News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Europe and the US will hammer out the contentious issue of obesity and the role food policy can play in getting to grips with this major health problem at a Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) meeting in Brussels today.
A brewer in Sweden is facing the GM debate head on. The company claims to have launched the first food product to use genetic modification as a marketing tool.
Continued growth has meant the redevelopment of Guinness' Waterford site in Ireland. Amongst the renovations has been a change to a single tank yeast system to optimise quality.
Although hit by the uncertainty of big contract renewal, the UK-based Tate & Lyle Group has said that it expects profit before tax in the third quarter of the year to 31 March 2004 to be in line with expectations.
Probiotics, the bacteria thought to help gut health disorders, allergies and even some forms of cancer, contain immune system-stimulating DNA, which makes them just as effective when inactivated as when consumed as live microorganisms in dairy...