The A2 Corporation has changed its name to The A2 Milk Company The Board of dairy manufacturer A2 Corporation has resolved to change the name of the company to The A2 Milk Company Limited, effective from 8 April 2014. The Company will ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Milk, dairy
Debate about infant formula marketing monitoring continues Paediatricians from Australasia’s largest specialist college, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) have urged the Federal Parliament to legislate to ...
Tags: Infant Formula, Government Moves
February 24, 2014 Sophie Langley Australian-based dairy businesses have coped differently with 'difficult' market conditions Food and beverage company Lion has announced its Dairy and Drinks business experienced “significant ...
Tags: Bega, Lion Dairy, WCB, RTD
Anytime a product recall is quickly associated with illnesses it's never good. But for Fonterra, the world's largest dairy processor, the need in the last week to recall 8,700 bottles of cream for E. coli contamination could not have come ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Milk, Milk Powder
Beginning March 15, Chinese consumers will have support from the courts in their efforts to sue manufacturers and retailers of unsafe food and pharmaceuticals, according to the South China Morning Post. The ruling, announced last week, ...
Tags: unsafe food, unsafe pharmaceuticals, sue, Chinese consumers
Almarai, a Saudi Arabian food company, has completed the acquisition of stake held by Mead Johnson in International Pediatric Nutrition Company (IPNC), a joint venture between the parties. The company stated that it received all necessary ...
Tags: infant formula products, Almarai
French dairy major Danone has commenced legal proceedings against New Zealand-based dairy co-operative Fonterra over losses from the recent whey protein concentrate (WPC80) contamination scare. The company has initiated proceedings in the ...
Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to harden plastics, has been used since the 1960s to make a number of consumer goods such as bottles and cans. In the past several years, potential health risks associated with the chemical have come to ...
With a population base of 222 million 0-15-year-old children and 16 million newborns each year, as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China ranks second as the world’s largest consumer market for babies’ and ...
Tags: Baby Products, Children's Goods
SPX Corporation announced that it has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $50M from Synutra France International, a subsidiary of Synutra International Inc., one of the leading infant nutrition companies producing and supplying in ...
SPX, a US-based multi-industry manufacturing firm, has received a contract worth over $50m from Synutra France International, a subsidiary of Synutra International, to build a new powdered infant formula processing plant in Brittany, ...
Tetra Pak, a Switzerland-based provider of food processing and packaging solutions, has introduced three new products required for the processing of prepared foods such as fruit preparations, soups and sauces, baby food, tomato products and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Starting Jan 1,2014, China will apply provisional annual tax rates lower than the most fvored nation tariff rates for 767 imported goods, according to the Tariff Implementation Plan for 2014 issued by the Tariff Policy Committee of the Stae ...
The New Zealand Government has released a report on the first stage of the Government inquiry into the Fonterra Whey Protein Concentrate (WPC) incident and has said the Government accepts in principle all 29 recommendations. Background to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Chinese consumers can expect higher dairy prices in December because of a shrinking supply of raw milk from the country's fragmented milk farms. Most domestic dairy companies put up prices last week, ranging from five to 20 percent. This ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Dairy Products