There is neither doubt nor dispute that the last financial year tested the grit and resourcefulness of the packaging industry. Tetra Pak achieved a 1.7% in sales nonetheless. Tetra Pak’s ‘challenging year’, the ...
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UK-based Dairy Crest has agreed to divest its Dairies operations to Müller UK & Ireland for £80m, citing slump in profits during the six months ended September. The transaction includes production plants at Foston, Chadwell ...
Tags: fresh liquid milk, Dairy Crest, Agriculture
China has eased the ban on New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra’s whey powder and dairy base powder imports which are used as ingredients in infant formula production. Fonterra will now be able to sell the ingredients to infant ...
Tags: infant milk, Agriculture
China has lifted the import ban on New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra’s whey powder and dairy base powder, which are used as ingredients in the manufacture of infant formula. The ban was imposed in August last year on the two ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Milk Powder
UK-based Dairy Crest has agreed to divest its Dairies operations to Müller UK & Ireland for £80m, citing slump in profits during the six months ended September. The transaction includes production plants at Foston, Chadwell ...
UK-based dairy foods company Dairy Crest has entered into a strategic agreement with New Zealand-based dairy co-operative Fonterra to sell demineralised whey powder. Under the agreement, Fonterra will market and sell two Dairy Crest ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy foods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published eight warning letters last week that were issued to food manufacturers and processors mainly in February. Reyskens Dairy in Custer, OH, and Ed Vander Woude Dairy in San Jacinto, CA, received ...
Another major Australian milk supplier gets snapped up The sale of privately-owned dairy giant United Dairy Power to Hong Kong businessman William Hui is locked in, according to Stock & Land. It was reportedly sold for around $70 ...
Tags: Australian milk, Caboolture Cheese, shredded Mozzarella
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $15 million loan to dairy company Parag Milk Foods for expanding its milk processing facilities, to enhance dairy farm productivity and boost incomes in rural India. With IFC's ...
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Valio, a Finnish dairy firm, has selected Neste Jacobs to provide production optimization at its whey powder facility with the latter's advanced process control (APC) technology. As per the deal, Neste Jacobs will implement the ...
UK-based Dairy Crest has confirmed plans to expand its milk processing plant at Davidstow, Cornwall, with an investment of £45m. The company plans to use the whey generated during the production of cheese at the Davidstow creamery ...
Tags: Dairy Crest, Food
Xanthan Gum Xanthan gum is a polysaccharide that bacterium known as Xanthomonas campestris secrets. This gum is a good food additive as well as a modifier of rheology. It gum is also useful as thickening agent of food items such as salad ...
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The National Dairy Authority (NDA) of Philippines has reported that the imports of milk and cream from abroad decreased 5.4% to 405,930 tons for the first quarter of 2013. The decline in imports was primarily due to increase in domestic ...
Tags: Dairy Imports, Agriculture
The New Zealand government will conduct a top level inquiry into how Fonterra’s whey product, which was potentially contaminated with botulism causing bacteria, was distributed globally. Prime Minister John Key said that Fonterra's ...
Tags: Whey Product
China, Vietnam and Russia have imposed an import ban on milk powder and whey protein from the New Zealand-based Fonterra after the dairy co-operative warned that a batch of whey powder produced in 2012 may be contaminated with bacteria that ...