News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Imperial Sugar received an offer of acquisition earlier this week, while Cargill announced its intentions to further invest in Brazilian sugar and General Mills had its rating outlook revised from negative to stable.
Trans fatty acids could 'modestly' increase the risk of gallstone disease, say US researchers, providing yet more evidence to encourage food makers to remove these fats from food formulations.
President Bush reiterated the importance of using current WTO talks to expand foreign food export opportunities during the swearing in ceremony of US trade representative Robert Portman this week, writes Anthony Fletcher.
Deep divisions over biotech food ingredients once again evident as member states fail to approve a gene-altered corn designed by US biotech giant Monsanto, reports Lindsey Partos.
A new DNA-based test could make the identification of fungi that cause Fusarium head blight (FHB) in cereal grains far easier to detect.