For photos and a list of other implicated products, use links in story. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Myanmar is a country ineligible to export
HUL recently announced its Q2FY2024 financial results, reporting 4% underlying volume growth year-on-year to a turnover of INR151.6bn (US$1.8bn), and 3% net year-on-year net profit growth to INR25.4bn (US$302.7mn).The firm’s HFD portfolio mainly comprises its Horlicks and Boost nutritional drink brands, and has been a major focus of investment for HUL over the past several
Humanity’s negative environmental impact is vast and often irreversible. But when it comes to food waste, particularly from households, the issue can be easily resolved. This is especially true of fruits and vegetables, which are the most discarded food products.The world binned 1.05bn tonnes of food in 2022, according to the UNEP Food Waste Index
But enhancing probiotic survival and abundance is a key challenge for food manufacturers to solve, as these beneficial microorganisms are sensitive to heat and acidity. While methods such as microencapsulation can address perishability issues, enhancing probiotic populations in the gut is more complicated.Honey – a common food pairing for yogurt – may be a natural
A public consultation has been opened in Singapore on a draft of the Food Safety and Security Bill. The Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) and Singapore Food Agency (SFA) will introduce the bill. It will consolidate food-related legislation from eight existing acts and introduce new powers to strengthen food safety. Various provisions are open
When you release a new product, you want it to be as eye-catching as possible. What can be more eye-catching than a well-known film character? Many food and beverage companies, from McDonalds to Kellogg’s, have run film tie-ins over the years, often aimed at children. It’s clear what the benefit is for the film producers, who
Taste remains one of the biggest barriers to ensuring consumers worldwide remain loyal to the meat-alternative category, experts have made clear. Not only that, genuine meat taste and mouthfeel are essential to bagging hardcore meat eaters, Plant Futures founder Indy Kaur told FoodNavigator this week.Over half (51%) of consumers who tried plant-based meat would not
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a stern warning to Austrofoods, the Ecuador-based manufacturer of apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches recalled last year after being found to contain dangerously high levels of lead and chromium. The Aug. 9, 2024, warning letter just released by the FDA is part of the agency’s ongoing efforts
Police in New Zealand are investigating how drugs in sweet wrappers were donated to a food bank. Earlier this week, the Auckland City Mission discovered that an unknown person donated some lollies containing methamphetamine that were included in food parcels. The Rinda brand pineapple lollies were in a sealed retail-sized package. The charity only accepts
The Food and Drug Administration has completed a second round of peer-reviewed testing, finding that milk and other dairy products that undergo pasteurization are safe for human consumption because the H5N1 avian virus is killed. While pasteurization is effective in making milk and milk products safe from the virus, raw milk remains a risk for