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Plant-based & Alternative Proteins
Ultra-processed plant-based meat alternatives: Healthy or harmful?
4 Feb 2025
Although plant-based meats have been under increasing scrutiny for their ultra-processed nature, they might still offer major health benefits compared with animal-based alternatives.
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Singapore introduces Food Safety and Security Bill
3 Feb 2025
Amid growing food safety concerns and supply chain disruptions, the Singapore Food Agency passes its Food Safety and Security Bill (FSSB) to provide greater clarity, assurance, and credibility.
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Brands, retailers, and countries remain divided over Nutri-Score labels
30 Jan 2025
Europe's supermarkets and manufacturers are far from aligned over a standarised approach to nutrition labelling. Some welcome the non-mandatory Nutri-Score labels with open arms, while others have “considerable concerns”.
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Impossible Foods secures reinstatement of EU patent for heme protein
28 Jan 2025
The decision overturns the 2022 revocation of the patent and solidifies legal protection of the innovative ingredient that can be used in plant-based food production.
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US wins GMO corn trade dispute with Mexico
24 Jan 2025
A Mexican decree banning imports of genetically modified (GM) corn for human consumption has been overturned in what has been hailed as a victory for US exports.
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Low-hanging fruit for the blended meat industry? Jackfruit’s potential as a high-fibre, clean-label ‘hybrid’ ingredient
23 Jan 2025
As consumer demand for more sustainable, clean-label meat alternatives and hybrid meat ingredients grows, Fiber Foods is positioning jackfruit as a key solution to solve taste, nutritional, and processing issues faced by other blended meat products.
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Louis Drefyus Company powers on in plant-based with BASF ingredients acquisition
17 Jan 2025
BASF has agreed to sell its food and health performance ingredients business to Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC).
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Kraft Heinz, Mondelēz, Coca-Cola, and Nestlé accused of marketing ‘addictive’ UPFs at children
15 Jan 2025
Major food manufacturers have been hit with a first-of-its-kind lawsuit alleging that they specifically engineer their ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to be addictive, and that they market the products towards children.
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Siniora Foods plans multi-million-dollar food manufacturing plant in Saudi Arabia
14 Jan 2025
Food processing company Siniora Foods builds upon its expansion efforts with a new food manufacturing facility in the burgeoning Saudi Arabian market.
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HyFun Foods team up with Woolworths to expand frozen foods
13 Jan 2025
Ready-to-eat frozen food provider HyFun Foods partners with multinational retail giant Woolworths to move the premiumisation of frozen foods further into mainstream food aisles.
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California companies required to disclose heavy metal content in baby food
10 Jan 2025
As of January 2025, baby food manufacturers selling in California must disclose test results for four heavy metals – arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury – via an on-pack QR code.
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Is meat consumption a barrier to China’s GHG emission-lowering potential?
8 Jan 2025
New research by the global industry community Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) finds that adopting healthy diets could halve the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in China from the country’s agricultural sector by 2050.
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