02 Feb Swift Micro Laboratories launches new office in George
Swift Micro Laboratories has opened a new office in George - and its full portfolio of services will now be on offer to customers as far afield as Beaufort West and Hermanus. ...
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02 Feb Growing meat in the lab
In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, MD, PhD, has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr Mironov, 56, is one of...
02 Feb New report questions health benefits of olive oil
EVOO -- extra virgin olive oil. Everywhere we turn it is recommended that it be added to almost everything we eat in order to reap the health benefits of this numero uno oil. But I hate to burst the bubble: new reports...
29 Jan Care for some human cheese?
Would you try a slice of human cheese? I've asked this question at a dinner of artists and sustainable food advocates, at dinner with my family, and in conversation with friends. There are the brave few who say they'd be interested...
25 Jan Strategic partnership between Vitiva and Savannah in South Africa
Vitiva, Slovenia, has announced strategic partnership with South African ingredient supplier Savannah Fine Chemicals, to promote its rosemary-based Oxidation Management System portfolio in the local market....
22 Jan Rosemary extracts given the EU nod
Rosemary extracts were adopted into European Union legislation at the end of 2010, allowing food companies in the region to use the label, ‘antioxidant: rosemary extract’. ...
07 Jan POM Wonderful’s penchant for litigation
One of the busiest law firms in the US over the past year has been Roll Law Group, perhaps better known as the in-house team for POM Wonderful, a pomegranate juice purveyor with a penchant for high-profile litigation.
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06 Jan The top 10 life-forms living on Lady Gaga and you
Outrageous rocker, Lady Gaga, made headlines last year with her sirloin beef outfit. But as this wonderful article from Scientific American proposes, when she cloaked herself in another species, she was just making visible what goes on every day less conspicuously. ...
06 Jan Frito-Lay goes au naturel
That nebulous, indefinable word "natural" has hit the top of the trends charts early this year, with PepsiCo walking its much-vaunted talk to produce healthier offerings.
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06 Jan Putting sexy into soybean curd
If anyone can get Americans to eat tofu, it's John Scharffenberger. In the 1980s, the serial foodie made American-produced sparkling wines hot and then in the 1990s, he got people buying gourmet chocolate rectangles (under the brand Scharffen Berger,...
06 Jan Fish farming’s new frontiers
Given the environmental issues that have dogged fish farming down the years - pollution, disease, the need for wild fish to feed to the farmed ones - how can the industry expand so far without creating major problems? And where are all...
20 Dec FOODStuff SA’s Best and Worst of 2010
Scouring through the year's newsletters, we've come up with a list of the best, the worst and a heap of other accolades (or not) that have marked 2010. This list is entirely, unashamedly subjective! Herewith, the 2010 FOODStuff SA Best and Worst...
02 Dec Sunspray turns to nature for rodent control
Confronted with an infestation of rodents, Sunspray Food Ingredients in Johannesburg has successfully turned to nature for help - and it's a heartwarming story.
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25 Nov Changes to new labelling regulations
The much-debated, long-awaited new food labelling regulations (R146) finally appeared in the Government Gazette in March 2010. Despite lengthy, if not excruciating, public consultation and expert input over 12 years, their final garb still drew much irritation from several unhappy sectors...
25 Nov Changes to new labelling regulations
The much-debated, long-awaited new food labelling regulations (R146) finally appeared in the Government Gazette in March this year. Despite lengthy, if not excruciating, public consultation and expert input over 12 years, their final garb still drew much irritation from several unhappy ...
25 Nov World Food Science Congress donation feeds hungry families
The WARMTH (War against Malnutrition, Tuberculosis and Hunger) project of the Catholic Welfare Development in Cape Town is the deserving recipient of the charity drive at August's IUFoST 15th World Congress of Food Science and Technology.
...12 Nov DoH responds to claims on non-safe food
Following a written question in Parliament by the DA recently, it has emerged that a large number of food samples tested by government authorities are harmful to consumers or not what manufacturers claim on the labels.
04 Nov Simba flavour winner announced
Simba has announced the winner of its innovative "What's Your Lekker Flavour?" competition.
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22 Oct Happy 50th birthday, Orley Foods!
Orley Foods, the quietly iconic food ingredients company based in Cape Town, is celebrating a half century in business.
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21 Oct SIAL 2010: The best of the best
From Canada, the Honibe Honey Drop has taken the top award in the SIAL d'Or awards, being named as the winner of the Global SIAL dOr 2010, at one of the worlds largest food tradeshows, held in strike-bound Paris this week.
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