Nan Fong Trading Company has initiated a food recall of Saigon Fish Sauce as a number bottles contain high levels of yeast.  The yeast is not harmful but could create fermentation, resulting in a slight...

Recommendations in a draft review of bilateral and regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), released today by the Productivity Commission (PC), would lower the threshold for Australian trade negotiations...

An ice cream you do not have to freeze, and chocolate pills which extend life expectancy are among the world’s newest consumer goods identified by Product Launch Analytics. Cesar Pereira, Research...

Netherlands firm Albert Heijn has launched an app for its customers to help them create shopping lists by scanning barcodes of products they are running out of using their mobile phone camera. The app,...

French retail giant Carrefour has signed an agreement to acquire 51% of Chinese hypermarket operator Baolongcang.The founders of Baolongcang, one of the main hypermarket operators in Hebei, near Beijing,...

CSR’s newly-sold sugar and renewable energy business, Sucrogen, through its joint venture, Sugar Australia, has signed an Agreement with GLG Life Tech Corporation for the distribution and marketing...

On Monday, Ajinomoto announced that the two companies were to join forces to develop products that are low in sugar and salt and that meet consumer demand to manage weight. Kellogg has insisted its tie-up...

New research suggests that cashew extract shows promise as an anti-diabetic, with a new study suggesting that the extract of the seeds, known to many as cashew nuts, may improve the body’s response...

New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally met with the chairman of China’s Bright Food Group this week, to discuss ways to promote the sale and distribution of NSW wines in China’s growing...

Fruit and vegetable supplier Fresh Produce Group has announced the purchase of the Produce One production facility at Arndell Park in Sydney, from FreshExchange (part of CostaExchange Group). The state-of-the-art...