Nestlé announced on Monday the launch of its Jenny Craig weight management programme in France in response to rising levels of overweight and obesity. Jenny Craig, the personalised programme for weight...

Health campaigners have slammed the decision by sports associations to sign up companies and brands related to junk food as sponsors. Mars Inc yesterday (9 March) announced it had signed a four-year sponsorship...

Restrictions on food television commercials aimed at children may have reduced the number of kids’ TV food ads, but children are still being targeted with cross-promotional tactics and product placement. According...

An internationally recognised plant scientist who helped rescue many Australian farms from the brink of disaster has been awarded the 2010 Grains Research and Development Corporation Western Region Seed...

Sunfield Australia Pty Ltd is conducting a voluntary consumer level recall on the Sunfield Carrot Bar and Sunfield Date Bar 600g, Use by 10/04/2010 and 20/04/2010, due to incorrect ingredients listed on...

Woolworths limited wishes to advise its cutomers that it has initiated a voluntary consumer level recall on Woolworths Label Minced Heart Smart Beef, packed on Sunday 28/02/2010 and use by date 02/03/2010...

As chairman of the CIAA’s Environment Committee, Pascal Gréverath is at the centre of the European food industry’s sustainability effort. He spoke with Ben Cooper of just-food about the newly-created...

Regulations governing food labelling and health claims in the US require more stringent controls, a consumer body insisted yesterday (2 March). According to a new report out from the Centre for Science...

Over the last decade environmental issues have received more and more publicity, and many businesses have found that ‘going green’ is not only good for the environment, but good for the bottom...

Diamond Foods, Inc. announced on Thursday (25 February) that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kettle Foods, makers of premium potato chips, from Lion Capital LLP for US$615 million...