Arla Foods Ingredients is investing 102M in a new lactose manufacturing facility in Denmark that will have "a major impact on the supply of lactose to the UK food industry". Arla's new lactose plant in Denmark will have a major impact on ...
Tags: lactose supply, food industry, lactose
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has settled a class action lawsuit accusing the cooperative of conspiring to control the raw milk market in the southeastern US. DFA will pay US$140m to the plaintiffs. An additional, refundable $9.3m per ...
Tags: DFA, raw milk market, class action lawsuit
Earlier this month, local media reported that the demand of raw milk and dairy products would increase in 2013. Raw milk supply gap is expected to be 3-4 million tons. The output of raw milk in China was 38.5 million tons last year and ...
Tags: Raw Milk, Food, Supply Gap, dairy products
Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, a China-based dairy company, plans to invest $214m to set up an infant formula facility in South Canterbury and as part of this strategy, it is set to buy New Zealand-based Oceania Dairy Group. ...
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Morrisons is to increase what it pays to milk farmers, becoming the latest UK retailer to up its payment amid anger from suppliers. The UK's fourth-largest retailer said it would increase the premium it pays for milk and make an extra ...
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London-listed Ukrainian dairy firm Ukrproduct has forecast "improved" half-year profits. Ukrproduct said lower prices for raw milk, higher sales of cheese and the decision to start selling traditional fermented beverage kvass helped the ...
Tags: Profit Improvement, raw milk, cheese revenues, margin outlook
Arla Foods and Fonterra have teamed up with Danish analytical solutions provider Foss to develop a screening method to determine whether milk has been tampered with for financial gain. The'fingerprint'-based screening technique will ...
Tags: Arla, Fonterra, Foss, China, Denmark, milk, dairy, safety, melamine
Food scientists at Cornell University, US, have identified predominant spore-forming bacteria in milk and their unique enzyme activity, a finding that could help to extend the shelf-life of dairy products and improve their quality. The ...
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US-based Guernsey Dairy has halted the production of organic milk, due to due to decline in milk yields as a result of sustained wind and rain and poor crop harvests. The company will import Jersey milk to make up for the shortage, ...
Tags: production of organic milk, sustained wind and rain, poor crop harvests
China Mengniu Dairy is in talks to acquire China Modern Dairy, a leading raw milk supplier in China, in order to gain better control over its milk supply. China's state-owned COFCO and US-based private-equity firm KKR - the largest ...
Tags: leading raw milk supplier, better control, milk supply
Danish dairy cooperative ArIa Foods has merged with German cooperative Milch-Union Hocheifel (MUH), following approvals from the European Commission. The merged business is called Arla Foods Deutschland. Arla is a dairy cooperative ...
Tags: dairy cooperative, merged business, long life milk and fresh liquid milk
Vermont Farmstead Cheese has introduced a new line of cheeses,the flavored WindsorDales.The company noted that WindsorDale is a raw milk cheese made using a late 1800 farmhouse Wensleydale recipe. The new product is a hard cheese with a ...
Tags: cheeses, raw milk, WindsorDale
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)has asked state health officials in the US to further restrict the sale of raw milk,in order to improve food safety in the country. In a letter to the officials,the CDC noted that ...
Tags: CDC, raw milk, food safety, pathogens