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Now that common sense has been confirmed by a consumer survey that traffic light labelling is confusing and misleading, maybe the Department of Health (DH) should sit up, take stock and review its strategy on healthy eating.
Organizers said nearly 200,000 Japanese consumers joined 53 extra virgin olive oil exhibitors and expert olive oil tasters from ten countries to celebrate extra virgin olive oil quality for the third edition of Olive Japan, sponsored by the Olive Oil Sommelier Association of Japan. Toshiya Tada, founder and chairman of the Olive Oil Sommelier Association…
The election results are in for the new Olive Oil Commission of California’s inaugural board of directors. Commission directors will have the potential to influence the future of olive oil in the state as the group to recommend labelling and grading standards to the California Secretary of Food and Agriculture. The standards they propose will…
Most of us have bought a product by mistake at some point, having mis-read the label: the wrong variant of a pack of biscuits, for example, or conditioner instead of shampoo. I certainly have – more than once. What we’ve done is make an assumption, based on our previous exposure to the labelling of the…
Olive oil imports are down about nine percent on last year in seven major markets outside Europe – a drop of 22,620 tons, according to new figures from the International Olive Council. That means the IOC estimate of a world surplus of 480,000 tons this season – just updated to reflect higher Spanish production –…
There are many many things to love about Lima, Peru; among them, the daily caress of the metropolis’s mild climate, the city’s Viceroyal and Baroque architecture, its mid 20th Century architecture, the fascinating Barranco neighborhood … But, for me, in Lima there is nothing as quietly exhilarating nor as daily calming as its courtly Parque…
An ageing population will contribute to a significant drive in health and wellness food and drink innovation, Campden BRI nutritional specialist Sarah Kuczora has predicted.
Functional foods weathered the global economic recession better than most food categories despite a high product failure rate, according to a US-based branding and market expert.
In a new report, Swedish researchers have suggested what the industry for paper packaging and other pulp-derived products, including bio-based barrier and shaping, might look in 15 years’ time.
At first glance the sprawling campus in the glorious Cotswolds countryside looks an unlikely base from which to wage war against Italy’s most feared crime organisation, the ‘Ndrangheta. And yet the laboratories of Campden BRI, once part of the University of Bristol and now a major research hub, are, in their own quiet way, playing…