News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
About 5 per cent of mixed raw vegetable salads in the UK are contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to a national survey that uncovered two products with levels above the EU's regulatory limit.
A naturally-occurring bacteriophage that kills Listeria on foods has been approved for use oncheese products in the US.
A new fat replacer from hydrocolloid firm Gum Technology has been designed specifically to interact with the milk proteins present in dairy goods, and claims to cut fat by up to 10 percent in milk-based products.
The shake-up of Europe's sugar industry is already having an effect on internal EU-25 trade, according to a recent USDA report.
Disruption to cocoa supplies from the Cote d'Ivoire has ceased following suspension of strikes organised by the cacao growers' trade union Anaproci.
One of the world's biggest food packaging and processing exhibitions begins in the US city ofChicago next week, bringing together new technologies and techniques under one roof.