US ingredients group Martek Biosciences has entered into an agreement to supply Feihe Dairy, a subsidiary of American Dairy. Under the terms of the agreement, announced last week, Feihe Dairy will buy...

The UK’s Food Standards Agency today issued a warning to parents not to feed honey to children under 1 year old, after a confirmed case of infant botulism last month. While there have only been 11...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched a free online education program, designed to help franchisees make an informed decision when looking to buy a franchise. The program will...

Home-delivery produce business Aussie Farmers Direct has annoucned plans to invest $5.45 million in a private milk factory, in an attempt to break the foreign-owned control of Australian milk. The company...

American food advertising shows grossly distorted nutritional patterns, according to a study by the Armstrong Atlantic State University. Researchers documented food advertisiments on primetime and Saturday-morning...

A new variety of tomato, the Intense Tomato from SP Exports, has received the AUSVEG Innovative Marketing Award for its ‘no more soggy sandwiches’ campaign. The tomato lacks gel to hold water,...

Kellogg has agreed to pull a health claim it made on Rice Krispies in the US, the country’s advertising watchdog said yesterday.The cereal giant had advertised its Rice Krispies brand as helping...

Dutch-Italian confectioner Perfetti van Melle has decided to close a factory producing Barcelona’s iconic lollipop, Chupa Chups, in an attempt to keep the confectionary’s production in the...

Jindi Cheese, Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses, Kraft Foods (for the Vegemite Port Melbourne operations) and the Murray Goulburn Co-operative have been inducted into the 2010 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of...

On 28 May 2010, New Zealand became the fourth country in the world to outlaw shechita, the slaughtering of animals according to Jewish law to produce kosher meat and poultry. New Zealand’s ban on...