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Natural sweetener stevia plant genome sequenced for the first time
The findings, co-funded by Coca Cola, were unveiled by PureCircle Stevia Institute at the International Congress of Nutrition in Buenos Aires last week.
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Get set for Brexit – see the full line up for Food Brexit, chaired by the John Pienaar
With less than a week to go, time is running out to catch food business experts putting their heads together over the challenges of Brexit.
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Is your baby food product fully protected?
After a recent blackmail case in Germany in which baby food was poisoned with ethylene glycol, we hear from Mettler Toledo about tampering protection.
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A chance to hear what leading food industry figures think of Brexit – right on parliament’s doorstep
New Food is bringing together a host of experts from all over the industry in the heart of London to outline where they think Brexit is headed.
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British biscuit giants could soon become one in £400 million merger
Sky News has reported 2 Sisters Food Group-owned Burton's and Fox's are in merger talks which, if successful, could munch 20 per cent of the market.
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Three quarters of world’s honey contaminated with bee-killing chemical
A two-year study tested honey samples from all over the world for neonics - and found them in abundance...
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Millennials’ tastes mean golden days for coconut
The coconut is in the midst of a renaissance with research showing millennials have developed a firm fancy for the fruit.
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From the Valleys to the Big Apple: Welsh food producers to tap American market
American consumers may develop a taste for Welsh as 15 food and drink companies jet across the Atlantic.
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Exploring the ‘Natural’ claim in China: An overview and comparison with EU and US
Expert lawyers Nicola Aporti and Cesare Varallo explore the 'natural' claim in China: it's criteria, its differences between EU and US markets, and what might change moving forward.
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Eat the food you trust; trust the food you eat | Lessons from Food Fraud 2017
Food Fraud 2017 highlighted just how serious an issue food fraud has become. It's organised, criminal and widespread, but there are solutions that we must explore...
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Nestlé to axe 300 jobs in the UK
Confectionery multinational Nestlé is to axe up to 300 jobs from the UK and to move Blue Riband chocolate biscuit to Poland sources have warned.
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Sweet truths: Solving confectionery’s problem with sugar reduction
New Food asked Noam Kaplan, CEO at Lampados to talk us through the role sweeteners can play and to offer us an insight into how we might provide an attractive alternative to sugar.
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Join the movement to make sustainable chocolate the norm
The cocoa and chocolate industry is currently running against a fundamentally unsustainable model. Barry Callebaut's Peter Boone urges change...
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Hollywood’s answer to the sugar reduction conundrum facing confectionery
15 March 2017 | By Roy Manuell | Digital Editor
Disney's new children's 100% fruit confectionery range is a model for how to successfully reduce sugar while maintaining a quality of taste to keep kids coming back...
