A new set of rules for organic farming has been endorsed by the European Council (EC) with an aim to provide uniform quality organic food items to consumers across the continent. The EC says that the new rules will simplify and harmonise ...
Tags: organic food, Organic Farming
Ornua has announced expansion into the South Korean market by launching Kerrygold butter. The new product was unveiled by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD at a launch in the Hyundai Department Store ...
The Ireland Government said it will spend €8.8m to establish a new food innovation hub, aimed to help the country’s food industry deal as it prepares for Brexit. Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine ...
Chocolate and confectionery giant Ferrero’s Canada unit will be financially supported by the Ontario government in its C$90m ($72.31m) expansion project that is aimed at boosting productivity of an existing plant. The provincial ...
US-based Ben & Jerry's said it will roll out glyphosate-free ice cream products following recent tests that revealed traces of a herbicide called glyphosate in several of its flavors. The ice cream manufacturer said that it will no longer ...
Tags: ice cream, organic food
US-based Sandridge RMH Acquisition has issued a recall of nearly 1,222 pounds of ready-to-eat beef products owing to misbranding and undeclared allergens. According to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection ...
Tags: Beef Products, Recalls
Automated Packaging Systems (APS) has launched a new fully-integrated counter and bag packaging system for high speed counting and packaging of small products. The Data Count U 162 Counter from DATA Detection Technologies has been ...
Agribusiness giant Cargill has agreed to merge its fresh chicken business in the UK with Faccenda Foods’ fresh chicken, turkey and duck operations to create a new food firm. The parties will establish a fresh poultry joint venture ...
Tags: Cargill, Faccenda Foods
The Ontario Government is helping pork processor Conestoga Meat Packers to expand local production and bring 170 new jobs to Waterloo Region. The government is investing up to C$5.3m ($4.35m) as part of its C$2.7bn ($2.2bn) Jobs and ...
Tags: pork processor, Meat
Food firm Tulip, part of the Danish Crown group, has acquired UK pig producer Easey. Easey Holdings Ltd is a family-owned pig farming operation consisting of four key divisions – breeding herds(sows), growing herds, a veterinary ...
Tags: Food firm Tulip, Tulip Agriculture
Ardo has acquired a majority stake in VLM Foods, a supplier of processed food in North America. Besides VLM Foods, the deal includes a controlling stake in Compañia Frutera La Paz S.A., Costa Rica’s largest frozen pineapple ...
Russian food firm Cherkizovo Group said that its Vasilyevskaya poultry production facility has received permission to export poultry products to Iraq. The Vasilyevskaya poultry farm, which is Cherkizovo Group’s largest poultry ...
Tags: poultry products, Poultry
Arla is launching a line of co-branded milk bottles together with fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s. The new product will have a maximum capacity of 250ml and will be available across 1,270 UK McDonald’s restaurants. ...
Tags: Meal Milk Bottles, milk bottles
Ampacet, a manufacturer of additive masterbatches for flexible packaging and rigid packaging, has opened a new masterbatch production facility in Dandenong, Australia, to extend its footprint in the region. The new facility manufactures ...
Tags: Ampacet, flexible packaging
Scientist at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricity and carbon dioxide. Protein produced in this way can be further ...
Tags: electricity, carbon dioxide