Nestle has won an appeal to protect the unique shape of its KitKat chocolate bar in the European Union, overturning a previous ruling in favour of Kraft Foods-owned Cadbury. just-food articles are only available to registered users and ...
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Hillshire Brands has announced that Brian Davison has joined the company from Kraft Foods as VP of corporate strategy and development. Hillshire, formerly the North American meat business of Sara Lee, said Davison began his role on 2 ...
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Germany-based Beck's has introduced Beck's Sapphire, a golden pilsner brewed with German Saphir aroma hops in the US. The 6% ABV comes in sleek black glass bottle, according to the company. Anheuser-Busch US marketing vice president ...
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US-based hamburger chain Burger King has introduced new Chicken Nuggets and six additional limited-time menu items. The Chicken Nuggets are made with white meat and tender, juicy chicken on the inside and a crispy tempura-style batter on ...
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Cal-Maine Foods, a US-based egg producer, has reported that its net sales increased by 13.26% to $328.8m for the second quarter of 2013, compared to $290.3m for the same period in the previous year. For the period ended 1 December 2012, ...
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US-based Bel-Ray has received NSF-H1 approval for No-Tox Food Grade Dry PTFE Spray used in 'clean industry' applications. The new multi-purpose, dry-film lubricant meets FDA requirements for incidental food contact and has been seen as ...
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The Indian Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has issued a Gazette Notification that mandates producers of packaged food to reveal the genetically-modified (GM) ingredients, in their product if used any. The new ...
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Alberta has given exemption from foreign land ownership rules to JBS, which makes it one step closer to buying XL Foods meat plant in Brooks, Alberta. The XL Foods plant in Brooks Alberta was earlier closed due to the recall of its ...
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Desmet Ballestra has signed an agreement with a refinery in Ecuador to install oil refining and processing equipment developed by Cavitation Technologies (CTI). The NanoNeutralization equipment is expected to process 350 tons of soybean ...
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Since 1990, Steritech have been the sole agents for Fedegari and Stilmas in the GMP pharmaceutical sector in the UK and Ireland. Recently, the Company have also started to represent Fedegari Autoklaven’s range of laboratory autoclaves ...
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UK-based Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has said that it expects manufacturers and compliance schemes to meet their glass packaging recycling obligations for 2012 and has warned of enforcement action on those who ...
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Infoworld - Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same. Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, ...
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US-based food company General Mills and consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) have settled a lawsuit over the company's Fruit Roll-Ups product label. According to the settlement, the company will have to ...
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Soup market in Australia is poised to continue its growing momentum in the next five years, finds a new survey by UK-based research firm Canadean - Food. According to the report 'The Soups Market in Australia, to 2016', the country's ...
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National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), a state-run dairy research organisation in Bangalore, India, is using advanced technologies to develop traditional milk products (TDPs). NDRI senior scientist K Jayaraj Rao, principal scientist C ...
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