News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
A US manufacturer of frozen and refrigerated products has installed a software system designed to optimise its production processes. Food manufacturers are increasingly looking to IT as a means of getting their products out of the factory and onto...
French closures company Sabaté has developed a new wine cork that has been treated with a TCA-extraction process. The technology is designed to solve the problem of corkage, while avoiding the need to use unpopular closures such as twist caps and...
A Californian consumer group in the US has called for beef sold in the state to carry country-of-origin labels, and claims that supermarket giant Safeway has been selling unlabelled beef from Canada, where a feeding practice linked to mad cow disease...
Valio is to launch its probiotic cheese in Belgium, the first country outside its home market, where cheese is a fast-growing new application area for the health-promoting bacteria, writes Dominique Patton.
Britain's supermarkets are not doing enough to support the country's organic farming industry, buying in produce from abroad despite sufficient supplies in the domestic market, claims the Soil Association. But there are also quality and safety issues...