Wal-Mart announced today that it will implement additional beef safety measures designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. The new process controls standards and goals are additions...

While recent years have seen food snobs protest about their usage in modern day recipes, new research from Mintel finds hot canned meat is well and truly back on the menu, as Britain rediscovers the joys...

Australia is one of five more nations to recently sign the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)-brokered treaty that once it enters into force will deny access to fishing ports...

The importer and distributor of a Chinese gingili (sesame) paste that contained undeclared peanuts have been fined $2,640 and $6,600 respectively after it was found they had falsely labelled the food,...

* New multi-million pound technology will help speed up shopping, saving customers nearly 500,000 hours each year * Self check-outs to be rolled out to all stores to increase customer choice of check-out *...

US baby food group Mead Johnson said today that “strong contributions” from emerging markets boosted its first-quarter profits.The company booked net earnings of US$127.5m for the three months...

Kellogg struck a cautious note yesterday (29 April) as it posted a bumper 30% jump in first quarter profits.The US cereal giant booked first-quarter net income of US$418m, or $1.09 a share, up from $321m,...

New research from the Center for Human Nutrition at UCLA suggests that chillis may help burn calories. The ingredient in chillis which gives the spicy taste – capsaicin – also causes an increase...

National Foods announced yesterday that it will be closing down its plant in the Ipswich suburb of Booval in favour of an expanded site at Crestmead. The company is planning to invest $55 million in the...

NutrientWater has released Australia’s first stevia-sweetened beverage, NutrientWaterX, in two flavours. The beverage, available in ‘A-Game’ (strawberry guava) and ‘Refocus’...