Food Industry News

Scientists have developed a low cost, portable, paper-based “smart label” that can detect spoilage and contamination of food and cosmetics, and provide easy to-read results.

• Food
• Cosmetics

Targets are to be set to reduce calories in pizzas, burgers and ready meals as part of the government's drive to tackle child obesity in England. Health officials believe the move is needed as people are consuming 200 to 300 calories too many each day.

• Food
• Calories

University of Rhode Island and Harvard University professors are collaborating through a new research center to study chemicals that have contaminated water at sites nationwide.

• Chemical
• Water

IMCD NV has signed an exclusive agreement with Givaudan, to distribute the company’s flavours range in the food and nutrition markets across Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Benelux and Nordics.

• IMCD

Research shows that more than one third of shoppers in the EU (35%) are proactively avoiding food and drink products that contain artificial additives or preservatives, while the same proportion say they regularly check the ingredients list on pack.

• Ingredients
• Food

A coalition of US NGOs is demanding that Kraft, and other processed cheese producers, find and remove the sources of phthalates in their products – an action at least one manufacturer may be ready to take.

• Cheese

The Senate minority leader also took on meat allergy-causing ticks and cramped airline seats, too.

• Sen.
• Schumer
• FDA
• Packaging

The cheese powers in ten varieties of macaroni and cheese products tested all contain toxic industrial chemicals (known as phthalates), according to the Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging, a national alliance...

• Food Additives
• Cheese

Scientists at the University of Alberta and McGill University have discovered a direct link between calcium and cholesterol, a discovery that could pave the way for new ways of treating high blood cholesterol.

• Calcium–Cholesterol

Food and beverages additives primarily include direct food additives and indirect food additives. Those food additives which are purposely added are known as direct food additives.

• Food
• Beverages

Food in the Boston Public Schools may soon come from greener pastures. The school district has inked a deal with national school meal provider, Revolution Foods.

• Food Additives

Japanese baker Masaru Kuge used to operate his bakery at the Tin Ma Court Commercial Centre in Wong Tai Sin. Kuge makes his bread not only free of food additives but also with a personal touch.

• Health
• Additives
• Food

McCormick & Co agreed to acquire Reckitt Benckiser’s food business for $4.2bn, adding French’s mustard and Frank’s RedHot sauce to its lineup of spices and seasonings.

• McCormick

Professor Bruce Neal from the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney reviewed more than 34,000 packaged foods with health-star ratings. These are the voluntary front-of-pack labels, designed to help people make healthier choices.

• Sugar
• Food

New Zealand's food policies need major improvement in order to see any change to the country's obesity epidemic, a new report says.

• Food
• Policy

With all the warnings to wear sunscreen and cover up, worries about skin cancer can cast shadows over even the nicest beach day. Now scientists researching how to prevent skin cancer have good news

• Food
• Cancer

The Canadian Beverage Association (CBA) has criticised research that linked artificial sweeteners to obesity, saying the findings were invalid.

• Sweetener

A United Nations standards-setting body today adopted a number of decisions to ensure food safety, including maximum residue limits for a range of drugs used in cattle and other animals.

• Arsenic

'The results showed a statistically significant association between consumption of artificial sweeteners and higher risks of diabetes, heart disease and increased weight gain,' said Dr Azad.

• Sweeteners

General Mills has published a patent for reducing sugars in the coating of ready-to-eat cereals without changing their texture, appearance or bowl life, according to Food Business News.

• Sugar