What’s driving growth in the $35.8bn aseptic packaging market?
One aseptic technology leader says a consumer taste for natural foods and beverage, and longer shelf life, rank among factors driving sustained growth.
Archives for February 20, 2014
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‘Iconic beer brands often taste similar’: SAB Miller boss backs new styles
SAB Miller CEO Alan Clark admits that iconic beer brands often taste similar and says his firm is investing heavily in R&D on new styles and flavors to compete with cocktails, spirits and wine.
Food Visions: Industry needs to confront its communications crash or lose consumers forever
Food manufacturers, retailers and other food industry players are failing to connect with consumers who are tuning out of mainstream messaging and infesting their own comms channels, says angel investor, business mentor and philanthropist, Mike Greene.
Special edition: Pre & Probiotics
What is gut health? That's the blurry 800-pound gorilla in the room
In discussing gut health it’s wise to keep in mind the words of the late United States Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart when discussing a 1964 obscenity case. Pornography, Stewart said, was hard to pin down, but “I know it when I see it.” So it is...
Deadly Ukraine violence has not hit Carlsberg beer sales…yet
Carlsberg’s CEO says that deadly clashes between police and opposition protestors in Ukraine have not hit beer sales yet but hinted that they could do so in future.
Alchemy iPad app gets a grip on food safety
Alchemy systems’ Coach app enables food firms to perform safety and operational reviews from the plant floor via iPad.
'Rumble in the snack soda jungle': Peltz v. PepsiCo
As crusading investor Nelson Peltz lets off another bomb in the Pepsi boardroom – this time in the form of a 37-page letter criticizing the firm’s snack/soda integration – we examine the arguments for and against any split.
Risk of leaching from food packaging chemicals?
Food packaging innovation has delivered major breakthroughs in streamlining food processing and distribution, and providing consumer convenience and choice.
EFSA health claim opinions
EFSA rejects caffeine (alertness) and sterol (cholesterol) claims
Less than 75mg of caffeine per serving does not increase alertness, and the cholesterol-lowering ability of plant sterols cannot be communicated in food supplements, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found in two new opinions.