A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
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Z Trim Holdings, Inc., a biotechnology company providing value-added ingredients to companies in the food and industrial markets, announced that it has entered into an agreement with a leading multi-national specialty food products company. ...
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China-based GreenStar Agricultural is set to complete the acquisition of Beichen Tomato Products in Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia, on 1 January 2014. The company has agreed to pay around C$4.2m ($4m) for Beichen Tomato's assets. The ...
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Food processor Michael Foods has commenced work on a $33m expansion at its Wakefield, Nebraska, farm and processing plant. The two-phase project includes expansion of the facilities and installation of new equipment. In the first phase, ...
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Tetra Pak, a Sweden-based food packaging and processing solutions provider, has developed Tetra Vertico, a new generation of heat exchanger unit for prepared food products. With a coiled mono-tube design, the equipment is claimed to offer ...
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Specialty food products distributor Chefs' Warehouse has acquired Allen Brothers, a US-based meat processor and distributor, in a $29.9m deal. Allen Brothers caters to about 400 of restaurants, hotels, casinos and country clubs as well as ...
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Sysco Corporation and US Foods today announced an agreement to merge, creating a world-class foodservice company. The total enterprise value of the transaction is approximately $8.2 billion and the combination has been approved by the Board ...
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Saudi Arabia-based Alkhabeer Capital has acquired majority stake in UAE-based corrugated and flexible packaging products provider Express Publishing and Investment (EPIL). With the transaction, the Saudi firm expects to expand value of ...
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UK-based packaging firm Sirane has introduced a new food packaging solution, the Si-bag, which can be used for steam-cooking in oven or microwave. The new Si-bag can be used to cook the packed products in a conventional oven at about 200 ...
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China's consumer price index grew 3% Y-O-Y in NOV., down from 3.2% in Oct., the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday. Food prices rose 5.9% from a year ago, while prices of non-food products edged up 1.6%, acording to NBS. CPI rose ...
Canadian carriers are getting different requirements from one shipper to another for exactly the same food products because there’s no uniformity in preventive control plans (PCPs) for transportation. Food safety and transportation ...
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According to a release Wednesday by Statistics Canada, the country's merchandise imports declined 1.2 percent and exports decreased 0.3 percent in October. As a result, Canada's trade balance with the world went from a deficit of $303 ...
SnackHealthy, Inc. today announced the Company has partnered with Hong Kong based Sterling Food Solutions, Ltd. for the distribution of its organic food products to Asia. SnackHealthy will begin shipping its organic milk, baby formula and ...
Natural Blend Vegetable Dehydration is set to open a manufacturing facility in Pitt County, North Carolina, US with an investment of more than $12m over the next three years. The move is expected to create up to 57 jobs. Being ...
The difference between the healthiest diets and the least healthy diets is $1.50 a day, U.S. researchers found. Lead author Mayuree Rao, a junior research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, ...
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