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One of the great highlights of Health ingredients Europe is the Hi Awards. This year the standard of entries was exceptional, with the ultimate winners being ingredients at the cutting [...]

Food manufacturers and distributors from around the globe will converge in Bangkok for the annual Food Ingredients Asia. Taking place at Bangkok's Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in Bangkok, from [...]

The knowledge that quality chocolate is good for you is paving the way for new innovations. The results of 2007 European consumer survey by Barry Callebaut predict fast-wing demand for [...]

This was my first IFT Food Expo--the first of many, I hope, as I take over from Hugh Darrington as editor of International Food Ingredients. Many of my observations are [...]

How do we tackle obesity? In New York Michael Bloomberg, the city's mayor, has banned the sale of super-size sugary drinks at stadiums, restaurants and cinemas. It's difficult to see [...]

Governments all around the world want to tackle obesity--not least because the cost to society is huge. Excessive weight in childhood can translate in later life into serious diseases such [...]

January, a notoriously grey month in this hemisphere, has taken on an even darker hue with gloomy news from the food industry. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) announced that it's cutting [...]

Welcome to the biggest ever issue of International Food Ingredients magazine, and the one that celebrates the 25th anniversary of Fi Europe. FiE began as humble show in Utrecht, the [...]

An era of cheap food has come to an end. A combination of factors--rising demand in India and China, a dietary shift away from cereals towards meat and vegetables, the [...]

At the depth of the Great Depression, George Orwell wrote of the English working classes: 'The basis of their diet is white bread and margarine, corned beef, sugared tea and [...]

We've just hosted our second online conference--this one focusing on sustainability. With a day of panel discussions and presentations, we debated why it's so important for nutrition companies to embrace [...]

Everybody's talking about sustainability (even we're organising a sustainability conference to be held online on Friday, 18 March, see p5). As the world's population approaches 7 billion worries deepen about [...]

In this issue of International Food Ingredients, we bring you the best of the news from Hi Europe, this year held in Madrid in November. With more than 500 exhibitors, [...]

Time's arrows have been slung down unexpected paths this year (as Nik Rudge reflects on p128), and much of the emphasis in the ingredients industry is now on cost-cutting. Indeed [...]

Are we getting carried away with our concerns about the economy? I don't think so. These are unpredictable and troubling times but it is worth considering this: the economy may [...]

Isn't all food functional? Strictly speaking yes. An avocado, an egg, an apple--each confers health benefits on the person who eats it. Yet within the confines of the food ingredients [...]

Cadbury appears to have put its financial woes behind it. In February this year the UK-based confectionery group reported an unexpectedly big increase in its 2008 profit margins and stuck [...]

Much to the infuriation of farmers the European parliament has just voted by a sweeping majority to tighten the use of pesticides in agriculture and to ban 22 treatments. Greens [...]

Gut health, brain health, heart health or satiety ingredients that help counter obesity? The ingredients industry offered up treatment for all of these at Hi Europe 2008. In fact clinical [...]

Ralph Appel has a precise, easy manner that exudes confidence. He is, together with dual head Xavier Morenoa, a driving force behind Cargill Texturizing Solutions--the business unit created when Cargill [...]

As you know, some of France's best-known brands are poised to come under US ownership after Kraft confirmed is has provisionally agreed to buy the biscuit arm of Danone for [...]

Public scrutiny of the food industry intensified in the UK this month with the news that food safety experts were advising parents to eliminate a series of additives from children's [...]

A further issue of trust in the industry has been raised by the news that many of the claims made about the specific health benefits of superfoods are misleading to [...]

There's a lot of debate about food advertising and food labelling at the moment. France has just tightened its food and drink advertising rules and in the UK 'junk food' [...]

You only need to take a quick look through this issue to realise the impact that growing consumer concern about health and wellbeing is having on the food ingredients industry: [...]

Having returned from my first Health ingredients Europe, and having run the Hi Daily there, I have completed the first phase at least of my initiation into the food ingredients [...]

As much of this issue is dedicated to Hi Europe, it seems to good time to effect on how the food ingredients industry has responded to public anxiety out the [...]

While we talking success, I'm delighted to tell you that we're extending the hugely successful Food Ingredients event brand into Latin America with the launch of Ingredients in Food Latin [...]

The food ingredients team have just returned from 10 days in Asia running of not one, but two, hugely successful events. Fi Asia, held in Bangkok, attracted an awesome 6,000 [...]

This the beginning of a new phase, both for International Food Ingredients and for me. It's my hope that the IFi team and I will be able to build on [...]

* Since I retired, I have enjoyed reading NCR cover to cover. It is a mixed blessing considering the church news of late. Your letters often speak of the decisions [...]

The article offers information on the issues covered in the Winter 1995 issue of the publication "Arts & The Islamic World" in Great Britain. The contributors of the special issue include Dr. Carol Hotchkiss Malt and Camila Edwards. The first tackles on the contributions of a number of Islamic scholars in North America while the latter presents the results of her recent travels across the U.S. to look at Islamic art holdings in some of the museums not covered in the 1985 supplement and which are incorporated within Asian, Oriental, Decorative or Textile collections.