The New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that several Chinese-made baby food firms are falsely claiming that their product is produced in New Zealand. This problem was identified after nearly 20 Chinese baby ...
Tags: baby food firms, media reports
Ritualized gift exchanges have been a part of Chinese culture for centuries. When visiting someone's home, you traditionally take a gift. Many of those same gifts may work well during a western-style gift exchange. In other cases, Chinese ...
Tags: chinese gift, fine fruit, boxed drinks, seasonal foods, jades
Branded food manufacturers are set to suffer further losses in market share as own-label products continue to grow in popularity,according to consumer market researcher,Kantar Worldpanel. In the soup:Tesco's decision to stock its ...
Tags: Branded food, own label products, market share, retailer
Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray, the Product Inspection division of Mettler-Toledo has developed a new X-ray system for pharmaceutical and food manufacturers, which gives the same level of foreign body detection sensitivity as a traditional ...
Tags: X-ray system, Inspection division, packaged products inspection
China is set to enforce new food packaging regulations from 1 January 2013. The regulations will help consumers to identify a product's nutritional structure and ingredients straight away and con food packaging labels. As part of the ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Regulations, food packaging regulations
McCormick has identified top seven flavors that it says are essential for popular recipes this holiday season.The flavors,termed Seasonal Seven,include cinnamon,nutmeg,poultry seasoning,ginger,sage,vanilla and peppermint. The Seasonal ...
Tags: popular recipes, Seasonal Seven, spices
US-based Rehrig Pacific, a manufacturer of reusable transport packaging systems, and Intelleflex, a provider of on-demand data visibility for cold chain asset management, have announced a strategic solution partnership, in a bid to improve ...
Pro2Pac 2013 is ready to provide food processing and packaging companies with the latest information on novel sustainability practices, as part of an addition to its show in 2013. The Sustainable Solutions Zone is being positioned as a ...
Tags: Sustainable Processing, Packaging Solutions, sustainable technologies
Mettler-Toledo has introduced XE 100 CC Compact,a product inspection machine integrating checkweighing and metal detection capability,for bulk food producersat the FachPack 2012 trade show in Nuremberg,Germany. XE 100 CC Compact model is ...
Tags: metal detection capability, equipment, product inspection machine
UK-based food ingredients firm Tate&Lyle has announced the global launch of SODA-LO Salt Microspheres,a new salt reduction ingredient that is said to taste,label and function like salt. The company noted that by using SODA-LO,which has ...
Piab, a Sweden-based manufacturer of vacuum line accessories, has developed piFLOWf for food manufacturers. The company claimed that all parts that are in contact with the conveyed material are FDA compliant and it is a cost efficient ...
Tags: vacuum line accessories, conveyed material, the vacuum system
The UK government and key stakeholders are planning to invest £12m in a new center aimed at supporting energy efficiency in food sector. The Centre for Sustainable Energy use in Food Chains will be LED by Brunel University, London, ...
Tags: energy efficiency, food sector, EPSRC
SYSPRO, which offers enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for on-premise and cloud-based utilization, has developed SYSPRO ERP, which enables food manufacturers and distributors to fully comply with the newest rules recently issued ...
Tags: SYSPRO, ERP Software, Food Manufacturers
UK-based Edale has announced the sale of a four color 510mm fully servo driven Gamma flexo printing press to its customer, Halwani Brothers, based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Gamma, which is Edale's servo-driven printing and converting ...
Tags: Edale, flexo printing press, Halwani Brothers, system
The minister for employment,Mark Hoban,is meeting the food manufacturing industry's top players today(November 12)–including Mars,Cranswick and Associated British Foods(ABF)–to offer them cash incentives for employing young ...
Tags: ABF, cash incentive, youth unemployment, Mars