Growing pressure on food manufacturers to cut salt levels has led
to a frantic search for alternatives. Joan Watsabaugh tells
FoodNavigator-USA.com why AlsoSalt could provide the
industry with a viable solution.
A microwavable material, made of aluminum and polyester laminated
to a paperboard base, will give food processors another option for
their ready-to-eat fish products.
Women planning to have a baby should increase their folate intake
if they want their child to reach optimal weight, finds new
research that links the vitamin for the first time to birth weight.
A team of UK scientists will analyse and demonstrate how
bioinformatics could help food companies improve their products,
from pin-pointing allergy-causing proteins to identifying the cause
of batch spoilage.
UK biscuit maker McVitie's is to cut 33 jobs at its Carlisle
factory, after damage caused by floods in January permanently
disabled four production lines, reducing the plant's total output
by 20 per cent.
Soy protein giant Solae is building a manufacturing facility in
China in order to tap into the country's huge potential as a major
consumer of soy protein.
Australia's food regulator, one of the toughest on fortification,
looks set to open up the market for calcium and vitamin-enriched
cereal beverages, and is also looking at sterols in juices,
writes Dominique Patton.
A high-fat diet may lead to over-consumption of tasty snacks, say
researchers involved in a rat study. They believe that regular
eating habits could affect sensitivity to a hormone that tells us
when to stop eating.
Fortifying milk with folic acid offers an accessible source of the
vitamin, report Dutch researchers who tested bioavailability of the
nutrient in a clinical trial.
The Shanklin Omni shrink wrapping machine is built to be taken
apart for cleaning and for adding other accessories, a key demand
in the current food processing market.
Tate & Lyle has launched a new ingredient solution for low-
fat, no-sugar- added ice cream for the US market and vowed to
continue its ambitious expansion plans.
Grenidea Technologies has received US certification for its food
packaging, allowing multinational companies to use its
biodegradable product in North America and Europe.
Whether it is a pork pie from Melton Mowbray or olive oil from
Nimes, every Tom, Denis and Haemon seems to believe their local
food deserves the EU's protection from big, bad corporations.
AB Enzymes will launch a new product to replace potassium bromate
in time to cash in on an increased Asian demand for substitutes,
after the substance was banned in China early this month.
Wholegrain flours that can be used to produce white baked products
are proving a hit with US bakeries looking to meet new healthy
eating guidelines, but colour is still proving a challenge,
writes Lorraine Heller.
In a bid to cash in on the growing market for radio frequency
identification (RFID) software Peak has launched a suite of choices
adjusted according to a company's size and budget.
Business is looking bleak for Atkins Nutritionals. As the
once-celebrated pioneer of a diet regime that took the world by
storm files for bankruptcy protection, Jess Halliday asks:
What went wrong?
Tate & Lyle has vowed to continue to pursue its ambitious
expansion plans despite warnings that proposed changes to the sugar
regime could begin to affect business as soon as 2007, writes
Anthony Fletcher.
Novis seeks a bright, driven food scientist for a reporter's post
in southern France. The main mission is to deepen coverage of
scientific breakthroughs in food techniques and nutritional
understanding on flagship websites, FoodNavigator.com...
Companies planning to implement radio frequency identification
(RFID) had better keep a good eye on their software suppliers, as
the market and the technology is changing rapidly.
In a move to secure its supplier base for its bakery operations and
expand its business, the UK's Real Good Food Company (RGFC) said
yesterday it would buy Napier Brown Foods, a sugar group, for
£67.7min stock.
Number one food enzyme supplier Novozymes likely to move production
to the US and China as a result of the new EU sugar reform, the
daily Berlingske Tidende reports.
A company's ability to communicate the advantages of a product can
be critical to its eventual success, a lesson that DSM Food
Specialties has clearly taken to heart.
In a bid to gain a foothold in the growing flexible packaging
market Markem has introduced two machines that transfer date coding
using a thermal process.
Cocoa compounds can be extracted and marketed as functional food
ingredients, or even synthesised for use in pharmaceuticals, said
confectionery giant Mars this week, reports Dominique
Patton.
British food group RHM last week announced it will launch a
crustless bread under its Hovis brand, targeted at young children
who only like the soft part of a loaf.
UK functional food company Provexis says a growing pipeline of
functional food products will change its fortunes, as it reports
growing losses from its Altu healthy cereal bar.
One cannot envy the chief executive faced with a scientific study
that casts doubt over the efficacy or safety of his core product.
But avoiding a sales slump, media vilification and even charges of
fraud means squaring up to such...
While retailers like Wal-Mart are forcing their suppliers to use
radio frequency identification (RFID), many are reluctant to jump
on the technological bandwagon due to the high costs involved
according to a new survey.
UK-based Spooner Industries has built a testing oven at its head
office in Ilkley, Yorkshire as part of the company's strategy to
provide customers with a better service.
Job losses at the sweetener operations of ambitious ingredients
firm Cargill are imminent as the largest private firm in the US
appears to feel the squeeze of "market conditions".
Beverage fortification solutions on display at the IFT show suggest
that manufacturers do not need to sacrifice clarity or taste in
order to meet growing consumer demand for functional products,
writes Anthony Fletcher.
China is on its way to becoming the largest exporter of tomato
paste in the world as Xinjiang Production and Construction
Corporation (XPCC) increases its production capacity for tomato
paste to 500 million tons a year, writes Hridyesh...
The latest in a series of serious accidents in UK bakeries resulted
in the death of a worker at an Allied Bakeries plant in Glasgow
last week, writes Lorraine Heller.
ADM's promotion of two innovative ingredients at the IFT conference
this week illustrates how health awareness and regulatory concerns
have shot up the industry's priority list, writes Anthony
Fletcher.
To get an idea of how a higher prices for commodities and a
competitive European food market are hurting companies' bottom
lines, one only has to look at the financial results published by
threecompanies this week.
A Europe-wide educational programme aimed at improving the
technical and managerial skills of bakery staff is due to be
introduced at a time when the European baking industry is facing an
imminent shortage of qualified personnel,...
The decrease in merger and acquisition activity in the European
food processors market in 2004 appears to have been a pause as
buyers digest previous purchases before filling up on further deals
this year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)...
UK-based Stanelco has teamed up with a tray lidding machine
manufacturer as part of the company's bid to crack the food
packaging market with its radio frequency technology.
A new low-carb cocoa, being launched by Spanish firm Natraceutical
this month, will help confectionery makers lift the fibre levels
and lower the glycaemic response of their products, reports
Dominique Patton.
In merging Xsys Print Solutions in Germany with US-based Flint to
create the world's second-largest printing ink maker, CVC Capital
Partners says it will provide its global customers, includingglobal
food processors who package...
New study that highlights a rise in sesame allergies reminds food
makers of the importance of tough European labelling rules on
allergen ingredients enforced later this year,reports Lindsey
Partos.
A campaign designed to combat the glycaemic index momentum is being
launched in the US by the Grain Foods Foundation and public
relations firm Mullen, reports Lorraine Heller.