Cheese Sales are Strong Even with Higher Prices
Thursday, March 11, 2010 (7 reads)
A Packaged Facts report finds strong sales of specialty and natural cheeses, unhampered by rising prices. The publisher said Americans like exploring new varieties of cheese, and predicts the trend will increase as the economy improves.
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Milk Protein Complexes May Hold Key to WOW Emulsions
Thursday, March 11, 2010 (18 reads)
Using conjugates of caseinates from milk and maltodextrin may improve the stability of double emulsions, and lead to a wider acceptance of the technology in a range of food applications. Irish researchers report that the formulating water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) emulsions with the maltodextrin–sodium caseinate complex produced more stable emulsions than when sodium caseinate was used alone, according to findings published in Food Research International.
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Nestle Doubles Capacity of Indonesian Milk-Processing Plant
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (18 reads)
Nestle has spent $100m doubling the capacity of a milk-processing plant on the island of East Java in Indonesia. The Kejayan factory is now one of the ten biggest Nestle milk-processing facilities worldwide with a capacity that has grown from 620,000 liters a day to over one million liters.
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Industry Welcomes FDA Claims Crackdown
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 (34 reads)
By issuing warning letters to 17 companies including Nestle and Pom Wonderful, the Food and Drug Administration demonstrated it had both the motivation and the muscle to remove misleading nutrition and health claims from the market, a move industry has welcomed.
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Tetra Pak Banks on Emerging Markets for Growth
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 (31 reads)
Tetra Pak said stronger sales in the final quarter of 2009 and emerging markets offset declining demand in Eastern Europe and Central Asia as it posted an increase in net sales of 1.2 percent for the year to almost €9bn.
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