News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
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It is well established that the brain has metabolic requirements that must be satisfied by what we eat or in the case of infants, “what their mother eats”. In particular, dietary fats are fundamentally important for thinking, learning and memory...
Lebanese wheat and sugar storage facilities are “disastrous” and require massive improvements to be fit for use, according to health minister Wael Abou Faour.
Kellogg has triumphed in its battle to acquire Egyptian snack maker Bisco Misr, following the withdrawal of rival bidder Abraaj Capital at the end of last month.
Vietnamese pharmaceutical company VietPhap International has been given the rights to sell BioGaia’s ProTectis probiotic baby drops in its home market.
Research
With the amount of saline agricultural land expected to double by 2050, a Sino-Australian research effort has identified a specific soybean gene that it believes will vasty improve crop resistance to salt.
A former manager at US meat producer Midamar has pleaded guilty to faking certificates on meat sold as Halal, and admitted using Kosher beef in place of Halal meat, in shipments to Muslim countries.
Lebanon’s Tannourine Water is upgrading its bottling facilities with a system from Sidel, which will boost its production capacity to 31,500 bottles per hour.
Coming to Probiota 2015 - February 3-5, Amsterdam
Self-styled 'germvangelist' and microbiologist Jason Tetro says the probiotic industry is obsessed with technicalities and needs to venture back in time to access the innate, holistic power of probiotics.