The issue of nutrition labelling reared its head last week after the EU’s politicians voted for the food on sale in the region to carry guideline daily amounts and not traffic lights. It’s...

Heinz is to enter the soy sauce business in China through the acquisition of local firm Foodstar from private-equity fund Transpac Industrial Holdings as part of a plan to make up 25% of sales in emerging...

Palm oil firm Golden Agri-Resources has struck a deal to buy Chinese noodle maker Florentina International Holdings (FIH) for CNY976m (US$142.8m).FIH, the food arm of Asia Food & Properties Limited...

Nestlé is to launch a floating supermarket on the Brazilian Amazon to extend its reach into some of the least commercially-developed parts of the world. Named Nestlé Até Você a Bordo – or Nestlé...

Sainsbury’s has signed a marketing deal with Microsoft’s MSN UK brand to create a food and drinks channel on the portal. Sainsbury’s Food and Drink, which will publish food ideas and...

A press release sent out by news service PR Newswire, claiming that food company General Mills was under investigation by the US Government, has turned out to be a hoax. The release, which went out on...

A US researcher has linked a preference for salty foods to a heightened sense of taste, in a study at the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. The study asked 87 participants to rate the taste...

New Zealand meat processor Silver Fern Farms has announced plans to close its Canterbury lamb-cutting plant and restructure operations at its Belfast facility. The moves, which could affect up to 174 jobs,...

Compulsory country-of-origin food labelling could become mandatory for all meat, poultry, dairy products and other single-ingredient products sold in the EU after it was accepted by the European Parliament...

Nestlé has announced plans to sue Sara Lee over alleged patent infringements of the Nespresso design by the new L’OR Espresso product. The Nespresso individual-pod coffee system, where a single...