Wyeth Nutrition, the infant formula company bought by Nestle last year, is cutting prices in China, the first such move since it was one of five foreign infant milk formula companies put under investigation for possible price-fixing. ...
Tags: infant formula, milk powder
The first thing customers see as they enter the basement of the Wal-Mart Qinghe store in Beijing is a mountain of imported milk cartons. Half a large stack of Euro-fit whole milk from Germany, selling at 9.9 yuan ($1.61) per box, is ...
Tags: Imported Milk, Dairy Products
Belgian chemical company Solvay has announced plans to construct a new facility to manufacture vanillin in Zhenjiang City, China, as part of its efforts to better serve the fast-growing Asian market. The new facility, which will be ...
Tags: Vanillin Production, Solvay
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in Hong Kong has issued a health alert over the consumption of chocolate raisins manufactured by See's Candies, as they may contain tree nuts and eggs that ...
Birmingham-based Central Food Services sources and packs frozen meat and has successfully grown in a short space of time operating out of an A-grade BRC accredited site which houses, what it describes as, a state of the art food processing ...
Tags: X-ray Machine, Packaging, Printing
ECRS, an establishment based in Hollywood, Florida, is recalling 12,560 pounds of chicken dip products as they contain anchovies which is not mentioned on the label, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and ...
Tags: Chicken Dip, Undeclared Allergen
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agriculture are often on opposite sides of the fence. It’s a love-hate relationship of sorts. The federal agency in part works to protect the U.S. food supply. Yet the FDA has a mixed ...
Tags: Food-Safety, FDA, Agriculture&Food
About a third of the country's baby formula businesses will be axed, in what experts are calling a major consolidation of the industry. The government has been trying to revive the industry since the 2008 melamine scandal, but consumer ...
Tags: Baby Formula, milk powder
Demand for disinfectant and antimicrobial chemicals in the U.S. is forecast to rise 6.1 percent annually to $1.6 billion in 2017. A rebound in building construction activity, in conjunction with an improving U.S. economy, will drive strong ...
Tags: Disinfectant, Antimicrobial, 2017
Global manufacturer and distributor of adhesive materials Avery Dennison has unveiled its new Select Solutions portfolio of specialized pressure-sensitive materials for packaging converters. Featuring low minimum order quantities, ...
Tags: Avery Dennison, Pressure-Sensitive Materials Portfolio
PMMI: The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the owner and organizer of Pack Expo, is making substantial changes to the education program at Pack Expo Las Vegas 2013 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 23–25). ...
National Beef Packing of Kansascapproximately 22,737 pounds of raw ground beef products as they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The ...
When the metal crown lid is popped open by the opener, beer foam spews out and the bottle lid goes to life's end. In most of the time throughout its life, the metal crown lid fights with gas pressure in the bottle and tries its best to fit ...
New trade talks between the EU and US will create growth opportunities for Europe's food and drink industry, claim manufacturers, who together exported £11.67bn of food and drink to the country last year. Trading places: New US/EU ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
US-based 3M Food Safety has unveiled a new pathogen detection technology - 3M Petrifilm Salmonella Express System, which provides detection and biochemical confirmation of Salmonella in enriched food and food process environmental samples. ...