Eurofins Scientific has agreed to acquire Covance Food Solutions, the food testing and consulting business of global life sciences company LabCorp, for $670m. The global bioanalytical testing firm said that the acquisition will expand its ...
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Food testing services provider Eurofins Scientific has acquired Institut Nehring, a food testing laboratory in the German market. Institut Nehring was established in 1905; today the company is well-known in the German market thanks to its ...
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Silicon Valley based Peco InspX has unveiled an advanced product inspection line using a combination of x-ray technology and cloud-based computing for quality assurance in the food industry. Named as ‘SHIELD’, the new food ...
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Private equity investment firm Paine & Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire food safety and food quality solutions platform Global ID Group. However, financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in ...
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Food processing equipment supplier GEA has integrated Italian business COMAS, a move that strengthens its diversification into the bakery sector. Since the acquisition of COMAS, which took place in June this year, GEA has been ...
Global nutraceuticals market is expected to cross $262.9 billion by 2020 from the current level of $182.6 billion growing at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 8 per cent according to the joint study brought out by The Associated ...
Food testing services provider Eurofins Scientific has agreed to acquire 65% majority stake in Vietnamese food testing company Sac Ky Hai Ang (EDC-HD) for an undisclosed amount. EDC-HD, a merger between the Ho Chi Minh City Center of ...
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Colborne based food processing facility Ontario Agri-Food Venture Centre has received $225,000 to support the advancement of small batch food products grown in eastern Ontario, Canada. This funding will enable the firm to accommodate ...
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Hong Kong based startup Vitargent has developed a food testing technology with fish embryos to detect toxic substances in food. Though the technology has been developed for food and beverages, it also has applications in areas such as ...
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America's PerkinElmer is set to acquire Perten Instruments Group, supplier of advanced analytical instruments for quality control of food, grain, flour and feed. The net purchase price of the deal is around $266m and the transaction is ...
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ABC Research Laboratories, a US-based food testing and consulting laboratory, has secured approval as a General Mills Approved Laboratory. The laboratory will now test ingredients that are supplied for General Mills' 89 individual ...
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Food microbiology laboratories can now confidently test to a recognized standard for Salmonella species with the Thermo Scientific SureTect Salmonella Species Assay, which has been granted an NF validation certificate by AFNOR Certification ...
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A considerable paradox exists in U.S. food policy. Although the federal government has named food safety as a top priority, an entire pocket of the food industry remains largely unregulated by, or at least largely under the radar of, most ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an "adequate" rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards, according to documents ...
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For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a ...