Food Industry News

MartinoRossi leads in plant-based ingredients, offering innovative solutions. From roasted pulses flours to plant-based and allergen-free mixes, they meet the most innovative market trends.

• New Food Ingredients
• Plant-based Active Ingredients

After two consecutive years of deficit in conjunction with the expectation of anothernegative for the current season, cocoa futures in London and New York havecontinued to be bullish as demand for chocolate remains high.

• Chocolate
• Cocoa Bean

Middle Eastern food and beverage heavyweight Agthia has pledged to focus moreinvestment into the diqitalisation of its business as well as the creation of newsnacking innovations in order to sustain the positive growth and profitability.

• Agthia
• Digitalisation
• Snacking

The Maqnum, Wall's, and Ben & Jerry's owner is reformulating its ice creams towithstand warmer temperatures, and wants others to do the same.

• Dairy-Based Ingredients
• Proteins
• Innovation And NPD
• Sweeteners

An agreement with SaaS company Sustained has made it possible for animal protein-level environmental footprint data to be translated into product-level lifecycleassessments for consumer food products, such as milk, eggs, fish, and meat.

• Food Production
• animal protein

Nestle ndia has launched a variety of new products focused on millets as a kevingredient this year, in an effort to increase consumer acceptance and awareness viafamiliar product formats while also aligning with the lndian government's lnternationaYear.

• Nestlé
• millet-based product

Recent research has raised questions about sucralose, a widely-used artificial sugar-free sweetener that provides the same sweetness as traditional sugar, minus the calories. While it sounds like a win-win scenario for health-conscious consumers.

• Sucralose
• EFSA
• S6A
• plant-based sweeteners

A large outbreak with almost 200 cases in China was caused by poor hygiene at the producer and inadequate food storage at schools, according to a recent study.

• Bacillus cereus
• Rice noodles

Almost 70 freshcut fruit products, including cantaloupe, recalled in connection to outbreak. Canadian officials have ordered the recall of dozens of freshcut fruit products in connection with an outbreak of Salmonella infections.

• Salmonella
• cantaloupe
• CFIA

New infections from Listeria linked to fresh peaches, nectarines and plums.The recall implicates 12 fresh fruits sold under at least three brands. The HMC Group Marketing Inc. company issued the recall for the fruit, which has been distributed nationwide.

• Listeria
• nectarines

IFSAC 2021 Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Report Shows Salmonellosis Caused by Variety of Foods

• Salmonella
• FDA
• USDA-FSIS

Consumers in the Middle East are increasingly looking for protein-richproducts to fulfil various needs, with claims ranging from sportsperformance to age-related muscle support.

• functional ingredients
• Proteins
• Peptides
• Amino acids

The European Institute of lnnovation and Technology (ElT), partnering with FoodtechHUB Latam, is expanding its Food Accelerator Network (FAN) to Brazil, where it willopen a hub that will help develop burgeoning agrifood-tech start-ups in the LatinAmerica.

• Health And Nutritional Ingredients
• Food Additives Companies

While breast milk is often hailed as nature's gold standard for infant nutrition, it’s not always readily available. Enter infant formula enriched with human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), a game-changing product that seek to mirror the composition of brea

• infant formula
• food ingredients
• Nutrients

Legal action has been brought against Nestlé Purina Petcare in the US, after various products were allegedly falsely marketed as ‘natural’, despite containing multiple synthetic ingredients.

• Nestlé
• Food Company News
• multiple synthetic ingredients

After 20 years of pioneering advancements in the production of natural antioxidants, Vitamin E, and Phytosterols, AOM has officially joined the Kensing family.

• Food Additives Companies

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services is advising consumers not to eat certain Wilcox Ice Cream products produced by Wilcox Ice Cream in East Arlington, VT, because testing has shown contamination with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.

• 2023
• recalls
• Listeria
• monocytogenes bacteria

Vinyard Fruit and Vegetable Company of Oklahoma City, OK, is recalling freshcut cantaloupe products because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

• Vineyard Fruit and Vegetable Company
• 2023 recalls
• Salmonella
• cantaloupe

The NCBA urged the USDA to continue blocking fresh beef imports from Paraguay until a comprehensive review can be conducted to ensure the safety and equivalence of Paraguay's beef production for U.S. consumers and livestock.

• USDA
• Paraguay

On November 14, 2023, Health Canada issued consultation document PSRD2023-02, and the Pest Management Regulatory Authority (PMRA) conducted a special review of Fosetyl-aluminum and its end-use products.

• Health Canada
• PMRA
• Fosetyl-aluminum
• Aluminum Ethylphosphonate