Archives for July 27, 2004

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Tate & Lyle makes sweetener settlement

Ending a long running lawsuit the US unit of UK starch and sugar group Tate & Lyle will pay out £55 million (€89m) to settle an anti-trust lawsuit on high fructose corn syrup, a popular sweetener used by soft drinks giant Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

Suppliers implicated in Ahold investigation

Prosecutors in the US have indicated that the Ahold insider trading investigation, which has seen four former executives of the retail group's North American subsidiary US Foodservice charged with fraud, could eventually implicate employees of some of...

UK manufacturers told to clean up or face fines

UK businesses that attempt to increase profits at the expense of the environment have been told that they face tougher fines. As in previous years, a significant number of high street names were taken to court last year, including Laurent-Perrier and...

GM foods part of our future, say food scientists

Law makers, consumer groups and industry continue to clash over the use of GM ingredients in the European food chain, but a major UK-based food science body asserts this week that genetic modification has the potential to offer strong benefits -...