Noticias

FMC Technologies, Inc., Houston, announced in October the intended spin-off of its FMC FoodTech and FMC Airport Systems divisions into a separate, independent and publicly traded company. The separation will be completed in mid-2008. Charlie Cannon, ...

Corazonas Foods Inc., creators of great-tasting, heart-healthy snack foods, transforms the all-American classic potato chip into a heart-healthy culinary delight with the launch of Corazonas Heart-Healthy Potato Chips. Patented technology infusing pla...

Calgary may be making history this week as the first Canadian city to ban trans fats in restaurants, but that doesn't mean eating out will soon become much healthier. Some nutrition experts are concerned the massive push to eliminate trans fats in Ca...

Farmers' hopes to recover flood losses by cultivating potato may be shattered as vast areas of potato fields in Nilphamari are attacked with 'early blight' and 'late blight' diseases due to dense fog and chilly cold.With expectations of good prices fro...

Tate &Lyle has completed its sale of its Mexican sugar business, removing itself from volatile commodity markets and allowing it to refocus on value-added ingredients.The ingredients giant announced the move in October and has since received cleara...

Cargill%20Inc. is turning its attention to ground beef for its next national branding effort. Cargill earlier this year introduced Meadowlands Farms ground beef -- its first effort in branding a product that had always been considered a commodity -- an...

With Americans working and partying later than ever, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are responding to the midnight munchies with extended hours, and in some cases, throwing away the "closed"sign altogether.Taco Bell, Wendy's and Burger King...

Despite last year being the worst for blight in the UK in 50 years, fewer than 30% of Soil Association organic farmers resorted to the use of copper. Two-thirds managed through the use of blight resistant varieties [1], crop rotations [2] and burning o...

Any political party can envy the popularity rating of potato among Ukrainian residents. In the International Year of the Potato, declared by the United Nations in 2008, Ukraine has a record high potato crop, about 20 million tons. “In Europe only Russ...

The UK is the country most attached to fast food, closely followed by the United States, a survey has suggested.A poll of 9,000 people in 13 nations, alongside a BBC investigation into global obesity, found vast variations in attitudes towards food and...

Britain introduced a ban on advertising junk food to under-16s Tuesday, aimed at promoting healthy eating and countering growing child obesity. The ban, which extends measures already in place for under-10s, will curb television adverts for food and ...

With new arrivals at mandis across the country, the potato prices have hit the rock bottom during the past one month.According to traders, wholesale prices of potato came down by an average 40-50 per cent in various mandis over the last one month.At Fa...

In the New Year, expect to see a flood of new food products boasting their ailment-specific benefits — everything from fighting colds to cancer, from easing arthritis to wrinkles. But the predicted growth of "value-added"foods is just part ...

Malaysia's crude palm oil (CPO) production rose 4.4 percent to 1.6 MMT in November. The increase in palm oil production and decline in palm oil exports more than offset the increase in domestic disappearance, resulting in an increase in carryout stocks...

Lifestyle and demographic changes have fueled growth in the ready-to-eat and snack distribution outlets representing over 45,000 points of sale in France, with 2006 sales growth over five percent. Best prospects are chips and crisps, snack foods, bagel...

The latest buzz phrase is “food print”, the amount of land needed to supply one person’s nutritional needs for a year. With the world population growing by an estimated half a billion every decade, and a concomitant loss of agricultural land to housing...

A Lehman Brothers analyst said Monday Wendy's International Inc., the nation's No. 3 hamburger chain, is struggling to turn its business around, despite a consumer environment that should help fast food restaurants garner more customers. Analyst Jeffr...

The Wisbech standard reports that Lamb Weston Meijer, the Dutch potato processing company co-owned by United States-headquartered ConAgra Foods/Lamb Weston and Meijer Beheer B.V. of the Netherlands, is planning a new facility in Wisbech, United Kingdo...