Published: May 17, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Food manufacturers have rejected claims that migrant workers suffer abuse in the food manufacturing sector.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Freddie Dawson

Whitehall plans for a single front-of-pack nutritional labelling scheme could be torpedoed by the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

The governments of China, South Korea and Japan have vowed to work together to ensure effective livestock disease control across Asia.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Melodie Michel

Danish breeding company DanBred, is trying to reduce the risk of boar taint in pork through genomic selection, ahead of the 2018 implementation of the EU’s declaration on alternatives to surgical castration of pigs.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Vladislav Vorotnikov

Russian meat processing giant Cherkizovo has taken an “investment vacation” from pig projects, citing the sector’s uncertainty on the eve of Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Published: May 17, 2012

A Mexican duty on US chicken leg quarter imports would damage the US poultry industry and leave many Mexican consumers unable to afford to eat poultry, according to a new report by Dermot Hayes PhD.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

Food companies are getting creative with Greek yogurt, expanding it into new categories and formats, as they seek to profit from its meteoric rise.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Mark Astley

Danone has launched a “new category” of yogurt to Spanish consumers – offering the experience of eating ice cream with the nutritional benefits of yogurt.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Arla Foods is taking ‘radical’ cost-cutting steps to keep pace with rivals and told DairyReporter.com that fewer suppliers might have to offer lower prices for packaging and other materials.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rod Addy

C&C Group has posted annual profit growth in its global alcoholic drinks business, driven by robust growth in cider.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

An award-winning UK winery pulled up by regulators for illegally calling a wine it made using Argentinian grapes ‘wine’ under EU law says that current labelling rules are hopelessly out of step with consumer needs.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is inviting a host of stakeholders – including packaging companies and food businesses - to submit data on migration of Bisphenol A (BPA) from packaging and levels of the chemicals in food and beverages.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

Tamar Labels said its takeover of self-adhesive label producer Labelit will open up new food and beverage market opportunities in Europe.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

All the high-density polyethylene (HDPE) value chain needs to take action to increase recycling rates, according to an EU body representing plastic recyclers.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

ExxonMobil Chemical has launched a film which it claims will extend product shelf life due to high oxygen protection.

Published: May 17, 2012

Dunreidy Engineering has become the latest firm to contribute to a project aimed at developing a sustainable whey protein coated film for food packaging.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Manufacturers of fruit gums, milk cream fillings and ice cream can now benefit from a range of natural strawberry flavours that has just been launched by flavours firm Wild in Germany.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Oliver Nieburg

Twice as much UTZ certified cocoa was sold to producers in 2011 compared to the previous year as demand for sustainable cocoa soared in Germany, according to the recently published UTZ Certified Annual Report 2011.

Published: May 17, 2012 By: Rory Harrington

Tamar Labels said its takeover of self-adhesive label producer Labelit will open up new food and beverage market opportunities in Europe.

Published: May 17, 2012

Canada-based refinery NovaGreen has announced plans to produce sugar substitute xylitol over the next two years to supply confectioners in North America.