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Calls to reduce salt in processed foods

15-Jan-2003 - Last week we reported on a new initiative launched by the Scottish Executive to improve the eating regime of the Scots in a bid to...

Britain top of the European snacks league

15-Jan-2003 - Further confirmation that the UK consumer is a snack fiend is highlighted in a new report that suggests they eat more snacks than their counterparts...

Members show support for Codex

15-Jan-2003 - A recently published joint report from the FAO and WHO that set out to evaluate the Codex Alimentarius Commission reveals the overwhelming belief from Codex...

Snacks set to benefit from home eating trend

13-Jan-2003 - The consumer of today and tomorrow will eat fewer dinners in the home, opting instead to dine out for convenience reasons, claims a new report...

Understanding the wheat genome

16-Dec-2002 - In a move to boost industry research and enhance nutritional applications of wheat and other major cereal crops, chemical giant DuPont announced this week that...

Acrylamide: US group refutes danger

16-Dec-2002 - Is acrylamide a health hazard in foods? The debate continues this week with scientists associated with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) stating...

US: acrylamide findings

05-Dec-2002 - The US Food and Drug Administration this week published its initial, and incomplete, investigations into the presence of acrylamide in certain US foods. In April...

New rules for flavourings

03-Dec-2002 - In the same week that the Agriculture Council cleared the way for tougher GM legislation in Europe, the European Commission has announced a new proposal...

Wheat starches show strong growth

13-Nov-2002 - US ingredients company MGP Ingredients suffered a net loss for the current year's first quarter as higher grain prices and reduced sales in distillery products...

Crusts could be cancer-fighters

05-Nov-2002 - For centuries Man has chewed on the faithful crust of the land - bread. Produced, in some form or other, in almost every food culture...

Oats - the health choice for consumers

25-Oct-2002 - Positive links between oats and heart health figure highly in the consciousness of the consumer, according to a recent survey conducted by the US Natural...

Fluor to build hi-tech bakery

15-Oct-2002 - In the US, Fluor has been awarded a contract for the new King's Hawaiian Harbor Gateway facility in Los Angeles. Fluor's scope of services includes...

Solutions to acrylamide?

11-Oct-2002 - When scientists from Sweden reported earlier this year that several ordinary foodstuffs could contain high levels of acrylamide - a potentially cancer-causing chemical - governments,...

Acrylamide - getting to the root of the problem

01-Oct-2002 - New research by US food producer Procter & Gamble has shed some light on the formation of acrylamide in foods, a significant step forward in...

Food recycling

30-Sep-2002 - Unsold bakery products may well become the animal feed of tomorrow, following moves by a US company to recycle foods more efficiently, according to a...

Energy bars go mainstream

06-Sep-2002 - While the market for energy drinks has become increasingly mainstream over the last few years, at least in the UK, the market for energy bars...

Evidence for wholegrains confirmed, again

29-Jul-2002 - A diet rich in wholegrains protects against cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers thanks to their beneficial effects on risk factors such...

Striving for bakery perfection

08-Jul-2002 - Baking is probably one of the oldest food industries there is. Bread has been made, in various forms, for thousands of years and in many...

Tasty Baking names head of manufacturing

24-Jun-2002 - Joseph Bauerhas has been named vice president manufacturing at Tasty Baking Company, one of the largest independent bakeries in the US. Bauer, 55, will assume...

Health trend changes face of snacking

14-Jun-2002 - The UK snacks sector is coming under increasing pressure from competing markets with sugar and chocolate confectionery particularly hard hit by the consumer desire for...

Fazer to build new bakery

22-May-2002 - Bakery giant Fazer Leipomot (Fazer Bakeries), a subsidiary of Finnish food giant Fazer Group, has revealed that it is to build a new 1,800 square...

Bread, biscuits and crisps could be causing cancer

25-Apr-2002 - Bread, biscuits, crisps and french fries, foods frequently eaten by millions of people around the world, contain alarmingly high quantities of a cancer-causing chemical, according...

Bakery industry poll looks at healthy products

02-Apr-2002 - Consumers might be interested in healthy bakery products but are still not buying enough to merit dramatic changes in the production for the bakery industry,...

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