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20-Dec-2002

Givaudan buys dairy flavours

Swiss flavours company Givaudan has signed an agreement to acquire International Bioflavors - a leading US producer of natural cheese and dairy flavours. In a...

19-Dec-2002

No dearth of healthy dairy products

With the booming trend in health products, dairy manufacturers, increasingly under pressure to innovate, have found strong potential for new products with added health benefits....

Extending dairy shelf life

Research carried out at the Texas A&M university could improve dairy industry consumer products of tomorrow, claim scientists this week. For a doctoral thesis, Alexander...

18-Dec-2002

Valio boosted by lactose-free success

Finnish dairy group Valio began exporting its lactose-free milk drink to Sweden at the beginning of November 2002, and the popularity of the product in...

17-Dec-2002

Poor dairy prices point to falling profits

In Ireland weak dairy prices are pointing to falling profits for the Irish Dairy Board this year, even though the company grew sales in all...

Dairy leak causes soy milk recall

In the US a Missouri company has announced the recall of 5,069 cases of soymilk packaged under the brand names of Stop & Shop, Western...

13-Dec-2002

Research into dairy waste treatment system

In the US, Bion Environmental Technologies and the California Agricultural Technology Institute (CATI) at California State University, Fresno, have announced that they will work together...

12-Dec-2002

New hard cheese packaging extends shelf life

Hard cheeses packed in new biopolymers which will give them an extended shelf-life may be on the shelves in the near future. Substituting fossil plastic...

Fortified cereals hit the mark

Scientists at the Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) in Houston,Texas, have found that ready-to-eat cereals fortified with a moderateamount of calcium can help kids meet...

France to appeal against feta ruling

France's Agriculture Minister Herve Gaymard has confirmed that the government will appeal against the recent ruling from Brussels granting protected denomination of origin (PDO) status...

11-Dec-2002

Australian drought impacts global dairy prices

The price of dairy products across the globe are expected to rise moderately over the course of the next few months due to the prolonged...

UK equipment supplier captures Japanese ice cream market

A small UK food ice cream equipment supplier, Unice, has cornered the Japanese ice cream dispensing with its high tech system. The rise to far-Eastern...

10-Dec-2002

Tetra Pak launches new aseptic filling technology

Tetra Pak, the Swiss-based global food processing and packaging equipment company, has had its first aseptic filling technology for the production of HPDE bottles approved...

Milk blamed for iron deficiency in tots

Leading nutritional experts yesterday called for new initiatives to tackle iron deficiency among young children after a conference heard that one in four infants over...

09-Dec-2002

Keep your teeth - drink up your milk!

Scientists in the US have found strong evidence linking a lack of vitamin D and calcium with tooth loss in the elderly. They say that...

06-Dec-2002

Changing the cheese can make a difference

Changing consumption of normal cheese to cheese made from vegetable oils can reduce cholesterol levels in some people, according to a new study published in...

05-Dec-2002

Nestlé drops milk-buying in the UK

Nestle has dropped its milk-buying activities in the UK, after the country finally looses its war-time habit of consuming condensed and evaporated milk. According to...

No let up in expansion for WBD

Russia's biggest dairy processor Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD) has reported a 20.3 per cent rise in sales for the first nine months of 2002, with operating profits...

04-Dec-2002

SIG establishes factory in China

SIG Combibloc, part of the Swiss international packaging giant SIG, has begun to construct its first factory in China today. The factory is located in...

Outlook: sunny, but the milk's still cold

Spanish food equipment manufacturer, Tarre, in collaboration with the Public University of Navarre has built a prototype for cooling milk using energy from the sun....

Ban on Latvian dairy lifted

The Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service has removed the ban on the sale of curd and curd products by Latvian dairy company Rigas Piensaimnieks....

Hispanic cheese under the knife

Hispanic-style cheese made in Mexico may provide US scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the chief scientific research agency for the US department of...

02-Dec-2002

New analyser to test milk composition

Danish food and beverage analysis provider, Foss, has launched the MilkoScan Minor, a simple solution for milk composition analysis. According to Foss, the solution offers...

WBD continues regional expansion

Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods, Russia's leading dairy and fruit juice producer, has continued its rapid expansion programme which has already seen it add a number of production...

UK's number one boosted by Nestlé ice cream buy

The acquisition of Nestle UK's ice cream operations and the consolidation of production facilities have contributed to an excellent performance in 2002 by ice cream...

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