News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
The EU has outlined future border controls for animal livestock and meat products as the run up to accession moves into its final stages. The move aims to limit the spread of animal-borne disease in an enlarged European Union.
The European Commission has approved Air Liquide's proposed acquisition of Messer Griesheim's industrial gas business in Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA. The acquisition alters the balance of power in Europe's industrial gas market, a market...
Retailers and food manufacturers are working more closely than ever to create products designed for contemporary lifestyles, based on the latest technology. This has resulted in an explosion in the market for ready to eat meals, a market in which...
A lack of integration at a European level is 'severely hampering' efforts to co-ordinate stakeholder efforts - food industry and independent scientists - in the area of chemical contaminants in food, warn Swedish scientists. But Commission funds worth...
Food manufacturer Campbell has installed real time forecasting (RTF) technology in its North American soup, sauces, and beverage production facilities. Results from a pilot test showed that the company can decrease its short-term forecast error by 50...
Food manufacturers using the sweetener cyclamate face change as they come to grips with new European rules that radically reduce the use of this man-made, non-caloric sweetener 30 times as sweet as sucrose. German ingredients firm Nutrinova has come...