A "strong" performance from Glanbia's nutrition ingredients business has led the Irish food group to lift its forecast for full-year earnings. Glanbia said it expects its adjusted earnings per share to increase 8-10% on a ...
Tags: Glanbia, nutrition ingredients, earnings, food industry
Irish food group Glanbia has moved a step closer in its bid to sell a stake in its domestic ingredients business. Glanbia said it has signed contracts with its majority shareholder, the Glanbia Co-operative Society, to run what it said is ...
Tags: food group, food, dairy ingredients, cheese
Arla Foods and Fonterra have teamed up with Danish analytical solutions provider Foss to develop a screening method to determine whether milk has been tampered with for financial gain. The'fingerprint'-based screening technique will ...
Tags: Arla, Fonterra, Foss, China, Denmark, milk, dairy, safety, melamine
This week's research round-up includes a clutch of reports looking at consumer trends in the French dairy market and baby food in China. BABY FOOD China Infant Formula and Care Product Industry Report, 2011-2012 The report analyses ...
Tags: Consumer Trends, Dairy, Baby Food
US infant formula group Mead Johnson has booked an drop in third-quarter earnings, hurt by a slowdown in China. In the three months to the end of September, the company earned US$140.4m, down 3% on the prior year period. EBIT fell 11.8% ...
Arla Foods has announced a deal to supply Chinese infant formula company Biosteme. The Nordic dairy giant will supply powder to Biosteme from a facility in Denmark for ten years. The deal could also see both companies finance upgrade work ...
Tags: baby milk, dairy giant, premium infant nutrition market
Gerber Products, a part of Nestle, has introduced Gerber Good Start Soothe formula, which has been designed to reduce excessive crying and colic in healthy infants. The product, which contains with the probiotic L. reuteri, has been ...
Tags: excessive crying, colic in healthy infants, lactose intolerance
Researchers at the University of Illinois, US, has a developed new method that uses bacteria to produce 2-fucosyllactose (2FL), a sugar found abundantly in human milk. This development could lead future research on the possibility of its ...
Tags: bacteria, human milk, future research, infant formula
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking submissions on a proposed change to infant formula requirements in the Food Standards Code. FSANZ is evaluating an application to reduce the minimum required level of L-histidine in ...
Tags: infant formula requirements, submissions on a proposed change
Swiss food company Nestlé is set to extend its Product Technology Centre (PTC) in Konolfingen, Switzerland, as a part of a plan to strengthen its R&D capabilities. The extension of PTC Konolfingen, which is involved in the ...
Tags: new product development, global operations, further extension
Hong Kong plans to soon introduce laws on nutritional labeling of baby food, in response to the recent report that imported infant formula from Japan contained less iodine than recommended. Last week, Centre for Food Safety (CFS) Hong ...
The Infant Formula Exporters Association announced that Chinese authorities have rejected 270 tons of baby formula,of which 135 tons was from Australia and New Zealand. About three-quarters of the substandard imports were baby formula,of ...
Tags: baby formula, substandard, iodine content, iodine deficiency
China has returned more than 70kg of imported Heinz infant formula products to Australia as they contained high levels of vitamin B2,which could result in adverse health consequences,according to China's top quality watchdog. The product ...
Tags: infant formula, vitamin B2, vitamin B5
Israel-based nutraceutical ingredients company LycoRed has announced that its new premix plant in Changzhou,China,is fully approved. The new plant,which is fully operational,will cater to processors of infant formula,beverage,baby food ...
Tags: premix, baby food, infant formula
Enzymotec has announced that clinical trials for its lipid-based ingredient line for infant nutrition yielded positive results.These large-scale clinical research trials were conducted on newborn term infants in several institutes globally. ...