Meat Products, Savoury Foods & Ingredients

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01 May 2013

Goya Foods Redesigns Marinades Line by Converting Glass to Lightweight PET

01 May 2013 --- Goya Foods Inc., based in Secaucus, N.J., the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S. and a leader in Latin American food and condiments industries, has undertaken a major redesign of its marinade product line, converting 12oz (355ml) and 24.5oz (725ml) products from glass to lightweight polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading....

01 May 2013

Ardagh and Bonduelle Launch Next Generation Food Can

01 May 2013 --- After ten years in development Ardagh and Bonduelle have launched a new food can which delivers enhanced consumer appeal, together with significant environmental benefits. The development represents a significant advance in DWI can production and processing technology.

26 April 2013

EU Commission Refers Greece and Italy to Court Over Battery Hens Violation

26 Apr 2013 --- The European Commission has decided to take Greece and Italy to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the failure to correctly implement Directive 1999/74/EC banning "un-enriched cages" (battery cages).

12 April 2013

Welsh Country Foods Announces Site Closure

12 Apr 2013 --- Welsh Country Foods (WCF) has announced that its lamb processing business on the Island of Anglesey will close with immediate effect. The news comes following the completion of a 90-day consultation exercise with unions and workers which began in January.

09 April 2013

DuPont Nutrition & Health to Demonstrate its Relevance for the Meat Industry at IFFA 2013

09 Apr 2013 --- For the first time, DuPont will showcase its full portfolio of solutions for the Meat Industry at IFFA in May.

25 March 2013

Hungarian Horse Meat Labelled as Beef

25 Mar 2013 --- The Food Standards Agency has been informed by Lancashire County Council that it has identified 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef.

01 March 2013

Horsemeat: Commission Issues Official Control Plans on Sampling

The FSA has published further details of the European Union sampling programme that was agreed by member states and announced by the FSA last week.

28 February 2013

Tesco to Use More British Meat in Wake of Horsemeat Scandal

Leading UK retailer Tesco has said it would buy more meat from its home market in Britain and shorten supply chains after the discovery of horsemeat in beef products shook consumer confidence in supermarket sourcing.

18 February 2013

Smithfield Foods to Form Joint Venture With Kansas City Sausage Company

"With our strong ongoing focus on building our packaged meats business, and with 15% of the United States sow population, this joint venture is a logical fit for Smithfield. It will provide a growth platform in two key packaged meats categories – breakfast sausage and dinner sausage – and will allow us to expand our product offerings to our customers."said C. Larry Pope, president and chief execut....

14 February 2013

EU Orders Tests to Discover Scale Of Horsemeat Fraud

As President of the EU Council of Agriculture Ministers, Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, has chaired a meeting with the EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, Tonio Borg and Ministers from Member States directly affected by the serious disclosures of mislabelling of processed meat products.

29 January 2013

Polish Company Blamed for Horse Meat Scandal

On Saturday 26th January, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD confirmed that results received overnight were positive for equine DNA in meat imported from Poland as raw material for the production of burgers at Silvercrest.

17 January 2013

Tesco Makes Public Apology in Horsemeat Scandal, UK FSA Meets With Industry

As the next step in the investigation into the results of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland survey of beef products, the Food Standards Agency has met with representatives from the food industry (producers, processors and retailers) from all parts of the UK. The meeting explored the reasons that could have led to a number of beef products on sale in the UK and the Republic of Ireland containing....

10 January 2013

VION Announces Successful Completion of MBO For UK Pork Division

Commenting on this announcement Peter Barr, chairman of VION UK, said: “Following the formal completion of the MBO, we would like to wish the new management team every success as the business embarks on the next stage of its development.”

14 December 2012

Vion Announces Successful MBO Of UK Pork Division

Dutch-based food producer VION NV has reached an agreement for a management buy-out of its UK pork operations, securing around 4,000 jobs, subject to Competition Authority approval in Ireland.

14 December 2012

Rabobank Beef Quarterly Q4: Global Beef Prices To Reach Record Levels In 2013

The final quarter of 2012 has seen the beef market characterized by slightly larger global supply, driven mainly by the natural recovery of herds in Brazil, Argentina and Australia. This, combined with a relatively lethargic world economy, has weighed on prices across the globe. Among the most important cattle exporting countries prices in local currencies have risen only in the US and New Zealand....

14 November 2012

Pearlfisher Creates New Identity And Packaging For Simply Sausages From Cranswick

Natalie continued, “We have used a woodcut style illustration to reflect the authenticity, craft and heritage of the brand but included a quirky element to each illustration depicting an amusing or eccentric pictorial representation of the variant.

12 November 2012

Sirane Made Christmas Easy Through Non-Stick Cooking Bag For Poultry

Cooking poultry in a bag can reduce cooking times significantly, stops the meat drying out and crisps the bird beautifully – but the skin sticks to the bag.

12 November 2012

Faerch Offers Fresh Meat Packaging Revolution

The brand new packaging product, designed primarily for manufacturing trays for meat and poultry, has the same properties as multi-layer materials.

27 September 2012

Finnish Study Looks at Link Between Lower Socio-Economic Status and Unhealthy Diet

People with lower levels of education and income have less healthy dietary habits, partly because of their higher priority for price and familiarity, and their lower priority for health as a motive for food purchase. Price reduction of foods such as fruits and vegetables might therefore be an effective strategy for diet improvement, but the potential of different pricing strategies needs further r....

26 September 2012

ConAgra Foods to Expand Operations in Russellville, Arizona

Expansion due to acquisition of Bertolli and P.F. Chang's frozen meals. The expansion, anticipated to be a $100 million investment, is expected to create more than 80 jobs.

25 September 2012

Retail Expert Tells AgriFood ATP "Science Is Our Best Hope" For Facing Global Pressures

Alan Wilson, Waitrose’s technical manager (agronomy), said pressures caused by population growth and uncertain climate patterns meant technical solutions to food supply problems were more important than ever.

20 September 2012

DSM in Negotiations to Acquire Cargill’s Cultures and Enzymes Business

The cultures and enzymes business of Cargill is a global leading manufacturer of cultures and enzymes for the dairy and meat industries with manufacturing operations in Wisconsin (USA) and France.

20 September 2012

Purac Wins FI Excellence Award 2012

PuraQ Arome NA4 was nominated for the category 'Most Innovative Food Ingredient', which resulted in the second award for this fermentation-based ingredient within a year. In 2011, PuraQ Arome NA4 already won the Fi Excellence Award Europe in the category "Savory/Meat Innovation of the Year".

18 September 2012

Neogen Receives USDA Letter of No Objection for Pathogen Detection System

The letter of no objection allows the use of the 24-hour NeoSEEK STEC system as a confirmatory method for six STEC serogroups (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145) and states the NeoSEEK system is comparable to the reference method, FSIS MLG 5B.02, which can take three or more days to achieve a confirmatory result.

14 September 2012

Cargill and Safeway Join Forces on Beef Venture

The beef we produce here showcases the finest efforts of Colorado’s cattle ranching families and represents the dedication, investment and hard work associated with cattle production that feeds millions of people.