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Toyota Tsusho, Malayan Flour Mills and Indonesia's FKS Capital have agreed to invest 5.2bn yen ($66m) to set up a flour mill company in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Canadian Functional Technologies has developed a proprietary yeast strain that could cut the fermentation time of acrylamide, reducing it to undetectable levels within food.
UK food and non-alcoholic drink exports increased to £5.8bn in the first half of 2011, up 13% year-on-year, according to the latest figures released by the Food and Drink Federation...
US-headquartered ADM Cocoa, a producer of cocoa, chocolate and confectionery ingredients, has developed a range of fillings that combine an ‘indulgent taste’ with a shelf-life of between six and nine...
French sugar cooperative Cristal Union has agreed to acquire Vermandoise in a deal valued at nearly €1bn ($1.3bn), which would create France's second largest sugar group.
American consumer goods company Sara Lee said it is finalising discussions with the US Department of Justice over the sale of its North American Fresh Bakery business to Grupo Bimbo.
Danish researchers have developed a new method, which uses potato waste for the extraction of rhamnogalacturonan I (RG-I), a pectic polysaccharide, that could be used to produce new ingredients and...
Air Products has launched its new Freshline QS tunnel freezer, which can be used to cryogenically freeze or chill foods such as meat and poultry, seafood, fruits and vegetables, pasta,...
The US dairy market has seen an overall rise in year-on-year production with slight decreases in the production of some cheeses and dry milk, according to the latest dairy report...
Scientists at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) and John Innes Centre in the UK have developed a heart disease and cancer-fighting broccoli.
