Denmark-based metal packaging firm Glud & Marstrand has come up with a new Peel-Off lid for infant formula products manufacturers. The new lid, which comes in a D shape, has been designed to offer additional functionality by ensuring ...
Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, has said that it could face a legal challenge from French dairy major Danone over an infant formula contamination scare. The company had discovered a potentially fatal ingredient in a ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy
New Zealand co-operative dairy company Westland Milk is planning to invest around $100m in an infant formula dryer at Hokitika. Following the consent approval, construction on the new dryer will begin in April and the dryer is expected to ...
Temasek, a sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Singapore, and private equity firm Hopu have agreed to purchase a $213m stake in Chinese infant formula maker Yashili International. The move comes after Yashili's parent company China ...
Tags: Temasek, Hopu, Yashili, China Mengniu Dairy
Arla Food Ingredients, a subsidiary of Swedish-Danish cooperative Arla Foods, has introduced new dry blend lactose, which will help infant formula manufacturers to boost output and lower costs. The new lactose can be introduced to the ...
Tags: Arla Food, Infant Formula
Five pharmacies in Beijing started using vending machines equipped with tracking systems to sell baby formula on Saturday, but sales on the first day did not go as well as expected. Zhang Dawei, who is in charge of business operations at ...
Tags: Baby Formula, Pharmacies, Vending Machines
Prolacta Bioscience, the pioneer of human milk-based nutritional products for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), will hold a grand opening event on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at their new facility in City of ...
Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy firm, is stepping towards the launch of its own branded milk formula in China, following the recent allegations that its products contained botulism-causing bacteria. Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings was ...
Tags: Fonterra, Milk Formula
Yashili New Zealand Dairy, a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based Yashili International, is set to commence construction work on its new infant formula plant in Pokeno, 50km south of Auckland. During the construction phase which will ...
Tags: Yashili, Dairy Manufacturing Plant
The Tianjin health bureau pledged at a meeting on Tuesday to investigate an allegation that French company Danone bribed hospital staff to give its milk powder to newborn babies. China Central Television reported on Monday that Danone, ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Diary Products
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being, Rospotrebnadzor, has lifted a temporary ban on imports of dairy products from New Zealand-based Fonterra, after it was revealed that botulism ...
Tags: Dairy Products, Food
Chinese company Yashili has received approval to establish a NZ$220m ($170.7m) infant formula production facility in Pokeno, New Zealand. The Waikato District Council gave clearance for the facility after a three-day hearing which was ...
Tags: Yashili, Infant Formula
Chinese dairy firm Liaoning Huishan Dairy is seeking to raise $1bn through initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong to increase its herd and improve milk yields. The milk producer is firming up plans to launch pre-deal marketing work on ...
Tags: Liaoning Huishan Dairy, Food
New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has found that Fonterra’s whey protein concentrate ingredient and the products made using it, including infant formula, were free from Clostridium botulinum. MPI has carried ...
Tags: Fonterra, Botulinum Concerns
China blocked 42 tons of Fonterra's whole milk powder from entering the country in May after checks at the border found excess levels of nitrites and it was sent back to New Zealand, the scandal-hit dairy giant confirmed Thursday. ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Nitrites