jul 23, 2012 By: Vikram Doctor

As London gears up, it is worth remembering that they might owe the honour, in some small part, to the well-known awfulness of English food. This goes back to Singapore 2005 when the International Olympic Committee met to decide the 2012 venue.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

Joe Delucci’s has secured its first supermarket listing - agreeing a 12-month exclusive deal with Tesco for four flavours of its gelato.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

Earnings at B&G Foods, Inc. rose 27% in the second quarter while sales increased 15%, boosted in large part by the Culver Specialty Brands business acquired in November 2011.

Published: Jul 23, 2012 By: Eric Schroeder

Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky announced Hearthside Food Solutions L.L.C. plans to invest $1.4 million in London, Ky., to add a cookie/cracker production line and new packaging equipment and to create 80 jobs.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

Do you have a chemical intolerance or know someone who does? You may be surprised to know that such intolerances are more common than you thought.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is once again busy funding efforts to promote the spread of the agricultural cancer that are genetically-modified (GM) crops, this time in the form of a $10 million grant it recently issued to a group of British scient

Published: Jul 23, 2012 By: Danielle Gould

Last week, food tech startup Real Time Farms, in partnership with FixFood’s ”Meat Without Drugs“ campaign, launched the FixAntibiotics Food Finder.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

New research presented at the 2012 American Society of Animal Science meeting provided insight into the consequences if U.S. farmers and ranchers no longer used productivity-enhancing technologies to raise beef cattle.

Published: Jul 23, 2012

According to Reuters, people in the United States, Denmark, Norway, and France led the world in food security thanks to ample supplies, high incomes, low costs for food relative to other expenditures, and significant research and development concentrated

Published: Jul 23, 2012

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the University of California – Davis, Agilent Technologies Inc., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a collaboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen geno

Published: Jul 23, 2012

A study published in the European Journal of Nutrition shows that consuming wild blueberry juice may reduce the risk of cardiovascular and degenerative diseases by preventing DNA damage from oxidation.