Germany gets tough on risk foods
Food manufacturers across Germany are bracing themselves for future reform after the country's newly appointed head of the federal Insitute of Risk Assesment pledged to use "greater transparency" to make food safer.
Archives for May 21, 2003
VantagePoint and Europe Packaging form alliance
VantagePoint Systems, a developer of business management software for the packaging industry and Europe Packaging Solutions, a systems solution provider, today announced an alliance to offer VantagePoint's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to...
Kraft upgrades container management
Kraft Foods has upgraded its container management in the US using a solution provided by assets management provider, TrenStar.
DS Smith confirms Rapak acquisition
After an 18 month period of consolidation, DS Smith has confirmed the total acquisition of Rapak Asia Pacific, formerly a 50 per cent owned joint venture with AEP Industries.
So, what is fibre?
In the US, the American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC) is up in arms this week claiming that new definitions for dietary fibre compiled by Food Nutrition Board (FNB) are totally inadequate.