News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
A new Russian food standard (GOST) concerning consumer information on packaged food products is due to come into force on 1 January 2005. Angela Drujinina looks at how the change will effect consumers and food manufacturers, and its potential impact...
China continues to pull on global commodities with demand for US soybeans rising in 2004/05 by nearly 50 per cent on the previous year, reports Lindsey Partos. China's total contracts for soybeans reached 6.6 million tonnes by 18 November, a 44 per...
Nearly half of the world's vanillin supplies are sourced from China but since tighter production rules arrived there a few years ago there are now only two major Chinese producers left in the country, reports Lindsey Partos. With a recent Chinese...