Pinnacle Foods to acquire Boulder Brands for $975 million
25 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The acquisition expands Pinnacle’s presence in growing and complementary health and wellness categories...
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The Hershey Company launches ‘simpler’ chocolate products
25 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The Hershey Company’s new Holiday Hershey’s Kisses Milk Chocolates and Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars, to be launched in the US, are made with simple ingredients and no artificial flavour.
Researchers assess online raw milk cheese products
24 November 2015 | By Victoria White
A group of researchers from the Institute of Milk Hygiene at the Vetmeduni Vienna have analysed raw milk cheese ordered online to find out if the products adhere to hygienic rules...
Nestlé to tackle human rights abuses in its seafood supply chain
24 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Nestlé has published an Action Plan on seafood sourced from Thailand following concerns about labour and human rights abuses in the company’s seafood supply chain...
EFSA issues favourable Scientific Opinion of thaumatin
24 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Thaumatin is a multi-functional food additive derived from the fruit Thaumatococcus Danielli that improves the taste profile of foods and beverages...
Arla Food Ingredients’ Health to-Go offers hungry urbanites a convenient fix
24 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Health to-Go solution is a combination of Nutrilac PB-8420 proteins and Capolac calcium from milk...
Campden BRI consumer test centre opens in the Midlands
23 November 2015 | By
The centre will support innovation and insights into new product development and provide quantitative and qualitative consumer research on food and drink products...
Impossible Foods appoints new COO and CFO
23 November 2015 | By
David Lee will become the company's new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer from 14 December 2015...
Leading ingredient suppliers from China to exhibit at Fi Europe
23 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Visitors to Fi Europe will have the chance to meet more than 250 food and beverage leading ingredient suppliers from China at the China Pavilion...
FDA approves genetically engineered salmon for human consumption
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
AquAdvantage Salmon is an Atlantic salmon that reaches market size more quickly than non-genetically engineered farm-raised Atlantic salmon...
EC announces funds to boost research into Xylella fastidiosa
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Since October 2013, a strain of this bacterium is spreading in Apulia (Italy) in its ancient olive groves. The region provides much of the country’s olive oil exports to the world...
Retailers ‘getting to grips’ with campylobacter, says FSA
20 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The FSA has published the first set of results from its second year survey of campylobacter on fresh shop-bought chickens...
ConAgra Foods announces plans to split into two companies
19 November 2015 | By Victoria White
One company will comprise its robust consumer portfolio of diverse and leading brands and the other will comprise its foodservice portfolio of frozen potato products...
Fonterra sells its 50% stake in DairiConcepts to DFA
19 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Fonterra has decided to exit the partnership as it was considered to be a non-core component of its strategy...
Naturex to bring Barry Callebaut’s cocoa extract health claim to food supplements
19 November 2015 | By Victoria White
For a period of five years, Barry Callebaut is licensing its approved 13.5 EFSA health claim on cocoa flavanols for cocoa extract products to Naturex...
