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As the listeriosis story has moved up the ladder from low rung to hysteria, there has been little heard from those most affected - the victims and their families. Consumer journalist, Wendy Knowler put this to rights this week, giving a slice of the human pain in this tragedy, with an interview of two families...
Innova Market Insights, a leading international market researcher, is a great source of news and information on trends and NPD which it publishes freely on its outstanding FoodIngredientsFirst.com website. Here are some of its latest insights on today's trends coming to reality on supermarket shelves around the globe.
EDITORIAL: BizNew.com's Alec Hogg writes today...
Tiger Brands CEO, Lawrence MacDougall, says there is no direct link at this moment between the deaths of 180 people infected with the listeriosis outbreak and the products from its Enterprise subsidiary.
Yesterday's announcement uncovering the culprit, at least one of them, behind SA's tragic listeriosis outbreak has seen a flood of informative and interesting reaction on Twitter....
Polony and products from an Enterprise Foods factory in Polokwane‚ Limpopo‚ are a source of the world’s largest outbreak of listeria, while RTE products from a RCL facility are also under scrutiny. Enterprise is part of Tiger Brands which last year booked R2.2bn in its 'value-added meat products' division.
It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The medical scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) have been trying to find the source of the listeriosis outbreak, but the haystack seems to grow larger by the day.
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. This article show how the renowned, but now under fire, Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-grabbing studies....
KitKat fans in the UK and Ireland will soon have a new way to enjoy confectionery as Nestlé has launched KitKat Senses, indulgent KitKat chocolates in three new, luxurious flavours: hazelnut, double chocolate and salted caramel.
Cavitation produces a bubble that rapidly collapses and becomes hotter than the sun's surface. The mantis shrimp uses it, and now so are food and drink firms, to improve flavours — from yoghurt to beer.
Unilever has taken a pioneering stance on its palm oil supply chain by being the first consumer goods company to publish in full a dossier of all the suppliers and mills that it sources from. The rare industry move is designed to show the company’s commitment to transparency.
In a move meant to appeal to consumers who want fresher fare, Kraft Heinz is investing in foods that are sold in the refrigerated perimeter section of the grocery store.
This year’s FRUIT LOGISTICA trade fair in Berlin (Feb 7-9) was once again a global hub for the fresh produce sector. As always, there was innovation aplenty on show - in a sector that's finding ever more ways to serve and profit from the health and wellness revolution....
The latest update (Feb 14) from the NICD (Nat Inst for Communicable Diseases) confirms that all nine provinces are affected; that cases have jumped from 852 on February 6 to 872 (20 more), BUT that there has been a huge jump from 107 deaths to 164! This update from expert food safety consultant, Lucia Anelich.
There is a high likelihood that South Africans may be unwittingly eating ‘natural honey’ that in fact has been mixed with syrup, says Agbiz (Agricultural Business Chamber - South Africa) agricultural economist, Wandile Sihlobo.
South African scientist, Prof Tim Noakes, will know within 30 days if his regulatory body will fail in a last-ditch attempt to find him guilty. He will also know if it will have to pay dearly for doing so.
Amid its ongoing chicken crisis, which has closed many of its UK restaurants, KFC took out a full-page ad in two tabloid papers featuring a KFC bucket adorned with the letters "FCK".
Once a very small-volume crop in the Western Cape, cherries have more than quadrupled their export market share over the last four years and continue to show excellent potential as an alternative crop.
The ever-innovative and irrepressible Charles Back of Fairview Estate in Paarl has survived a brutal attack at his farm in which he suffered a number of broken bones, making it into work the next day to demonstrate what “real work commitment looks like”.
As the death count in South Africa’s listeriosis outbreak rises, Canadian researchers are isolating bacteria from the microbiome of exotic foods to try to develop a solution.