Published: Apr 23, 2012

Swiss food and drinks giant Nestle SA forecast Friday that 2012 will be a challenging year but reported that first-quarter sales rose a healthy 5.6 per cent from a year earlier, fueled by strong growth in emerging markets and higher retail prices.

Published: Apr 23, 2012

PepsiCo tipped its hand on its innovation plans today, advertising for a position on a still-forming team designed to work with emerging beverages out of its Naked Juice offices near Los Angeles.

Published: Apr 12, 2012

A US-based cheese manufacturer has been forced to close by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to fears of listeria contamination in its products.

Published: Apr 12, 2012

The Beijing Food Safety Regulation draft amendment, which is open to comment until 25 April 2012, states that anyone convicted of a food safety crime in the city will be banned for life.

Published: Apr 06, 2012

Sudan has called off the launch of a $1bn sugar plant, delaying the industrial project which was aimed at reducing the country's dependence on sugar imports.

Published: Apr 06, 2012

The European Union (EU) has decided to lift the import ban on fresh poultry meat from Thailand beginning 1 July, ending an eight-year ban which was imposed after avian influenza was detected in Thai poultry.

Published: Apr 06, 2012

Nestlé has invested over CHF127m ($140m) in a new factory in Chile. The plant will produce a range of dairy products and ingredients for domestic consumption and for export to the US, Central America, the Middle East and Asia.

Published: Apr 06, 2012

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Ayyam Zaman brand Extra Fine Tahina described below because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

It's awfully hard to make sweet vanilla treats on a budget when poor harvests mean that there's not enough vanilla to go around.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

Shoppers may have already noticed changes in the meat isle at their local grocery store. Nutrition labels are now on raw meat and poultry products. under a new rule from the US Department of Agriculture.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

The UK has been required to change the process by which a very small part of its meat processing industry removes meat from animal bones.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

The Food Standards Agency has launched the Play it Safe campaign, to raise awareness of food safety during the London 2012 Games. The Agency is working with food businesses and food safety enforcement officers to ensure all food sold, cooked and eaten du

Published: Apr 05, 2012

Beef Products Inc., whose lean finely textures beef (LFBT) product is at the epicenter of a media and social media storm, came out in favor of USDA’s decision to allow companies that use its product to label it for consumers.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

A green tea leaves sample, imported from Japan and collected from a local retail outlet during surveillance, was detected with low radioactivity levels, but did not exceed the guideline levels of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

Published: Apr 05, 2012

Ella’s Kitchen is recalling one batch code of Stage 3 Seriously Comforting Cottage Pie with a Pinch of Cinnamon. There is a possibility that there could be hardened cinnamon inside the pouch, which could present a choking risk. As a result the product is

Published: Apr 05, 2012

A ruling that will see the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) gain extended access to food industry records will “weed out” those companies that have not been cooperative during food safety incidents in the past.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

PepsiCo is facing another class action lawsuit in California – this time accusing it of making a nutrient content claim (0 grams trans fat) on Frito-Lay snacks, without adhering to the legal conditions of use for such claims.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

The United States said it would appeal a World Trade Organization ruling against a law that requires country-of-origin labels on all meat sold in US grocery stores.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

Expanded market opportunities for US and re-opening foreign markets to US poultry and poultry products are just some of the successes the US has garnered in efforts to eliminate sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade.

Published: Apr 05, 2012

Macau Eiji Company Limited, a subsidiary of Sino Agro Food, has been awarded a sales contract worth an estimated $18 million.Macau Eiji will supply 4,000 head of Simmental and Charolais cattle to a C