Food labels and healthy signposts, food industry waits for consensus
UK food agency launches 'the largest research project to date', to establish the clearest route for food makers to use food labels to flag-up healthy foods.
Archives for May 17, 2005
Brussels alert on annatto recall confuses food industry
In our current uneasy climate of product recalls, sensitivities are high and Brussels can ill afford to fuel confusion, but in the latest document from Europe's central alert system, the reference to annatto, bixin and norbixin has done just that,...
Wiseman reassures anxious investors after FY results
Robert Wiseman Dairies has moved to allay its shareholders' concerns after announcing a disappointing decline in the company's full-year profits, stemming from last year's loss of a lucrative contract to supply Asda with fresh liquid milk, Tom...
Q1 slow but SMC confident as Nat Foods deadline looms
Philippine food and beverage manufacturer San Miguel has said that it expects its acquisition of Australia's National Foods to be completed before the close of May - despite so far failing to convince around 75 per cent of the company's shareholders...