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La producción de "Pataca de Galicia"de 2007, que se comercializa por primera vez como Indicación Geográfica Protegida (IGP), es de siete millones de kilogramos, totalmente insuficiente para la demanda de este producto, sobre todo en Madrid y ...

The top claims for new Food products in the period July- August 2007 compared to the same period last year:     Claim July-August 2006 July - August 2007 Change Upscale 11.0% 13.5% + 2.5% Natural 8.2% 9.3% + 1.1% Organic 5.5% 7.0% ...

Stve Chandler, Secretary General of the European Snacks association (ESA), writes in his column in The Snacks Magazine on the decision of the Expert Committee on Contaminants on Fumonisin. He is of the opinion that the decision made by the Expert Comm...

Lassonde Industries Inc. (LAS.A-TSX) today announced that its subsidiary A. Lassonde Inc. has completed its purchase of the business of manufacture and distribution of ready-to-drink fruit juices and fruit drinks of McCain Foods (Canada), a division of...

The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board and the Honourable David Emerson, Minister of International Trade today welcomed the conclusion of an arrangement to facilitate bilateral trade i...

Halting the collapse of potato production in the largest spud producing country in the world has led to a prestigious award for Sam Asiedu. This Canadian scientist from Truro was one of 50 scientists from 20 countries to be awarded the Friendship Award...

This paper reports on how the Papa Andina Regional Initiative is promoting the use of collective action to reduce poverty in the Andes, by developing market niches and adding value to potatoes, particularly the native potatoes grown by poor farmers.

Tate &Lyle, a manufacturer of food and industrial ingredients, has reported a 19% fall in profit before tax to GBP120 million for the first six months of 2007, compared with GBP149 million for the same period in 2006.

After years of losses, it seemed Ubiquity subsidiary Jays Foods Inc., was poised to at least break even, and possibly even turn a modest profit. In the first six months of this year, losses were cut 50 percent compared with the losses in the first h...

Dutch French fry manufacturer Farm Frites has won the bronze Pentaward 2007 in the category Foods-savoury snacks for the packaging of the low fat and low calorie fries Nature's Goodness. Other winners are Heinz, Milka and Evian.Pentawards is the first ...

Will Chase, the Herefordshire farmer behind the hugely successful Tyrell’s Crisps brand, has been awarded £5m in interest-free funding by the Bank of Scotland to develop his business further. Mr Chase, who won the Midlands category in the Banks of Sco...

Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. announced a tender offer Wednesday to boost its stake in Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd. in a deal worth up to 30.83 billion yen (US$267.72 million;¤185,38 million).Mitsubishi, which already owns 31 percent of ...