News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
A new means of on-site fuel generation for potato processing facilities using recovered potato waste solids has been discovered. The breakthrough could help companies achieve energy savings while at the same time operate in a more environmentally...
UK snack company Sundora Foods has relaunched its range of dried fruit in innovative new packaging. The company chose Amcor Flexible's patented new FlexCan as the concept offers consumers an easy open and re-closable, stand-up flexible container with...
US biotech crop pioneer Monsanto is to suspend the introduction of the world's first biotech wheat, amidst public outcry at the possible risks of genetically modified crops and at Monsanto's aggressive marketing tactics, writes Kevin Phillips.
Britain may be Europe's biggest snack food market, but changing habits in continental Europe mean that even the staunchest supporters of traditional gastronomy - the French - are increasingly snacking between meals, according to a new Datamonitor report.
Leading Ukrainian poultry processor CJSC Myronivsky Khliboproduct has confirmed the lauch of a new oilseed processing plant, in a move which the company says will help it to save costs at its poultry processing division.
Last year Denmark became the first country in the world to ban trans fats from food products over fears these hydrogenated fats could contribute to heart disease. While the EU has yet to reach a position on the labelling of these artery-clogging fats,...
Plzenskly Prazdroj, part of the SABMiller group, has launched a low alcohol lemon-apple flavoured malt drink onto the Czech market, the first of its kind.
Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor, has installed a technology platform to complete the integration of its operating units. The mySAP business suite is designed to establish best practice business processes and optimise efficiency across...
Probiotics in capsule form have been around for a few years, as dietary supplement manufacturers seek to take advantage of the growing awareness of their beneficial effect on gut health. But some consumers do not like taking capsules, prompting Danish...
The Beverage Can Makers in Europe (BCME) has welcomed the advocate general's conclusions in the EU Court cases regarding the German packaging regime. He found that the discriminatory elements of the German packaging order regarding the refill...