24 Jul US: Mars, Nestlé, Unilever and Danone form their own industry group
A year after America’s powerful food lobby, the GMA, began to implode, four of the world’s largest food companies are launching an association of their own.
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24 Jul UK: Mondelez to launch reduced-sugar Cadbury Dairy Milk bar
Cadbury is to launch a new version of its famous purple-liveried Dairy Milk bars with 30% less sugar. It will be released next year in a bid to tackle the UK’s rising obesity levels (and stop the government introducing a sugar levy on confectionery).
24 Jul IFT18 honours future food disruptors
Six forward-thinking entrepreneurs pitched their companies in the inaugural Food Disruption Challenge competition at the annual IFT18 expo and congress in Chicago last week. The winner is ....
24 Jul Product safety and quality headline innovation awards at IFT18
This year's IFT18 expo in Chicago again made key awards for food science innovation, with IFT President-Elect Designate, Pam Coleman, presenting three companies — Handary, Kancor Ingredients and Novolyze — with the 2018 IFT Food Expo Innovation Awards.
23 Jul CNN interview: Meet Pioneer Foods CEO Tertius Carstens
In a recent episode of CNN Marketplace Africa, Pioneer Foods CEO, Tertius Carstens, outlined the company's journey from its beginning in 1997 and describe some of the challenges the company has had to overcome.
18 Jul The original Paleo Diet: Ancient Iceman’s stomach contents reveal last meal
Many years on from his discovery, scientists have now inveiled what a Copper Age mummified man had for his last meal....[Tim Noakes would approve!]
18 Jul SA cake decorating products found unfit for consumption
You probably wouldn’t dream of eating the glitter sold in stationery and craft shops‚ but it's now alleged that almost all the glitter sprinkled on iced cakes has no business inside a human body either.
10 Jul Latest updates on SA’s deadly listeria outbreak
The catastrophic listeriosis outbreak is all but over, but it's still in the news. As of July 26, 2018, a total of 1,060 cases and 216 deaths from all provinces across the country were reported by the NICD since January 1, 2017. Here are historic and latest updates and news on the outbreak, and much more.....
09 Jul The Allulose potential: “real sugar without calories”
A German start-up, Savanna Ingredients, is looking to scale the production of allulose monosaccharide, also known as allulose, which is a rare but up and coming natural sugar that it positions as “real sugar without calories”.
09 Jul Blockchain: A safe link in the food chain
Blockchain, the technology that records information and is most famous for powering cryptocurrencies, could be an answer to SA’s food safety issues, if technology pundits are to be believed.
08 Jul KFC is experimenting with vegetarian fried chicken
Kentucky Fried Chicken may just have to change its name to Kentucky Faux Chicken.
08 Jul Choke-proof food that tastes like the real thing
In Japan, where more people die each year from choking than in traffic accidents, mushy food is getting a high-tech treatment.
08 Jul SA’s listeria outbreak and the Swiss Cheese model of disaster
"Having spent the last 20 years of my life invested in food safety management systems in the South African food industry, I have to say the Listeriosis outbreak has caused some self-doubt. What have we done wrong? What have we missed?" These are some very big questions asked by Linda Jackson of compliance website and consultancy, FoodFocus.
08 Jul Vanilla’s high cost spells trouble for Madagascar
These days, vanilla theft is a big business in Madagascar. That may seem like a distant problem, but its repercussions are likely to be felt at across the globe....
07 Jul The dangers of a raw food pet diet – for you and for them
In the last few months South Africa's listeriosis crisis has highlighted to the public how to avoid becoming ill from pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes. The potential risks associated with raw foods including poultry and meat have been stressed, and these risks are not just for humans.
06 Jul Zeder invests in high tech agribusinesses
The JSE-listed agribusiness investment company has backed two new start-ups, part of Zeder's transition from focusing mainly on investments in agricultural co-operatives to holding interests in high-tech businesses across the food and beverage value chain.
28 Jun Philafrica Foods eyes more deals after acquiring Simba co-packer
South Africa-based agri-food group, Philafrica Foods, is weighing up more acquisitions in the packaged food sector to follow its acquisition of Pakworks, local contract manufacturers of savoury snacks for Simba (PepsiCo) chips based in Heilbron, Free State.
28 Jun SA’s new food safety regulation R638 gazetted to replace R962
Compliance with the food legislation is step one in any food business's journey towards Food Safety System Certification. The R638 “Regulations Governing General Hygiene Requirements for Food Premises, the Transport of Food and Related Matters” which replaces the R962, was recently gazetted, and is more stringent on the GMPs than the previous version.
27 Jun YQ yogurt – smart thinking from Yoplait
Smarter, not sweeter. That’s the philosophy behind new YQ by Yoplait, in the General Mills' stable and once the US's biggest yogurt player, in a bid to boost its fortunes in the wake of several years of sales decline thanks to the ballistic rise of Greek yogurt.
27 Jun UK: Sweets, snacks at checkouts to be banned
Parents will no longer be forced to run the gauntlet of ‘candy canyon’ racks of sweets at store checkouts under new UK government plans to tackle obesity.
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