News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
US-based Effica has applied for authorisation to market a concentrate produced from the hardy kiwi as a food ingredient in Europe under novel foods legislation, which would pave the way for it to be used in a variety of food products.
Dutch company CSM will continue to concentrate its manufacturing in the US by transferring the production of a subsidiary to other CSM North America plants.
A conference to discuss how collecting data on the composition of food can help improve the quality, healthiness and safety of European diets has been called for later this year.
In 2006, the price of beverages was on average two and a half times more in the most expensive EU country than in the cheapest, according to a Eurostat report.
France's EPI Ingredients is expanding its supply milk powders with a new deal with Belgian dairy firm Solarec, which will give it the rights to commercialise all the powders produced at the latter's Recongne-Libramont facility.