Archives for May 24, 2004

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Vaccines to fight food pathogens

Vaccines to combat a number of foodborne pathogens such as Listeria could be commercially available in the near future, a breakthrough which would "greatly enhance human health and wellbeing worldwide," according to US researchers.

Numico buys Valio's baby food business

Leading formula maker Royal Numico is to buy the baby food business of Finland's Valio for €57 million in cash, the companies revealed yesterday.

Berner to increase efficiency with ERP software

Berner Foods, a supplier of food products including processed cheese, natural cheese and soy beverages, has installed enterprise software in order to meet critical US federal regulations and to streamline its private-label manufacturing.

Buhler installs new milling concept

Dutch feed manufacturing firm De Heus-Brokking-Koudijs recently installed two new high-tech roller mills at its Ravenstein plant with the aim of producing poultry feed more efficiently. To carry out the project, engineering firm Buhler took the...