Diamond Foods to build innovation center
Diamond Foods will pool snack NPD efforts under one roof with its first dedicated innovation center.
Archives for October 7, 2014
Dispatches: AACCI annual meeting 2014
Cottonseed: The next big GMO-free protein for snacks?
The by-product from non-genetically modified, food grade cottonseed packs high levels of protein into extruded snacks, says a professor from New Mexico State University.
A glut of gluten approvals for Romer Labs
Romer Labs gluten G12 rapid tests have received AOAC approval to ensure that food producers meet the necessary standards and requirements.
JBT to debut Formcook acquisition at FoodTech
Food processing equipment manufacturer JBT has acquired Formcook, the long-established manufacturer of Teflon contact and combi cookers based in Helsingborg, Sweden.
EU Food & Consumer business to focus on flexible packaging
Coveris to close its resin resale operation
Coveris has announced plans to close its resin resale operation, which currently operates within the company’s European Food & Consumer business unit.
'It's a great change...': Japanese food industry readies for new health claim laws in 2015
Japan’s innovative but restricted €25bn functional foods and food supplements sector is about to be handed a set of game-changing marketing keys by the government, industry players told us at Health Ingredients-Japan in Tokyo today.
Cassava shapes up as an alternative source for starch sweeteners
New research led by Du Pont Industrial Biosciences concludes that enzyme technology currently used with maize and wheat could be applied far more widely to cassava root starch to produce sweeteners such as glucose, fructose and maltose.
"As a member of Parliament, I need facts. And I think you, the food industry, have the resources to find those."
MEP defends EU novel foods laws against innovation attacks
The food industry should provide facts if it expects EU decision makers to consider dismantling the controversial novel foods regulation it has long-argued discourages innovation, a UK member of the European Parliament (MEP) said at a workshop in...