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Food labelling consultants, as well as many manufacturers and packaging vendors, are likely in a spin of busy-ness as March 1 approaches and R146 kicks into action. Two leading labelling experts, Nigel Sunley and Moira Byers of the Consulting in Food Labelling team, found some...
Tesco has become the latest of the big chain grocery stores to try out new packaging that it hopes will keep its fresh lines fresh. The trials will begin with packaging for tomatoes and avocados as these are known to be the...
Nestlé South Africa has officially opened its tenth manufacturing facility in South Africa, a new coffee creamer factory in Potchefstroom, North West province. The new facility will manufacture Cremora coffee creamer, adding capacity to the existing creamer manufacturing facility in Babelegi,...
The FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Awards are an integral part of Fruit Logistica, the annual global trade show for fresh produce held annually in Berlin, attracting worldwide media interest. They are presented to honour outstanding innovations in the fresh produce sector and its service industries. Expo...
Studies have proven that pathogens such as Campylobacter and Salmonella contaminate a high percentage of raw chicken meat. Now, recent research from a food safety team at Pennsylvania's Drexel University offers proof-of-concept for what may one day be a common approach to preventing food-borne illness...
US food company, Hostess, the maker of the famous/infamous Twinkie, has been much in the headlines as it announced it would be filing for bankruptcy, a victim as much of its own business problems as well as changing consumer tastes. This TIME Top...
Pick n Pay has announced that CEO Nick Badminton would resign from the board of Pick n Pay effective the end of the financial year but would be available to assist the company and its chairman in the transition period.
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Creating New Foods: The Product Developer's Guide – the Web Edition, is a FREE web-based e-book that will be of value to all involved in any aspect of new product development. This is an initiative of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology...
Sports science expert Professor Tim Noakes has caused something of a stir in health circles by refuting his own nutritional advice, widely espoused as athletics gospel. In an about-turn, Noakes is blaming food containing carbohydrates for the rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
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Dutch artist, Christien Meindertsma, uses art (and craft) to expose the hidden processes and connections of our modern life. One of her award-winning projects, now housed by New York's Museum of Modern Art, was to document the astounding array of products that different parts...
Chlorine is a commonly used tool of the fresh-cut produce industry to prevent cross-contamination in the wash flume. But a high organic load, as is common in fresh-cut produce, reduces the efficacy of chlorine by using up free chlorine. A new chlorine stabiliser called SmartWash...
With the spectre of past deadly poisonings, the US food industry is stepping up its quest for clean salad greens, testing various industrial washes and other methods like ultrasound....
PepsiCo has announced that Diet Mountain Dew, Brisk and Starbucks ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages have each grown to more than $1 billion in annual retail sales, expanding PepsiCo's portfolio of billion-dollar brands to 22. PepsiCo offers the world's largest portfolio of billion-dollar...
It’s a drink you can chew, a carton crammed with bits of vegetables, fruit, coconut flakes, nuts or cereal grains. Sound possible? It is now with drinksplus technology, one of the latest innovations from Swiss-based SIG Combibloc, one of the world’s leading...
Kraft Foods has launched what it claims is a new breakfast category in the US with the introduction of belVita Breakfast Biscuits. Specially baked with whole grain, belVita Breakfast Biscuits are lightly sweet, crunchy biscuits that provide nutritious sustained energy that lasts all morning.
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Bonaqua, the bottled water brand of The Coca-Cola Company South Africa, has a stylish new look featuring a revitalised logo and an eye-catching label design in a new lightweighted bottle.
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With health claims virtually wholly bombed by EFSA, now the European Parliament has voted against allowing companies to flag reformulated recipes on-pack - such as a "Now contains X% less? claim - a move that has been met with dismay by food manufacturers.
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In the US, when Miller Lite convinced men that a less-filling beer could still be macho, it became clear that lower-calorie, healthier offerings made sense. But the transition to better-for-you products requires navigating deftly between seeing the future - ie more...
Kraft Foods reports that sustainability programs have seen the giant group reduce manufacturing waste by 50% since 2005, and that it now boasts 36 facilities in 13 countries that send zero waste to landfills....