Read more on the five top industry trends, emerging categories and regulations going into 2024, cultivated meat concerns, Nestle Vietnam’s new Nescafe concentrate and much more in our 10 most-read APAC F&B stories for January 2024.Click through the gallery to see them all.

Plant-based players have highlighted consumer acceptance and pricing challenges as major hurdles to overcome in the past year.This has led many to speculate whether the plant-based sector is ‘over’, especially with big players in the United States such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods facing multiple operational and management challenges in recent times.However, food industry

The chief executive officer of a Norwegian company linked to a Listeria outbreak has insisted it takes comprehensive action to tackle the pathogen. Comments from Henning Beltestad, CEO of Lerøy Seafood Group, come after scrutiny of the Lerøy Midt slaughterhouse and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s (Mattilsynet) follow-up on Listeria control. Citing a notification to

There is a wide range of reasons why it is important to be able to assess the quality of food products. You might need to know their composition, including levels of nutrients or sugars. You might need to check for potentially harmful substances, such as microplastics. You might simply want to know whether they have

A study by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that eating foods such as navy beans, which are rich in gut-supporting nutrients, fibre and amino acids, enhances the diversity of the gut microbiome and could help to prevent and treat colorectal cancer.How was the study conducted?​Funded by the American Cancer Society

Madrid-based Eatable Adventures – one of the top three food-tech accelerators in the world, has just closed 50% of its €30 million investment vehicle Europe Foodtech Acceleration Fund I SCSp. The new investment vehicle focusses on technology-based seed projects in the agri-food sector, encompassing the Spain Foodtech and FoodSeed acceleration programmes in Italy, with a third programme

Various South East Asian markets from Vietnam to the Philippines have been in the headlines over the past year for making upgrades to policies and guidelines to improve on-pack nutritional labels for foods and beverages.Thailand is the most recent to have joined this list, having gazetted a slew of regulatory decrees in January 2024 governing

This was the key message from a webinar hosted by the data and insights provider Nutrition Integrated earlier this week.“Proactive nutrition has never been so competitive,” said Nick Morgan, founder of Nutrition Integrated. “There has been lots of new launches, categories are evolving, and brands are democratising what they are to achieve to break down barriers

Several European-funded food safety projects have officially started. The Food Safety for Africa (FS4Africa) project is designed to address traceability, authenticity, and food safety issues in the continent. Challenges aiming to be tackled include mycotoxin contamination in multiple food crops, pesticide residues in grains and vegetables, microbial contamination, particularly E. coli, and food adulteration. The

Macgregors Meat and Seafood Ltd, in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada, is recalling approximately 2,745 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat pork products that were not presented for import reinspection into the United States, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The following products are subject to the recall: 1.5-lb. cartons containing “44TH Street Slow Cooked BABY