Canada’s animal care council dragging heels on battery-cage egg ban, claim lobby groups
Mercy For Animals (MFA) contends the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) is still behind the times in outlawing caged egg production.
Archives for December 14, 2016
ADM expands sweetener manufacturing in Europe: ‘End of the sugar regime’
Global ingredient producer ADM is pushing harder into the European starch and sweetener market, announcing the acquisition of major production facilities in Turkey and Bulgaria on Monday in the wake of changing EU sugar laws.
‘Biggest growth area for liquid packaging is southeast Asia’
BillerudKorsnäs to build ‘world’s largest’ packaging board machine for $622m
BillerudKorsnäs, which manufactures confectionery, snacks and beverage packaging, is investing SEK 5.7bn ($622.25m) in a KM7 (Karton Machine) to produce liquid board, cartonboard and liner at its factory in Gruvön, Sweden, to start operations in Q1, 2019.
Ethical certification promises much - but it's been a tough year
Back in 2014 I interviewed Hans Jöhr, who at the time was corporate head of agriculture at Nestlé. We had a (refreshingly) open discussion about certification schemes. Some of them are “cheating consumers” and “cannot help farmers be better farmers per...
SternLife serves up high-protein breakfast ideas for food manufacturers
The German functional food specialist has launched a range of protein-fortified products to put onto the breakfast table.
NutraIngredients is hiring
Can you break news in multiple formats? Are you comfortable interviewing a CEO or Greenpeace protester, food scientist, politician or legal hound? Do you have the temperament to handle daily deadlines as you work on Europe’s leading nutrition sector...