Almarai Company has evinced interest in acquiring a controlling stake in UAE-based National Food Products Company (NFPC). NFPC has initiated the competitive sale process for part of its share capital and has informed Almarai to progress ...
Tags: NFPC, National Food Products Company, Almarai, Acqusition
The US Food and Drug Administration has given green signal for folic acid fortification of corn masa flour. The approval will allow manufacturers to voluntarily add up to 0.7 milligrams of folic acid per pound of corn masa flour, making ...
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Supermarkets and corner stores around Britain can now offer customers a new brand called Kendamil, which is not only the sole infant formula to be manufactured to a whole milk recipe, rather than skimmed, but also the only infant formula in ...
Tags: Infant Formulas, Kendamil products
China is introducing a new tax which will impact Australian food companies that rely on selling their products online. Details of the tax are not yet clear however it is expected that online purchases from outside of China will be ...
Tags: Tax, Australian Products, Online Sales, Online Sales Tax
A New Zealand man will serve eight and a half years in prison for sending letters saying he would poison Fonterra and Federated Farmers infant formula unless they complied with his demands. The man, Jeremy Kerr, had business interests ...
Tags: Poisoning Threats, Jeremy Kerr
Cronobacter, also known as Enterobacter, is an opportunistic pathogenic bacteria responsible for food borne illness. Cronobacter is able to survive in desiccated states for extended periods of time, which means that it can be a problem in ...
Tags: Cronobacter, Food born illness, Infant
Australia-based dairy company Murray Goulburn (MG) is partnering with Indonesian health and infant nutrition company Kalbe Nutritionals and US-based Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN), to set up $300m infant formula processing facility at Koroit ...
Tags: MG, Kalbe Nutritionals, MJN, Nutrion infant powders
Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) will co-locate a packaging plant with the nutritional powders plant dairy company Murray Goulburn (MG) plans to build in Victoria. MG has forged long-term supply agreements with global paediatric nutrition ...
Tags: MJN, MG, Nutrition Packaging
New Zealand-based dairy company Fonterra has launched infant nutrition brand Anmun, in the home country. The brand is currently available in Asia. The company's pediatric nutrition experts have developed the Anmun formula range at ...
Murray Goulburn says it is feeling the impact of a troubled dairy industry, revealing a slump in net profit to shareholders. The dairy company, which owns the Devondale brand, announced a net profit of only AUD$10 million for the six ...
Tags: low milk prices, Murray Goulburn
A higher proportion of Australians living in rural and regional parts of the country are more likely to purchase cheese than consumers living in the bigger Australian cities says a new report from Roy Morgan Research. In the 12 months to ...
Tags: Cheese, Cheese-buying habits
The Australian Federal Government's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) is allowing China's Moon Lake Investments to acquire Australia's largest dairy producer, Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL). The purchase price is AUD$280 million for ...
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking comments on its proposed approach to revising infant formula requirements in the Food Standards Code. FSANZ Chief Executive Officer Mr Steve McCutcheon said although breastfeeding is ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Food Standards
Jamestrong has started installing a new infant formula can line to meet consumer demand. The $8 million investment follows the company’s recent $13 million investment in a KBA Metal Star 3 metal printer to boost its nutrition and ...
The A2 Milk Company today posted a record net profit of NZ$10.1 million (AUD$9.34 million) for the six months ended the 31 December 2015. The dairy producer which specialises in products made from milk that contains the A2 protein only ...
Tags: Infant Formula, A2 Milk