Sweetener safety review
The European Parliament has cleared amendments to the sweetener directive, but only after setting up a trail of conditions - including a closer monitoring of new sweeteners.
Archives for November 5, 2003
Cadbury repackages for India
Cadbury India has announced that it is to change the packaging for its Dairy Milk chocolate bar following last month's allegations that a batch had been infested with insects. The consumer scare is believed to have seriously impacted sales of the...
Sustainable solutions
Finnish giant Stora Enso is the latest packaging firm to address growing environmental concerns. The firm has stated that it aims to maximise the volume of wood it uses originating from third party certified forests.
Kids' food 'damages health' claims CA
Food and drink products targeted at children could be seriously damaging their health, according to claims by the UK Consumers' Association. It said that many products targeted at childen had higher salt or sugar contents than their adult equivalents,...
All wrapped up
A current trend among food manufacturers has been the adoption of high speed production methods. Swedish-based packaging firm Tetra Pak has launched a new product, Film Wrapper 68 - Speed, which is the latest addition to the firm's speed packaging line.
High protection
Voridian has launched a new PET resin that provides ultraviolet (UV) light protection for food and beverage products. The product contains an FDA-approved UV absorber that protects delicate colours, flavours, vitamins and nutrients in custom packaging...
Kerrygold boosts production capacity
Irish dairy firm Kerrygold has installed Ilapak's Delta 3000 HSR inverted, electronic flow-wrapper system and the Vegatronic 2000 fill and seal (VFFS) series. This is hoped to boost production capacity.
Solid peformance from sugar leader
British Sugar's parent company, cash-rich Associated British Foods (ABF), delivered a strong set of results for the year with the food and agriculture division pulling in the highest operating profit for the full year for the group. But uncertainties...