Latest News in the food Industry

19 Sep 2024

Large-scale efforts are underway to drastically change the African food sector with a $61 billion (€55 bn) set of proposed transformation plans to be implemented across forty countries. Yet there are concerns that this initiative severely jeopardises s...

17 Sep 2024

In the US, Diestel Family Ranch, a family-owned turkey farming venture, has become the first producer to gain Regenified certification for its whole turkey and processed turkey product ranges.

6 Sep 2024

The European Union’s (EU) legislative arm publishes its latest guidance on protecting the market’s food supply chain against current and future crises.

4 Sep 2024

China plans to introduce four front-of-pack nutrition labels simultaneously depending on products’ nutritional profile, including a black-and-white warning label, an A-D rating, and a “Smart Choice” message.

15 Aug 2024

Despite growing consumer awareness – and concern – about ultra-processed foods (UPFs), a significant gap persists between knowledge and perceptions of the category. Recent research shows that many US consumers cannot correctly identify UPF products and...

14 Aug 2024

As a new WHO report puts processed foods in the same harmful category as tobacco, confusion behind ultra-processed food (UPF) science remains, stalling policy and regulatory creation.

13 Aug 2024

The food industry is making slow progress in reducing the high levels of sugar, fat, and salt in German food and beverage products marketed to children, according to the Max Rubner Institute (MRI).

12 Aug 2024

Swedish company Drood Winery has successfully challenged the Swedish Food Agency’s decision to prohibit the production and sale of their product made from frozen grapes imported from Iran.

9 Aug 2024

Scheduled for December 2024, Venezuela will introduce mandatory warning labels on foods to inform consumers if they are high in salt, saturated fat, sugar, and trans fats.

6 Aug 2024

In an examination of 190 whole grain products, the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) uncovered that more than a quarter of the products were inaccurately labelled, constituting deception.

2 Aug 2024

A recent study has found that around two-thirds of the daily calories consumed by UK adolescents come from ultra-processed foods (UPFs). UPF consumption was highest among adolescents from deprived backgrounds, of white ethnicity, and younger ages.

26 Jul 2024

A Dutch court has ruled against Upfield’s plant-based butter, Roombeter, stating that its use of the word ‘room’ (cream) in the product name violates European regulations that protect dairy-related terms allowed for dairy products only.