The multi-national has pledged to improve the nutritional values across its plant-based drinks portfolio as part of a range of measures that will include investing US$22m in various initiatives to promote health and wellbeing.
Product recalls in the US are tracking well above last year and are on course to be more than four times higher, delegates to the International Production and Processing Expo in Atlanta were warned.
Canada's food safety officials have been forced to defend themselves over claims that they instructed inspectors to ignore safety controls for meat processed at XL Foods.
The discovery of a 'nourishing gene' that controls how nutrients are distributed in plants and crops could offer hope for improved crop yield and increased food production, say researchers.
Degussa Texturant Systems, a unit of German speciality chemicals
company, Degussa announced this week that its plant in Decatur,
USA, has been awarded Cert-ID non-GMO system certification for its
lecithin production system.
