Reported by The Straits Times, China has requested the Canadian government to suspend all imports of meat to China after “forged” export certificates were discovered. In a statement on the Chinese Embassy website, China launched an investigation after inspections found residues of a feed additive—ractopamine in Canadian pork that was…
Kerry Group Opens €20 Million Production Facility In Tumkur, India
The new, state-of-the-art 40,585 square metre facility, located 120km from Bangalore, will serve Kerry Taste & Nutrition’s global and regional customers in the South West Asia region, with Kerry Taste and Beverage systems for the fast-growing retail and Foodservice markets. This is Kerry Group’s fourth significant investment in India and…
Cargill Opens Food Innovation Center In Singapore
Cargill has opened its first innovation center in Singapore to help customers anticipate market forces and shifting consumer values around tastes, nutrition and food safety. The innovation center in Singapore will employ 20 food scientists by the end of 2019. Cargill’s global presence enables the company to stay at the…
Infor Announces New India Business Unit
Infor has announced the India Business Unit (IBU) as a new separate region—comprising India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan—to further accelerate progress and tap growth opportunities in this vast market. Additionally, Ranga Pothula is named managing director and general manager for the IBU to drive the next phase of growth. This…
Thai Consumers Want To Improve Their Diets
According to a new report by Food Industry Asia (FIA) and research firm IGD, almost all consumers in Thailand (99 percent) are interested in improving their diets and a majority (82 percent) are happy for products to be reformulated, provided that taste is not compromised. The first of its kind…
Firmenich Invests In ArtSci As Strategic Growth Partner For Flavours In China
Firmenich has announced its strategic partnership with ArtSci Biology Technologies (Hangzhou) Company Limited (“ArtSci”), taking a minority equity stake in this local flavour company in China. Building on Firmenich’s distributor agreement with ArtSci, this investment will further expand the Group’s reach across Central and Western China’s middle-market where ArtSci is…
Cooling Tower Optimisation
Food and beverage production requires a large range of temperatures. This means that plants must have effective cooling systems to deal with the excess heat. Removing the excess heat from the system requires a cooling tower, however, traditional designs require frequent maintenance. Here Darcy Simonis, food and beverage group vice…
AAK Launches COBAO Pure—A Breakthrough Chocolate Bloom Retarder
COBAO Pure is a new cocoa butter from AAK that delivers significantly improved bloom-retarding effects in all kinds of applications including milk and dark chocolate tablets, coated and filled products, and dark chocolate with nuts. It delays migration and heat-related bloom, extending the shelf life with between 50 and 400…
Discover Key APAC Nutraceutical Trends At Vitafoods Asia
Vitafoods Asia, the nutraceutical event for the Asia Pacific region, brings together the three key ingredients required to develop and launch new innovations from lab to market: science, business, and government agencies. Key consumption trends in nutraceuticals in the Asia Pacific region for 2019 include: ‘Feel The Benefit’ Most…
Tesco Reduces Food Waste By 17 Percent
UK supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it has reduced the amount of food wasted from operations by nearly a fifth, over a 12-month period. 44,297 tonnes of food were wasted in 2018/2019, which is 17 percent less than the previous period. The supermarket is now 81 percent of the…
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