Published: Aug 24, 2012 By: Shane Starling

A United Nations report will warn of the nutritional time bomb ticking away in the cities of the world that will house more than five billion people by the year 2030.

Published: Aug 24, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

About 40% of all food produced in the United States goes to waste – an amount worth about $165bn, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

Published: Aug 24, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Starbucks’ food waste sent to a ‘food biorefinery’ has been turned into bioplastics that can be used in packaging thanks to Hong Kong researchers.

Published: Aug 24, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and McDonald’s Corp. have suspended meat purchases from Central Valley Meat Compan, despite USDA’s finding that no downer cattle entered the food supply.

Published: Aug 23, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Frutarom has posted strong double digit growth figures for its second quarter/half year results, driven by acquisitions, organic growth, price increases, falling raw material costs and more favourable purchasing deals.

Published: Aug 23, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) today “will open up new opportunities for Europe’s food business”, according to food industry trade body FoodDrinkEurope.

Published: Aug 23, 2012

Undercover video footage taken at Central Valley Meat in Hanford, Calif., does not show a downer cow entering the food supply, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

Published: Aug 16, 2012

China is set to break the 50,000 mark for foreign fast food outlets this year. This is a rise from 48,477 fast food outlets in 2011 and 36,037 in 2006.

Published: Aug 14, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Zero Waste Scotland says it will continue to invest in firms that cut product and packaging waste, as it encourages SME’s in the country to apply for grants from its newly announced ₤100,000 fund.

Published: Aug 14, 2012

In light of the recent public footage of questionable abattoir practices within Australia, Coles have suggested CCTV cameras may be the way of the future for its farmer suppliers.

Published: Aug 13, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Zero Waste Scotland says it will continue to invest in firms that cut product and packaging waste, as it encourages SME’s in the country to apply for grants from its newly announced ₤100,000 fund.

Published: Aug 10, 2012

The 2012 corn crop, rated only 23% good-to-excellent in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Crop Progress report, appeared to be spreading its bad vibrations throughout the supply chain that ends on the dinner tables or in the gas tanks of America

Published: Aug 07, 2012 By: Sue Scott

A market-busting 10% rise in demand for Organix baby food products has forced the company to tear up the spreadsheets and become the first manufacturer to adopt a new stock-monitoring and forecasting system that could lead to full vendor-managed inventory

Published: Jul 30, 2012

An unprecedented level of joint planning, innovation, and action between academia, governments, civil society and the food industry is required to battle the ‘double crisis’ that world hunger and high obesity rates are causing, warn researchers.

Published: Jul 27, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

Manufacturers must refocus efforts on Tier III and IV cities in China and delve into e-commerce to re-ignite consumer spending in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) sector amid a slow, according to analysts.

Published: Jul 27, 2012

Israeli supplier Lycored has paid an undisclosed sum for a Ukrainian firm specialising in fungal pathogen-derived carotenoids in a move that brings a natural beta carotene into its portfolio.

Published: Jul 27, 2012

Agriculture, at the moment, is the bright spot in the economy in many US states, one of which is California.

Published: Jul 24, 2012 By: Dancy

The apple industry in Himachal Pradesh is facing an acute labour shortage that has forced growers to find ways to overcome the problem.

Published: Jul 19, 2012 By: Shane Starling

UK supplier Gee Lawson has debuted organic red yeast rice (Monascus purpureus) into a sector dominated by Chinese supply and which has won a European Union health claim for cholesterol maintenance.

Published: Jul 13, 2012

An Australian fast-food chain has won a case in the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB), concerning an advertisement that allegedly disparaged people with tattoos and body piercings.