Corn Products International shareholders voted to change the company’s name to Ingredion to better showcase its role as a leading global ingredients solutions company serving the food, beverage and brewing industries worldwide. ...More
BASF announced the acquisition of Equateq Ltd., a global leader in the manufacturing of highly concentrated omega-3 fatty acids, for an undisclosed amount. The transaction strengthens BASF’s position as leading supplier of ingredients for the nutrition and health ...More
PepsiCo is recalling Tropicana Kids Orange Juice Drink multi-packs in the United Kingdom because they contain only microbiological-contamination water instead of orange juice blend, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced May 2. ...More
Coca-Cola has temporarily halted production at a bottling plant in China’s Shanxi Province after the company admitted nine batches of its products were contaminated by chlorine in February during a routine maintenance procedure. ...More
MicroThermics has named E2PS as its full-service distributor of small-scale ultra-high temperature processing (UHT), high-temperature short time (HTST), aseptic and bio-pharm processing equipment to the food and beverage industries for Brazil. ...More
A New South Wales Supreme Court justice today ordered KFC to pay $8 million in damages to a 14-year-old girl who was left severely brain damaged from Salmonella poisoning after she consumed a KFC chicken twister in 2005. ...More
Consumers should brace for higher grocery bills because after four months of consecutive price declines, global food prices are on the rise again threatening the food security of millions of people, according to the most recent World Bank Food Price Watch report. Higher oil ...More
Just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected a petition to ban the much-debated chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food and beverage packaging, the government of Sweden banned the use of (BPA) in packaging for food intended for children under the age ...More
All six of D.D. Williamson’s caramel color production facilities achieved “A" ratings from the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), considered to be the “gold standard" for international food safety. ...More
U.S. culinary culture is hungry for more Latin American sandwiches like Brazil’s Bauru, the Puerto Rican–inspired jibarito, and Mexico’s cemita poblana and myriad torta iterations. ...More
SupplySide
