Food Industry News

Food manufacturers and suppliers are increasingly targeting emerging markets as an export opportunity, a survey of visitors and exhibitors at last week’s Vitafoods Europe show has revealed.

• Vitafoods
• Europe
• Nutrition
• Show
• Ingredients

The EU is to provide scientific advice on the daily intake of added sugar in food by 2020.

• Sugars
• Food Additives

A group of consumer, health and food safety NGOs are suing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over a final rule which they claim allows new food additive chemicals into products, without having their safety properly assessed.

• Food Additives

Additives are substances added to food during the production and packaging process to enhance their shelf life, texture, color, and taste. We are told that additives are dangerous and harmful to our health.

• Food
• Additives

A coalition of consumer and health groups is challenging a Food and Drug Administration rule that allows manufacturers to decide what can be added to processed foods.

• Food Additives

According to a recent market research report published by Transparency Market Research, the global animal feed additives market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of 4.3% between 2015 and 2021.

• Feed Additives
• Animals

A framework for estimating levels of unknown chemicals in mixtures, using marker compounds, has been developed by a team from the Technical University of Denmark's National Food Institute.

• Food Additives
• Food

Breast cancer group 'very optimistic' on Cleaning Product Right to Know Act's prospects.

• Ingredient
• Food

Canada Approved the Use of Calcium Chloride in Some Meat Product Recently, Health Canada announced that they approve the use of calcium chloride as the meat tenderiser in some meat products.

• Meat
• Calcium
• Chloride

The Center for Environmental Health says 40 percent of canned goods it tested contained BPA, a chemical linked to birth defects and cancer.

• Food
• Canned Food
• BPA

For some reason, some folks don’t want to leave the issue alone and keep trying to “prove” that ...

• Sweetner

Although erythritol, a sugar substitute used to sweeten low-calorie foods, supposedly has very little impact on blood glucose with its zero calorie content

• sweetener

Until now, the company hasn’t announced changes to its products, preferring to reformulate behind the scenes and bank on consumers not noticing.

• Sugar
• Fat

Cadbury cream eggs are the height of sweetness. The milky substance on the outside barely qualifies as “chocolate” and the oozing fondant within is almost pure sugar. It’s possible the foil wrapper is the most nutritious part.

• Food
• Sugar

But as drinks like soda are being taxed in more and more states, and more Americans are enjoying bottled water over carbonated drinks, maybe it’s best to stick to plain old water until science can give us the full story on carbon ...

• Sparkling
• Water

In a new study, published in the journal Appetite, researchers stood outside fast-food restaurants and asked people to guess how much sodium they just ate. Their answers were almost always six times too low.

• Salt
• Food

Doing so will help facilitate a more informed discourse on the safety of colors, while continuing our tradition of supporting the safe use of color additives.

• Additives
• Synthetic

Food additives are added to foods to serve specific technical purposes, and are classified depending on the function they perform when added to foods, e.g. stabilizers, thickeners, gelling agents.

• Food

The Federal University of Viçosa (UFV-MG) in Brazil has launched a new edition of the ‘Brazilian Tables for Poultry and Swine,’ which is considered one of the most important references in the formulation of feed for the global agribusiness industry.

• Feed
• Formulation

The demand for dairy products and meat is increasing by the day on account of growing population and the prevalence of a hectic lifestyle, making it essential for consumers to have a diet with everyday protein needs.

• Feed
• Additives