A research team from Princeton University has found that rats who consume high-fructose corn syrup (HCFS), the US’s most common sweetener, gain significantly more weight than rats who consume normal...

PepsiCo yesterday (22 March) set out its plans to reduce the amount of salt, saturated fat and added sugar in its products. The US food giant, which owns brands including Lay’s crisps and Quaker...

Researchers from the University of Buffalo in the US have published a study suggesting that increasing the prices of unhealthy foods could do more to prevent obesity than subsidising healthy foods. In...

Police arrested Bill Harvey, Woolworths’ buyer for coffee, tea and sugar, on Friday as part of an investigation into a national kickback scheme involving coffee and tea suppliers.  The executive...

Australian representatives will today meet with World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva to protest over-quota sugar exports by the European Union, which they maintain are in breach of WTO agreements. Along...

Australian sugar prices have recently reached levels not seen for 30 years, driven by high demand from India and poor harvest progress in Brazil. According to a prediction in the latest NAB Rural Communities...

Coca-Cola Amatil has hiked the price of their soft drinks by five per cent in an endeavour to protect margins in the face of soaring costs of key inputs like sugar, according to the Australian Financial...

The Federal Court of Australia has today blocked the demerger of the building materials and sugar group CSR. CSR had been hoping the Court would approve their plans for a shareholder vote on a separation...

CSR Limited has agreed with ASIC that the first court hearing relating to the proposed demerger of their Sugar and Renewable Energy business will now be held on the 29th January 2010 – the third...

Bright Food Group is looking to engage the CSR Board in discussions this week about their non-binding takeover offer. Shanghai-based Bright made public a $1.5 billion offer for the sugar business of CSR...