News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
The owner of Mars and Snickers chocolate brands, Masterfoods, has pledged to stop marketing its products to children younger than 12 - a move that is sure to increase consumer confidence in the brand and appease advertising regulators.
A new machine can fill and seal up to 30 pots of soup per minute without spilling a drop, claims its manufacturer.
DuPont said yesterday it has developed new technologies that will allow the company to eliminate perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from packaging by 2015, a move made due to consumers' health concerns about the chemical.
Three types of alloy surfaces containing at least 90 per cent copper completely eliminate E. coli O157:H7, according to an ongoing UK study of the pathogen-killing properties of the metal.
A commonly used global identification standard would improve logistics and should be adopted by the produce sector, according to a food industry association.