Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

A new campaign is calling on US supermarkets to stop selling meat raised on antibiotics, claiming that the majority of consumers want antibiotic-free meat.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

Scotland has created a stand-alone food safety agency as a backlash against the UK Government decision in 2010 to split the functions of the body and over concerns about toxic relations between its meat industry and London-based inspectors.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Ecolab has picked up an innovation award at the annual IFT expo for its residual antimicrobial coatings used by food and beverage processors.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Michelman has been awarded a US$2.5m (€2m) grant to build a R&D centre focussed on new water based coating technologies for paper and flexible packaging.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

The Olympics offers brand owners and waste management firms the chance to build on sustainable packaging made from plants according to bioeconomy consultancy group the National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC).

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The dairy industry will experience a “slow squeeze” in the final quarter of 2012 as global supply continues to exceed demand, Rabobank has claimed.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Yoplait manufacturer General Mills is set to launch a “strong innovation line-up” over the coming year in an effort to reclaim a greater share of the Greek-dominated US yogurt market.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Prime Minster David Cameron’s recent trade mission to Mexico has secured a deal with a tortilla manufacturer that will create 120 jobs in the UK.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

Prime Minster David Cameron’s recent trade mission to Mexico has secured a deal with a tortilla manufacturer that will create 120 jobs in the UK.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

TV Apprentice finalist Nick Holzherr has secured a £170,000 investment for his recipe website, after being ‘fired’ by Lord Sugar.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Most major UK supermarkets operate sourcing policies that promote British produce but all could do more, reveals a new survey from the National Farmers Union (NFU).

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Rick Pendrous

The first four awards for Registered Science Technician (RSciTech) were made to individuals within the food manufacturing sector earlier this month.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Dairy Crest is to sell its French spreads business St Hubert to Montagu Capital for £344M (€430m).

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

The architect of a Taiwanese ‘bubble tea’ sensation sweeping London tells that his firm Bubbleology would be happy to discuss an attractive retail-focused partnership, but the current focus is on taking its café concept to Europe and beyond.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

The UK’s first beverage carton reprocessing plant is to be established thanks to a partnership between packaging giants Tetra Pak, SIG Combibloc and Elopak with Sonoco Alcore.

Published: Jun 30, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to buy the balance of shares in Grupo Modelo for $20bn, with the transformational deal set to see Corona join Budweiser as a global flagship brand.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

An investigation from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) has unearthed multiple serious violations of Nestlé’s supplier code, particularly through the use of children on cocoa farms

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Cadbury owner Kraft Foods has filed an international patent for a process to make low-calorie chocolate that it claims can maintain texture and quality while extending shelf-life.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Nitrate-rich vegetables, such as spinach, could have a ‘powerful effect’ on boosting muscle strength by increasing the levels of certain proteins, according to new research in mice.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) appears to have nailed shut the door for soy-cholesterol reducing health claims in the European Union, after dismissing a series of formal objections to its third rejection of the bean’s cholesterol-lowering capac