News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
The world's largest gathering of grain-based industry professionals will convene at the annual American Association of Cereal Chemists meeting, at the end of September in Oregon, US to discuss advances in production and processing techniques.
Manugistics, a leading global provider of supply chain management solutions, has supplied the BEL food and dairy group with solutions aimed at improving its forecasting, production-capacity planning, and distribution flow optimisation.
Campaigners in the UK have begun a further assault on "artificial additives" and their potential effects on child health, writes Frost & Sullivan.
A new tool for subtyping strains of Listeria monocytogenes bacteria has been developed in America by USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists. The method is set to be particularly useful to test for strains of the bacteria on food-processing...
Ball Packaging Europe has won one gold and one bronze award for two product innovations in this year's Can of the Year Award packaging competition, which took place in Singapore recently.
Irish company Greencore, the world's biggest producer of prepared sandwiches, has reported a decline in sales for the first half of 2003.