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Local diets will be nearly trans fat-free by July 2009, the Calgary Health Region confirmed yesterday. The region's board unanimously endorsed a plan that, according to its medical officer of health, Dr. Brent Friesen, will put the city in the natio...

Belgische gevangenen zijn in opstand gekomen omdat de frituurpan kapot was. Ze kregen geen patat te eten en dat pikten de gedetineerden niet. Uit protest weigerden 67 gevangenen om na een wandeling terug te gaan naar hun cel. Toen een grote politiemac...

Un estudio importante halla que el compuesto que se encuentra en alimentos fritos y horneados no representa una amenaza. Al parecer existe poca o ninguna relación entre el cáncer de mama y la acrilamida, una sustancia que se encuentra en alimentos fr...

Glastuinderij Grutakker uit Hedel en projectontwikkelaar Berlaere uit Best verzetten zich bij de Raad van State in Den Haag tegen de uitbreidingingsplannen van aardappelverwerker Quik meldt het Brabants Dagblad. Quik kreeg van de gemeente Maasdriel ee...

Key Technology announces the appointment of Richard Hebel as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this new position, Hebel is responsible for identifying and commercializing advanced new technologies that will expand Key’s range of customer product solut...

Vegetable producer Stranda Baltic has launched its new fresh vegetables production unit in Salas parish in Latvia at a cost of EUR 2 mln. The main product of Norwegian-owned Stranda Baltic SIA is small snack carrots, which are packed in mini plastics b...

Indian giant ITC has announced that it aims to treble the turnover of its packaged food operations and to become the overall leader of the Indian packaged food sector by 2011.The cigarette giant’s food units are growing at a rate of 68.17% annually.Exa...

States from Connecticut to California have looked this year to mimic the success of large cities like New York in banning artery-clogging trans fats from restaurants. But in the 14 states that have so far proposed a ban or restriction, not a single b...

De provincie heeft via de officier van justitie Aviko afgelopen week een dwangsom opgelegd om te voorkomen dat er verontreinigd afval over het akkerland aan de Rozenstraat in Baak wordt uitgereden. Sinds begin jaren negentig brengt de Aviko zand (dat r...

tThe times keep changing. Though the "I'm Lovin' It"tag is still there in all McDonald's advertising, there's a growing feeling the powers-that-be within the burger behemoth might be ready to turn back the clock -- just a bit -- and rediscov...

Food and beverage processors will be fighting it out for an increasingly dwindling supply of grains sourced at ever higher prices, ING Group warned in a new forecast report for the sector.ING's financial analysts predict that agricultural prices will i...

De week van de friet is van start gegaan. Tijdens deze week wordt onze nationale trots, die al sinds 1680 bestaat, extra in de kijker gezet. Het gouden aardappelstaafje heeft in al die tijd nog niets van zijn populariteit verloren. Want de frituur is ...

The Board of Directors of AVEBE U.A. is pleased to announce that Mr. J.L. de Rooij has been appointed Agro Director, succeeding Addy Risseeuw. He will be joining the company on February 1st, 2008. Mr. De Rooij (40) graduated from Professional Agricult...

At first sight, nothing betrays the strange happenings at the Restaurant of the Future, a spacious, bright university canteen where scientists and students stop in for food and lunchtime chatter. The chef, Jan Kiewied, is stir-frying peppers at a glo...

Acrylamide formation in heated food became a totally new research field, when its presence in various foods was revealed in 2002. The EU Commission reacted swiftly and in DG Research Framework Programme 6 (FP6) a strategic targeted research project, ...

De gevolgen van een volledige ontkoppeling van de Europese premie voor zetmeelaardappelen en van de afbouw van het EU-zetmeelbeleid voor de betreffende sector in Nederland kunnen, afhankelijk van de omstandigheden en de reacties van de telers, uiteenlo...

Residents are attempting to block plans by crisps producer Tyrrells to turn its Herefordshire farm into a vodka distillery. The company hopes to use a £5 million regional prize it won in the Bank of Scotland’s Corporate £25 million Challenge to use p...

Increased dietary intakes of acrylamide could raise the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer by 29 and 78 per cent, respectively, says a new study.Over 62,000 women in the Netherlands, aged between 55 and 69, took part in the research that is one of...