By Jessica Burke on  8 December 2011 0 comments All this discussion about food labelling, obesity, additives, good fats versus bad fats, good carbs versus bad carbs is enough to make anyone’s head spin. We’re getting cancer from eating certain foods. We’re avoiding cancer by eating others. You need superfoods! There’s no such thing as [...]

2012 Trends December 7, 2011 By Rieva Lesonsky Are you in the restaurant, foodservice or food manufacturing business? No matter how tough the economy is, people still need to eat. And foodservice entrepreneurs have shown a lot of creativity in the past few years—in fact, you could almost say the recession has sparked a renaissance [...]

By George Dapont, Edmonton Journal December 8, 2011     Re: “Ottawa halts health product label testing; Budget constraints put program on hold,” The Journal, Dec. 2. First, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) did not cancel or postpone its retail survey activities. The CFIA has sampled many food products at retail this past year [...]

BY JEFFREY HOFFELT, LIVESTOCK EDITOR | 0 comments The world is now home to seven billion residents. The United Nation’s population milestone was met Oct. 30 when Danica May Camacho took her first breath in Manila’s Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines. Adorned with a red knitted hat and wrapped in the arms of her [...]

Consumer demand for healthy, cost effective products is the driving force behind innovation in the food and beverage industry. One of the big ideas to come out of the food-manufacturing sector of late is that the key to great innovation lies in rapid prototyping and formula optimisation. If you are looking to achieving a faster [...]

Suppliers of end-of-line automation and material handling in the food sector have a distinct scope of technology to consider, including various types of palletizing robots, stretch wrapping equipment, labeling systems, pallet control systems, and laser-guided automatic vehicles.

The U.S. Food and Drug administration plans to spend millions of dollars to update its tools for reviewing prescription drugs, medical devices and tracking food safety, according to a proposal released Wednesday by the agency’s leadership. The plan calls for investment in a variety of efforts, from developing ways to assess new products to establishing [...]

Jim Moseley, managing director of General Mills UK, Ireland and the Nordic markets, has been elected president of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).

Stephen Osuw is one of the luckier cocoa farmers in Ghana. He is one of 200 who live in Adjeikrom, a village about two hours drive from the capital Accra

Dr. Hagen is a highly recognized food safety expert. The USDA have spoken and been represented at several WTG Food & Beverage events in the United States and we hope to continue that relationship for the Food Manufacturing and Safety Forum, San Diego in January 2011:     WASHINGTON, August 19, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary [...]