Bulgaria's Food Safety Agency is set to initiate mass checks on the cooking oils used at catering establishments,according to Agriculture and Food Minister Miroslav Naidenov. Over the years,the agency has focused hygiene,food origin ...
Tags: cooking oils, hygiene, health
Posted by Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/30/2012 7:10:00 AM Bob Evans Food Products introduces Breakfast Bakes, the simple goodness of breakfast in a hand-held hash brown, now available in the freezer section of ...
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UK-based multi-material packaging manufacturer Linpac Packaging has partnered with Addmaster to develop a range of trays and films with built-in antimicrobial technology to lessen bacterial growth on the outer packaging of fresh meat. ...
Tags: Packaging Germs, multi-material packaging, antimicrobial technology
Aku.automation has installed a machine vision system from Cognex in the Knorr packaging plant Heilbronn, Germany, which will check the seals on food products sachets such as Fix spaghetti bolognese, Fix goulash and Fix pot roast. The ...
Tags: Cognex System Ascertains, machine vision system, visualization panel
Sri Lanka's Keells Food Products is planning to buy meat processing firm D&W Foods for LKR700m ($5.24m) and upgrade manufacturing facilities. The acquisition includes D&W Foods' production facility at Makundara Industrial Estate West, ...
A new research that analysed 235 types of rice from around the world has found that most varieties had low to medium Glycemic Index(GI),a finding which shows that rice can be part of a healthy diet for the average consumer as well those ...
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Nevella To Go, the brand owned by US-based Heartland Food Products, has launched portable liquid sweetener with zero calories. New Nevella To Go liquid sweeteners are available in easy squirt bottles that are small enough to fit in the ...
Tags: portable liquid sweetener, zero calories, liquid sweeteners, Stevia
US food company General Mills has announced that it has improved the nutritional profile of 68% of its US retail sales volume since 2005. The company noted that in 2012, it has improved nearly 16% of its US retail sales volume. ...
The EU-funded team of researchers, a consortium consisting of experts from Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Hungary and Slovenia and led by the Spain-based Patronal de la Petita i Mitjana Empresa de Catalunya (PIMEC) has developed a new ...
House Foods America has completed the acquisition of El Burrito Mexican Food Products, a Mexican food brand based in City of Industry, California, US, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition includes all the assets of the company. El ...
Tags: healthy Mexican food products, leading soy meat analogue brand
Gyrotron Technology, a Pennsylvania-based industrial technologies developer, has filed a provisional patent application for its technology for the decontamination of beef carcasses and other food products. The company claimed that the new ...
Hain Celestial,a US-based natural and organic food products company,has reported that its net income from continuing operations increased by 56.6%to$19.8m for the first quarter of 2013,compared to$12.6m for the same period of fiscal 2012. ...
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The market for primary packaging materials for microwavable products, valued at $1.2bn, is estimated to grow at 9.4% a year till 2016. This was revealed in according to a newly released market research and intelligence report from Allied ...
Tags: Microwavable Packaging, primary packaging, microwavable products
Specialty food firm The Chefs'Warehouse has acquired Michael's Finer Meats,a supplier of meat and seafood for$54.3m,as a part of its strategy to expand into Midwestern US. Michael's Finer Meats,based in Ohio,US,supplies a range of custom ...
Tags: Finer Meats, seafood, beef
Valensa International has announced that it has received US Food&Drug Administration(FDA)Generally Recognized as Safe(GRAS)status for its Parry Organic Spirulina ingredient. Valensa International claimed that Parry Organic Spirulina is ...
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