Sarah West-Sadler came up smiling when she won two prizes at the Foodex Meatex Student Foodexcellence Awards. But her journey to the podium has not been plain sailing, as she tells Stefan Chomka
Obesity has been in the headlines a lot recently, and quite rightly so. It is the second biggest killer in the world with over 400,000 deaths a year,...
Fast, energy efficient ovens and cookers that result in good looking products and also provide excellent taste and mouthfeel, are in high demand. Lucia Cockcroft reports on some of the latest equipment now available
Authentic, regional and traditional ingredients add quality to foods and attract a premium price. John Dunn discovers how advances in DNA technology ensure that what the food producer offers is pukka
Frantschach has designs on becoming the leader in active packaging in Europe. Stefan Chomka went to the company's Neoplex plant in Denmark to discover how it intends to do it
More farmer-controlled food manufacturing businesses will emerge as the agricultural sector tries to cope with CAP reform. But, without the right collaboration and expertise, many are destined to fail, says Rick Pendrous
I remember a whisky distiller that had 36 key performance indicators (KPIs) which occupied a whole wall in the chief executive's office. They gave a...
Unilever Bestfoods (UBF) has selected Power Europe, an Exel company, to develop and manage a new automated national distribution centre at Kingswood...
For over 50 years investment in manufacturing has been an issue for the UK economy. The result has been the decline of many industries for which the...
Contaminants create problems that seem to plague meat and fish producers, as was highlighted in the press earlier this year with the Scottish salmon...
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has advised manufacturers that food supplement products with high levels of certain vitamins or minerals should carry...
Ashworth Foods has sold its frozen unbaked savoury business to pie and slice producer Peter Hunt's Bakery Foods, a part of theLyndale group.The sale...
The inspection company EFSIS has introduced a halal standard for the first time.The standard is certified by UK Halal Corporation, which advises food...
Brakes is the latest company to heed government pressure on manufacturers to improve the health credentials of processed foods with the announcement...
The US Agricultural Research Service is working on technology that
shows the ratio of lean meat to fat in a commercial cut of pork.
According to scientists, the implications for the pork processing
and export industries could be immense.
Food giant Cargill has opened a plant to manufacture erythritol, a
sweetener that is claimed to taste like sugar but contain no
calories. The group believes there is real potential in the
product, and has already signed an agreement...
Ilapak is introducing some of its latest innovations in electronic
packaging technology at IBA 2003, demonstrating new methods for
bakeries to boost production line efficiency.
Unilever is to target the chilled dairy market in a number of
European countries from September as it pushes aggressively into
sectors with significant growth potential.
