Milk is mined in bid to boost healthy ageing

09-Feb-2012 - Weight management and healthy ageing products could be among the fruits of Food for Health Ireland's (FHI's) continuing milk mining project, which was launched more than two years ago.

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Firms fail to realise potential of senior market

09-Feb-2012 - Senior consumers offer massive market potential for ingredients suppliers and food processors that few firms have so far successfully realised, according to Aine Hallihan, Carbery head of research and development.

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Natures Way opens new £15M West Sussex factory

08-Feb-2012 - Salad and lettuce manufacturer Natures Way Foods (NWF) has announced the opening of a new £15M factory at Chichester Food Park in West Sussex.

Asia-Pacific drives big growth in GOS prebiotics

06-Feb-2012 - Rapid growth in prebiotic galactooligosaccharides (GOS) has been driven by the expanding middle class in the Asia-Pacific region, according to Sarah Staley, vice president, business development at Friesland Campina

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Morrisons to create 400 jobs at Bridgwater site

02-Feb-2012 - Supermarket chain Morrisons is set to create 400 jobs at its Bridgwater manufacturing site as the firm seeks to combine its packaging and distribution operations.

Potential lifeline for probiotic yogurt claims

02-Feb-2012 - Loopholes in the law may save probiotic yogurt manufacturers from having to remove products from sale when the new EU nutrition and health claims legislation comes into effect.

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Strong growth forecast for pre and probiotic yogurts

01-Feb-2012 - UK sales of pre and probiotic yogurts are expected to show strong growth with spending predicted to reach £15.78 per head by 2016.

Chitin gluten-free fibre ingredient approved in Taiwan

30-Jan-2012 - Stratum Nutrition has announced that the Taiwanese Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the chitin-glucan fibre from Aspergillus niger, branded Artinia, as a food ingredient that can be used without any restriction.

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Turning the tide of obesity

30-Jan-2012 - Professor Judy Buttriss knew very early in her career that nutrition was where her heart lay. But these days, as director general of the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), it's not just nutrition research that puts demands on her time. She has to juggle the competing duties of running an organisation dedicated to disseminating sound nutritional information to a world awash with uninformed comment and fad diets much of it emanating from self-appointed celebrity 'experts' and tabloids in search of sensationalist headlines.

Food firms back new £5bn public health plan

23-Jan-2012 - Food manufacturers have welcomed the government’s plans to hand local authorities new responsibility for public health, which will see more than £5bn handed out to curb issues such as obesity and binge drinking.

Supermarkets blamed for organic market slump

16-Jan-2012 - The decision by UK supermarkets to cut shelf-space for less profitable products has hit sales in the organic food market, according to industry representatives.

Government has to act to boost nation's health

06-Jan-2012 - The government must adopt a more unified policy framework to improve the health of the nation and curb the growth in obesity, food policy experts have urged.

Break health claims law 'at your peril'

04-Jan-2012 - Manufacturers must review any health claims they make – on TV, in products, print advertising, and online – over the coming eight months or risk falling foul of new EU legislation, experts have warned.

Consumers’ diet food confusion is a big opportunity

04-Jan-2012 - Consumers’ confusion over how to lose weight is a big opportunity for diet manufacturers, says research group Mintel.

Top 10 nutrition trends include ‘naturality’, energy and joints

04-Jan-2012 - ‘Naturality’, energy and muscle, bone and joint health will be among the top 10 food, nutrition and health trends for 2012, according to a report just published by New Nutrition Business.

Partners in diet products prepare to launch

01-Jan-2012 - Danish bioscience company Chr Hansen has entered into a five-year partnership with Japanese biotechnology firm Amino Up Chemical Co. The agreement is part of a bid to develop dietary supplements and use the firms' nutritional ingredient portfolios to explore opportunities within functional foods.

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Enemy of the obese state

01-Jan-2012 - Shadow minister for public health Diane Abbott is no friend of the food industry or the coalition government's health policy. Reports Rick Pendrous

Planning law 'must stem fast food tide'

01-Jan-2012 - Shadow minister for public health Diane Abbott has called for tougher local planning controls to restrict the proliferation of fast food outlets in poor inner city areas. She says the outlets are feeding the obesity epidemic afflicting the nation.

Food guru slams government’s food policy

14-Dec-2011 - UK food policy has taken a backward step under the coalition government, according to Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, London.

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Lobbyists, start your engines: Can a new health claims formula be won in the European Parliament?

12-Dec-2011 - Five years ago the European Union nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR) became law. Around the bloc, hopeful EU healthy foods and supplements stakeholders submitted more than 44,000 health claim applications.

Hunter-gatherer diet can cut obesity and aid food security

05-Dec-2011 - Reverting to the 'snacking habits' of our hunter-gatherer ancestors will help reverse the obesity epidemic facing the developed world and address food security issues, new research has revealed.

Reduced sugar claims can mislead consumers

05-Dec-2011 - New research has revealed that British consumers feel misled by the claim ‘reduced sugar’ .

Step up to cater for our ageing population

05-Dec-2011 - Manufacturers are missing out on the commercial opportunities presented by an ageing population by not providing foods targeted at the dietary needs of the elderly, according to experts in the field.

'First' for gluten-free tortellini

05-Dec-2011 - Sainsbury is continuing to expand its free-from frozen offering with the launch of what it says is the first gluten- and wheat-free tortellini ready meal from DS-gluten free.