Food Industry

Img source: petproductnews.com The pet food industry continues to grow at an accelerated rate because pet owners love their pets. They want to feed their precious pets decadent treats to show their love and appreciation for them.  As a result of this trend, the demand for high quality and nutritious…

How many people's eating experience is being diminished as a consequence of long COVID? No one really knows. We do know that many of those infected report loss of smell and taste – called anosmia – as a symptom (it is believed that 75-95% of what we taste is actually…

As parts of the country continue to be devastated by what some regions describe as the worst drought in nearly 20 years, a new report is pointing to the record-breaking temperatures as having an incredibly harsh impact on crop outputs across farms in Western Canada. A new report from Statistics…

It is estimated that arable farming produces around 8 billion tonnes of carbohydrate waste every year in the form of discarded stalks, leaves and roots of crops such as maize, wheat, rice, and sugarcane. This agro-waste is normally discarded or burned. Food companies hope to develop ways of converting the into…

Green Boy Group announced today that it is launching Plant-Dairy Protein™, a new functional plant-based protein developed for the plant-based dairy industry. "After our introduction of Plant-Meat Protein™ in the US and EU last summer, and the tremendous market interest that followed, we were approached by a lot of plant-based…

The Milwakee-based Food Industry Council, LLC has launched its “FIC Recall Reporter.™”   The new, free business tool is a searchable database of all FDA and USDA published Class I, Class II, and Class III food and beverage recalls since 2000. The Food Industry Council says its FIC Recall Reporter…

It’s about time America became disenchanted with foodies. Pig, Michael Sarnoski’s foodie noir about loss, love, and labor in Portland, Oregon’s restaurant scene, doesn’t leave them much room for redemption. It tells a story that starts with the titular pig who is, however, virtually absent from the film. It is…

Today, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, together with participating provinces and territories, announced a total investment of $8.5 million for eight not-for-profit fish and seafood industry associations. The non-repayable CFSOF contributions will fund essential market research, consumer research and domestic and international…

In the report​​ Spruce alleges that Oatly omitted and manipulated facts in its prospectus​​ and in an investor presentation last month​​ and “will never achieve profitability​." It added: “W​hile investors are enamored with its sales growth in the plant-based food fad, and its commitment to ESG practices, we believe they should be focused on…

The term ‘COVID-washing’ was coined by researchers from the University of Auckland via a research paper published on the subject earlier this year, which accused food and beverage firms of ‘misappropriating the COVID-19 pandemic promote their unhealthy products to vulnerable populations during a time of increased stress and hardship’​ –…