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KMC eyes Middle Eastern promise for imitation cheese ingredients

By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Starch specialist KMC says it has developed two new starches for imitation cheese to cut costs and bring hard cheese alternatives to parts of the world where dairy ingredients may be difficult to handle or source, including the Middle East and North Africa.

Opinion

Supermarkets milking the limelight in latest dairy price war battle

By RJ Whitehead

Just as Woolworths announced in Australia this week that its third-quarter revenue had risen 2.5% largely due to increased sales of milk, its arch rival, Coles, revealed it had signed new contracts with two dairy farmer co-operatives.

Bird flu hits China's fresh poultry sales

By Wang Fangqing, in Shanghai

China’s meat sector has told Globalmeatnews.com that demand for fresh meat is slumping nationwide because of the new outbreak of H7N9 avian flu centred on Shanghai.