4Breaking
Agrivalue™
News
P&G donates snack food technology
Proctor and
Gamble Co. is giving the Mid-America Commercialization Corp.
technology that could help increase the nutritional value of snack
foods.
Full
Story bizjournals.com (January 2003)
A 'cheese' that lowers cholesterol
Scientists have
developed a cheddar "cheese" that actually lowers cholesterol. The
product, called "A Healthy Alternative to Cheese", follows hot on
the heels of cholesterol-lowering margarine spreads and yoghurts.
Full
Story bbc.co.uk (January 2003)
Food and beverage companies launch national effort to combat
obesity
The food and beverage industry, partnering with other
related companies and associations, today launched a national effort
to get practical information into the hands of parents, teachers,
communities and policymakers about effective solutions for tackling
obesity.
Full
Story foodingredientsfirst.com (January 2003)
Surveys reveal much about our dining and shopping
habits
They're watching us. Supermarkets, food manufacturers,
restaurants are all constantly trying to figure out where and how
you and I are going to spend our food dollars.
Full
Story nwsource.com (January 2003)
New Food Embossing Inventions Make Foods
Talk
Advertising foods is nothing new.
Creating
foods that advertise, however, is a different story.
New York-based Gourmet Impression LLC has developed two new
hand-held tools that allow restaurants, caterers, and other food
businesses to turn pizzas, calzones, and other food items into
edible experiences and advertisements. Using modular devices called
the "Roller" and the "Stamper", companies can emboss their logo or
advertising messages on food items. Initial prototypes are designed
for pizzas, calzones, bread sticks, cheeses, melons, white bread,
pita breads, brownies, pies, butter sticks as well as baked
potatoes.
Full
Story foodonline.com (January 2003).
Heinz Canada and Snowcrest Packers Ltd. Finalize Deal for
Omstead Foods Limited
Heinz Canada and Snow crest Packers
Ltd. today jointly announced they have finalized an agreement for
Snow crest Packers Ltd. to acquire Omstead Foods Ltd. Headquartered
in Abbotsford, B.C. Snow crest Packers Ltd. is a leading supplier of
fruits and vegetables in Western Canada.
Full
Story biz.yahoo.com (January 2003)
Vegetable additives extend meat shelf
life
Researchers from the University of Zaragoza in
Spain have developed a method to extend the shelf life of burgers
using peppers and tomatoes.
Full
Story foodproductiondaily.com (January 2003)
Rich Fish
Scientists Working to Make Fish Even More
Healthy to Eat
Researchers at Purdue University are creating
designer diets for farm-raised fish that could make fish healthier
and tastier for humans to eat.
Full
Story more.abcnews.go.com (January 2003)
McDonald's switches to organic milk
McDonald's is to
start selling cartons of organic milk in its UK outlets. The chain
will switch to selling only carton milk from organically-reared
British cows from next month.
Full
Story www.ananova (January 2003)
Farmers hope canola oil will aid profits
Georgia could
be on the verge of a canola revival. In the mid-1990s, Georgia
farmers led the nation in the production of canola, a bean that
produces a healthy cooking oil with half the saturated fat of other
vegetable oils, and meal that can be used for poultry and livestock
feed. Full
Story www.newsday.com (January 2003)
Fibre Board Company Receives $317,500 to Utilize Alberta Ag
Fibres
(Calgary) Canadian Fibretech Inc., based
in Forestburg, Alta., has received a $317,500 AVAC Pre-Commercial
and Entrepreneurial investment, AVAC announced today.
Full
Story (January 2003)
AVAC Ltd. and BioAlberta Host Alberta BioProducts
Showcase
(Calgary) AVAC Ltd. and BioAlberta will host
the first-ever Alberta BioProducts Showcase on January 16 at the
Delta Calgary Airport Hotel to display Alberta's emerging
opportunities in bioproducts.
Full
Story (January 2003)
Ready-to-eat surface treatment
A new product called
acidified calcium sulphate is showing promise as a way to kill
Listeria monocytogenes in products such as lunchmeats and certain
cheeses.
Full
Story foodproductiondaily.com (January 2003)
ACNielsen consumer pre*view study finds consumers too tired to
cook or clean
Half of all heads of household "too worn out"
for evening meal prep
ACNielsen U.S., an operating unit of
ACNielsen, a VNU company, today reported that half of all heads of
household are too tired to put much time or effort into evening meal
preparation, and nearly two-thirds are constantly looking for faster
ways to do household chores. Such time-pressured sentiments are
making convenience-oriented food and cleaning items some of the
fastest-growing consumer packaged goods (CPG) products on the
market, according to the most recent ACNielsen Consumer Pre*View
survey of consumer attitudes and behaviors.
Full
Story acnielsen.com (January 2003)
Flavor trends in foodservice
Ongoing research of the
top 200 restaurant chains (those with annual sales roughly at $70
million or higher) reveals today’s menus feature bolder flavors, in
order to respond to consumer interest in foods that are both
flavorful and satisfying. Food Beat™ Inc. provides the following
snapshot of what is happening with flavors on chain menus, in the
major menu categories of appetizers, entrée salads and
sandwiches.
Full
Story preparedfoods.com (January 2003)
EU outlines stricter meat labelling
The EU has enforced
a directive to tighten up the definition of the term "meat" for the
labelling of meat-based products.
Full
Story foodproductiondaily (January 2003)
Tiffin Conference Series 2003, Co-Sponsored by AVAC
Ltd.
"The Future is Upon Us"
Lethbridge Community College,
Lethbridge, AB
Conference #1: Thursday, January 9, 2003: 11:00
a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Conference #2: Thursday, February 13, 2003: 2:30
p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Conference #3: Thursday, March 13, 2003: 11:00
a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Full
Story (January 2003)
New food nutrition labels will be the most detailed in the
world
Health activists are welcoming new federal regulations
that will give Canadians the most detailed food nutrition labels in
the world. Packaged food products will be required to carry
information on 13 key nutrients in a consistent format to make
comparison easy, under regulations described at a news conference
Thursday, January 2.
Full
Story Canada.com (January 2003)
2002 New Product Introductions Exceed 22,000
According to Mintel's Global New Products
Database
2002 has
proven itself to be the most successful year for new product
introductions since 1995, with the number of introductions exceeding
22,000. This figure is an increase of 15% over 2001.
Full Story
Yahoo Financial (December 2002)
Leading Food Service Company Kicks Off New Sustainable
Agriculture Partnership
Rapidly growing sustainability trend
brings Food Alliance and BonAppetit together.
Full
Story Food Alliance (December 2002)
Doctors sue Tyson over ads claiming chicken is heart-healthy
and 'natural'
Latest attack on 'Big Food' includes opposing
ad campaign.
Full Story
PCRM News Release (December 2002)
FDA trans fat nutrition label claim unnecessary
GMA
opposes misleading footnote statements.
Full
Story gmabrands.com (December 2002)
The latest news for the worldwide petfood industry
Full Story
- PDF Wattnet.com (December 2002)
Ostrich businesses
struggling
In the early 1900s, ostrich feathers were all
the rage, decorating the hats and dresses of the upper
classes. Today, sturdy ostrich leather is prized by chic
designers, who use the tough material to make belts, shoes and even
purses. But when it comes to making a profit in the ostrich
industry, there is little else that is
glamorous.
Full
Story The Times - nj.com (December 2002)
End to biopharm crops called
A coalition of health,
consumer and environmental groups has filed a formal legal petition
with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to halt the planting of
"biopharm" crops, plants genetically engineered to contain
pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.
Full
Story USA Today (December 2002)
EnviroSystems announces plans to expand offering of powerful
infection control products
New nanotechnology-based products
to help in war against infectious disease and
bio-terrorism.
Full
Story Food Online (December 2002)
New white wine has red's health benefits
Winemakers
have created a white wine that should have nearly all the alleged
health benefits of red wines.
Full
Story NewScientist.com (December 2002)
Americans Hunger for Healthy Options as Organic Foods Go
Mainstream
Gone are the days when organic foods were
just for a small group of health fanatics. Today, nearly every
American is not only familiar with organic products, but 58% of the
public has purchased a food item labelled organic, according to a
recent eBrain Market Research Online Poll.
Full
Story yahoo.com (December 2002)
Made out of milk
A new orange soda containing milk
nutrients. Dairilean Inc., Sioux Falls, S.D., appears to be
inventing a new category with the introduction of a nutritious soda
called M.O.O.M. An acronym for “made out of milk,” M.O.O.M. was
designed to help traditional soda drinkers—basically kids—consume
more calcium and other milk nutrients.
Full
Story dairyfoods.com (December 2002)
Sausage casing technology break through
A long-term
collaborative effort between casings supplier Viskase and specialty
chemical company Rhodia Food has resulted in NOJAX AL, a cellulose
casing that effectively reduces the risk of Listeria monocytogenes
surface contamination in the production of hot dogs and other cooked
sausage products.
Full
Story foodproductiondaily.com (December 2002)
New innovative worldwide food product
introductions
Here are some of the new food product
introductions registered by Mintel's Global New Products Database
this past month around the world: goose chips, sweet potato ice
cream, alcoholic yogurt, Cheerios sweet snack and potato
"milk."
Full
Story just-food.com (December 2000)
Turning food waste into plastic
A meal you don't eat
could return to your kitchen table not as leftovers, but as plastic
wrap.
Full
Story CNN.com (December 2002)
BioAlberta responds to supreme court decision on Harvard mouse
case
Edmonton, Alberta - December 5, 2002 The decision
released today by the Supreme Court on the Harvard Mouse is
disappointing news for Canadian innovators, consumers, and the
Canadian biotechnology community. This decision means innovators of
new, multi-cell plant and animal products , will not have patent
protection for their innovations in Canada.
Full
Story (Word document) (December 2000)
Sports and energy drinks: tapping in on
Asia
Asia accounts for nearly half of the world's sales
of sports and energy drinks and contains five of the top 10 markets
in per capita terms, yet it is one of the most underdeveloped global
markets, and the two categories have only a weak presence in a
number of countries in the region.
Full
Story foodproductiondaily.com (December 2000)
Ag department likely to tighten rules on biotech
corn, official says
The USDA is facing pressure from food
processors over checks on biotech crops.
Full
Story desmoinesregister.com
Information Session on Proposed Amendments to Food
Irradiation Provisions under the Food and Drug
Regulations
On behalf of the Food Directorate of
Health Canada, I would like to invite you to participate in a public
information session on proposed regulatory changes for food
irradiation. The session for Alberta and the Northwest Territories
will be held on Wednesday, January 15, 2003, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
in the Auditorium of the Telus Centre at the University of Alberta,
111 St. and 87 Ave., Edmonton, Alberta.
More
Info
Cranberry growers seek profit beyond the dinner
table
The cranberry industry wants you thinking about more
than turkey when you dollop the tart, red fruit across your plate of
Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. For struggling cranberry growers, the
future could lie in makeup, medicine and more.
Full
Story www.yahoo.com
Novartis postpones sale of health food
unit
The weak global economy thwarted yet another deal on
Friday when Novartis AG (NOVZn.VX) postponed the planned sale of its
health food, slimming and sport nutrition brands because of a lack
of attractive offers. Full
Story www.yahoo.com
Only Some Chocolate is Heart Healthy --
Researchers
Chocolate and cocoa may help prevent heart
attacks, researchers said on Wednesday, but don't run to the office
vending machine yet. So far, just two commercially available
chocolate products -- Dove dark chocolate bars and M&M Baking
Bits -- are known to contain high levels of flavanol, the substance
linked to heart health, they said.
Full
Story www.yahoo.com
Food Alliance Exec Fights to Make Healthy Food
Accessible
Deborah Kane looks about as intimidating as a
Volkswagen bug and yet the petite 35-year-old executive director of
the Food Alliance is quickly becoming a giant in the world of
alternative agriculture. For years, food labeled as organic has been
available in natural food markets, and while the organic
certification guarantees consumers pesticide-free food—it also
ensures a hefty price tag.
Full
Story www.bizjournals.com
Beef Shipments to US Halted From Canada Tyson
Plant
Beef shipments into the United States from Tyson Foods
Corp.'s Alberta, Canada, plant have been halted since Friday because
of concerns about food-safety controls there, a Tyson spokesman said
on Tuesday
Full
Story www.reuters.com
Ready meal solutions for food
manufacturers
The current pace of life demands speedy
solutions from the food industry. The ready meals market in western
Europe, one of the strongest performing areas of the food sector
worth €7.3 billion in 2001, is set to grow to €8.7 billion by 2006.
A New Consumer Insight program, the result of consumer surveys,
focus groups and interviews from market analysts Data monitor,
presents ten key consumer insights for ready meal, prepared pizza
and meal kit players.
Full
Story FoodProductionDaily.com
Food for Thought Fall Issue
A quarterly
publication on the North American food processing industry. In this
edition you'll find a review of the North American economy,
highlights from the "Benchmarking for Success 2002" survey, an
article entitled "Valuing Brand Names", and a review of the capital
markets.
Full
Story (PDF) Deloitte & Touch
Cancer-Fighting Tomato Tops America's 2002 Best in
Biotech
Consumers select top five biotech advances of the
year -- The prospect of a cancer-fighting tomato has been named the
top development in food biotechnology in 2002, according to a Roper
survey of 1,000 randomly selected American adults.
Full Story
Whybiotech.com
Biacore develops new screening system for food
safety
Biacore, the global leader in Surface Plasmon
Resonance technology based systems yesterday unveiled its latest
development in biosensor technology for food safety
tracking.
Full
Story Food Production Daily.com
| 