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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An effective tool for consumer information, or a flawed system that unfairly demonises foods? The Food Standard's Agency's traffic light labelling system has polarised opinion since the UK [...]

Missing the LINK? The philosophy behind the LINK initiative is to bring together academia and industry in collaborative research work at a pre-competitive stage. And by doing this, to target [...]

Majority of people in survey are concerned about what's being put into food More than half of British consumers are 'concerned' at the number of ingredients in processed foods, an [...]

Board does not indicate it thinks the current safety assessment system for GM and novel food is flawed The Food Standards Agency is assessing the feasibility of establishing a review [...]

* Prince Charles made tabloid headlines this week with his angry attack on genetically modified foods. Are they on the way out for good? Or could they have a future [...]

Plant sterols and stanols, which are found in some functional foods as cholesterol-lowering ingredients, can be effective if eaten in the correct quantities, according to the UK's Institute of Food [...]

The Welsh food technology centres hold the key to a brave new world of agri-food production with expertise drawn from a wide range of disciplines Three food technology support centres [...]

The Food Chain Group of the government's Foresight initiative (described last month) is stimulating industrial developments which can only benefit the competitiveness of individual food manufacturing companies. Eric Russell reports [...]

In April 1994, the UK government decided that industries in the UK should plan over a longer time scale than was current practice. It said that, as industry had much [...]

Marketeers once gave Efficient Consumer Response the cold shoulder. But now there is a growing impetus to channel the discipline into creative strategies to generate consumer demand Efficient Consumer Response [...]

Supplier profit margins are in pretty rode health according to new research for The Grocer by OC&C Strategy Consultants. Our annual index of the UK's top 150 food and drink [...]

Supermarkets and convenience stores are failing to exploit the full potential of the 3.7bn [pounds sterling] local and regional food market, according to research unveiled at the International Food and [...]

European food cultures may vary wildly as you move around the EU, but consumers in its three largest economies are suprisingly as one when it comes to the key issue [...]

Food researchers are bidding to come up with chocolate and ice cream that is sugar-free, possibly by the end of the year. If successful, the 'holy grails' of food science [...]

Time was when, to most consumers, supermarket own label conjured up the image of plastic bags of muesli stamped with large black letters, cheap jam with even cheaper plain white [...]

* A new food revolution is sweeping supermarket shelves. Functionality is the name of the game, and Scottish producers believe they are going to be major players--thanks, in part, to [...]

People have treated biotechnology with suspicion ever since Dr Frankenstein made his monster. The food manufacturing industry is trying to redress the balance and put it to good use. Lewis [...]

Organic growing charity Garden Organic is undertaking new research it hopes will produce accurate figures on the value of fruit and vegetables grown domestically in the UK. The charity hopes [...]

Researchers at the University of Southampton have teamed up with VRacress Salads to trial the health benefits of eating supermarket bagged lettuce. Previous studies have examined [...]

Visitors to Food & Drink Expo will be among the first to discover many new brands. This year the emphasis is on unusual, healthy, organic and additive-free versions of traditional [...]

So E-numbers are bad for you? It's now time for the research to move on Casting aside the fact that The Grocer broke the story five months ago, this week's [...]

Omega-3 seems to be this year's wonder food. Advocates claim the essential fatty acid, primarily found in oily fish and seeds, has all sorts of health benefits from improving cardiovascular [...]

Innovation is central to much of the prepared foods that are currently being manufactured in Ireland and suppliers recognise that, if they are to succeed beyond the Irish market and [...]

If M&A activity continues at anything near the frenetic rate of last year, we could be in for a busy year. In 2005, buyers helped themselves to the most acquisitions [...]

Two of the Irish Republic's leading food companies, Dairygold and Glanbia, have announced major research and development programmes aimed at producing new value-added products with additional health benefits. Dairygold, the [...]

Plant science consultancy NIAB said it would be expanding the scope of its organic crop trials as a result of growing consumer demand for organic food. The company will, for [...]

The Food Chain Centre has been awarded 500,000 [pounds sterling] by Defra to fund four fresh produce value chain studies in England, initially covering vegetables, salads and potatoes. The aim [...]

A research centre that offers scientific resources for product development to food manufacturers has been launched at Leeds University. The Food Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration has been set up [...]

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is consulting the fish farming industry and other interested parties about research priorities. A report will deal with scientific and technical issues relating to the [...]

* A group of suppliers is funding a research programme designed to reduce the amount of salt in their products. * Heinz, Walkers and Unilever Bestfoods are among household names [...]

A group of big-hitting suppliers has signed up to an ambitious private research programme to reduce salt in a list of top-selling products. Aiming to have made a major breakthrough [...]

Tesco moves up the chart for the second consecutive week to secure the number one position just ahead of Asda which has leapt up the chart by three places. While [...]

COLIN GUTTERIDGE, MD, RSSL, PROVIDER OF SCIENCE OUTSOURCING TO FMCG SECTOR Amid the media feeding frenzy that accompanies takeover talk such as Morrisons and Safeway, one can almost be persuaded [...]

New research to help combat the growing problem of obesity is to be funded through the creation of the Applied Research Forum for Farming and Food, it was announced last [...]

DEFRA is researching the size of the regional food and drink market in England to provide baseline figures for the development of its regional food strategy. Simon Johnson, regional and [...]

The release in the autumn of a study of the views of 46 senior marketing directors in the food and drink industry will yet again raise the issue of local [...]

The lunchbox market is worth an estimated 3.1bn [pounds sterling] as 31 million people carry food out of home every year--representing a total of 4.2 billion lunchboxes. Among adults, men [...]

Opinion among manufacturers has swung significantly against the euro in the run-up to the government's decision next week on whether the time is right to hold the promised referendum. In [...]

Familiarity with a brand is one of the main influences on shoppers making a food purchase, according to research from IGD. Fifteen per cent of consumers put it at the [...]

We are committed to supporting a food industry in which innovation thrives. The market is tough out there and research collaboration is the order of the day. These were the [...]

Research has revealed that sales of meat products from chilled cabinets can be boosted significantly by improved display. The research, which was commissioned by Pork Farms Bowyers, sausage, pie and pastry maker, and carried out by Retail Marketing In-store Services, was aimed to help independents improve sales of chilled products such as sausages, pies and bacon., IMPROVED display can raise significantly grocers' sales of meat products from the chilled cabinet. Hard evidence of this is provided in a pilot survey just completed by the Wiltshire sausage, [...]

R & D: Hercules to spend 13M [Pounds] Hercules Inc has announced plans to build a new 13M [Pounds] research centre in Europe. The facility, to be the centre of [...]