News & Analysis on the Dairy Industry & Markets
With an EU scientific study recommending that the European Commission set up a system to track deadly listeria infections in the bloc, processors will be under the gun to prevent the bacteria from entering the food chain.
A reverse osmosis machine capable of extracting excess water from milk is expected to significantly cut transport costs for New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra.
The EU is confident that the sugar reforms announced last week give producers a long-term competitive future, though firms such as Tate & Lyle remain cautious.
Cargill Juice Beverage Applications believes it can help beverage companies capture new trends and develop products in categories they may not have tackled before.
Lactalis, the largest French dairy processor, has struck a deal with Dutch dairy Friesland Foods to combine the two groups' marketing teams in Germany.
While Nestlé's chief executive continues to query the motives behind the Italian government's seizure of million of litres of its baby milk, details are emerging that infant formula from Royal Numico and SMA Nutrition may also be contaminated by the...
APV Baker has developed a new co-extrusion technology that will enable food makers in the cereal and snack market to add value to their products in a number of ways including a larger variety of shapes and an even wider range of fillings.
Russian packager and food producer Nevskie Syry has launched a new line of cheese packaging using inert gases that it says can significantly extend products' shelf-life.
In a bid to follow the growth of the beverage market eastwards, Crown will build a new can production plant in Kazakhstan.
Weekly comment
If the EU keeps hiding its agriculture sector behind huge pay cheques instead of devoting more time to food research funding, the bloc's whimpering and wailing will only get worse.