Additives

• Food manufacturers rush to create "Natural" recipes

  

  With their soft, mashed potato insides and crispy exteriors stamped in the shape of a happy face, McCain Foods’ frozen Smiles are marketed as a fun-to-eat children’s snack. They’re not supposed to explode.   And yet, that’s what happened inside the Canadian...»

  Canada

  May 10, 2012

  In this Item:
  McCain Foods Limited, Burger King

• Natural color solutions for snack foods: visit Chr. Hansen at SNAXPO

  

  Chr. Hansen invites snack professionals attending the SNAXPO trade show in Phoenix, Arizona, US March 17-19, 2012 to visit their booth to see its full range of natural colors for snack foods and to discuss the opportunities in natural colors...»

  United States

  March 12, 2012

• Pepsi, Coca-Cola change caramel colouring affected by Proposition 65

  Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing how they make an ingredient in their drinks to avoid being legally obliged to put a cancer warning label on the bottle. The new recipe for caramel colouring in the drinks has less 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI) -...»

  United States

  March 12, 2012

• Phosphate in food is ‘health risk’ that should be labelled, claim researchers

  Food products with high phosphate contents are damaging to the health of the general public, and as such should be labelled, say researchers behind a new study. The report – published in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International – selectively reviewed research documenting the...»

  Germany

  March 01, 2012

• McCain Foods brings "It's All Good" Campaign to Australia and New Zealand

  

  McCain Foods Australia and New Zealand has announced a new “overarching global company philosophy”, pledging to “spread the goodness” with reformulation of products to eliminate additives or preservatives, emphasise its School Veggie Patches campaigns and highlight the benefits of fresh-frozen foods, and increase product transparency, which it says is “sure to further strengthen McCain Foods reputation in Australia and New Zealand.” »

  Australia

  May 18, 2011

  In this Item:
  McCain Foods Limited

• Top 10 claims on new product introductions in Europe

  

  Between January 2008 and June 2009, Mintel (Global New Products Database) tracked a total of 88,364 new food and beverage product launches throughout Europe. The most frequent claims made on these are (in descending order):»

  European Union

  July 28, 2009

• Update on EFSA’s evaluation of the safety of food flavouring substances

  

  The EFSA Panel on additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact with food (AFC) is working on a systematic evaluation of the safety of flavouring substances currently in use in the European Union (EU). A programme for their evaluation...»

  European Union

  January 31, 2008

• P&G says Pringles not made with banned additive

  Pringles potato chips are not made with an additive banned in China, Procter & Gamble Co, which markets the potato chips, said on Friday. China state media had reported on Friday that a batch of chips had been blocked from import. The...»

  China

  December 07, 2007

  In this Item:
  Procter and gamble

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