A News Feed of Articles from Food & Beveragehttp://www.foodbev.com/RSS.ashx(c) 2008, FoodBev.com, All rights reserved.5Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:51:01 GMTBritain’s most efficient and environmentally advanced fresh milk dairy has been formally opened by Lord Rooker, Minister for Sustainable Food and Farming.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1590http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1590Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)National Foods has announced the signing of a conditional agreement to purchase the Launceston-based business Hillwood Cheeses.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1592http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1592Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)Unistraw has granted Danisco the worldwide exclusivity for the sales and marketing of its internationally patented straw concept for use with Howaru premium probiotics.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1593http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1593Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Fonterra CEO Andrew Ferrier described the conclusion of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations free trade agreement (ASEAN FTA) negotiations as excellent news for the country’s dairy industry.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1589http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1589Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)UK dairy industry trade body Dairy UK has appointed Mark Allen as Chairman. Allen succeeds the Rt Hon David Curry MP, independent Chairman of Dairy UK for the last four years.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1588http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1588Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)Kamal Mukherjee, founder of DrinkUpNY.com, talks to FoodBev.com about his passion for technology and beverages.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1591http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1591Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Novel dairy foods, functional foods, sustainability and process improvements are some of the exciting areas that could be explored by the recipient of the 2009 Innovation in Dairy Manufacturing Award. http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1587http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1587Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)Alpenmilch, Austria’s fifth largest dairy company has launched a new website - www.milch.com. http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1585http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1585Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)Three million visitors to the Tower of London can now enjoy the delights of Beechdean Dairies’ Farmhouse Dairy ice cream now that work to the Well Tower Kiosk has been completed and the unit is back in use. http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1586http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1586Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMTbill.bruce@zipublishing.com (Bill Bruce)US ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is introducing a cleaner, greener freezer for testing in the US.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1584http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1584Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMTgeoff.platt@zipublishing.com (Geoff Platt)French Health Minister, Roselyne Bachelot, has rejected calls for a higher tax on foods considered to be unhealthy.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1582http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1582Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)A new report reveals that food and beverage manufacturers are turning to ingredients such as green tea and soy proteins to counter global obesity.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1581http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1581Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Coca-Cola Amatil has won the latest battle to increase the amount of groundwater it extracts from its Peats Ridge water bottling plant.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1583http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1583Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:50:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Parents of a one-year-old baby affected by China's contaminated milk scandal are suing Sanlu Group Co.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1580http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1580Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:30:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. has reported third quarter 2008 revenue of $3.8 billion (€2.7 billion), a 2% increase over last year.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1579http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1579Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:00:00 GMTmk@zipublishing.com (Magdalena Kogutowska)Big Earth Brands has launched a low calorie aqua plus drink targeting athletes and those looking to enhance their sports performance.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1578http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1578Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:30:00 GMTmk@zipublishing.com (Magdalena Kogutowska)John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, appears in his first TV commercial to help promote Country Life butter as part of a £5m relaunch campaign for the brand.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1577http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1577Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Heinz has taken the "precautionary measure" of recalling 270 cases of the Heinz Intelligence Many Many Vegetable Cereal baby food, sold in Hong Kong.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1576http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1576Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Milk Link is to increase its member milk price by 1p per litre (ppl) from 1 October 2008.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1575http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1575Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)The future of UK luxury ice cream brand, Loseley, is in doubt after its parent company, Hill Station, was last week forced to suspend its shares on the Alternative Investment Market.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1574http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1574Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:30:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Hall & Woodhouse has selected Drink-IT from K3 to provide a fully integrated finance, sales, production and property system to meet the company’s expansion plans.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1573http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1573Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)The Ball Corporation has brought its 16oz Alumi-Tek aluminium beverage bottles to market with Miller Lite. http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1572http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1572Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMTmk@zipublishing.com (Magdalena Kogutowska)Cadbury has sent its chocolate outside China for testing, despite its milk being cleared of melamine contamination by the Chinese government.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1571http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1571Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)Cargill Value Added Meats, a division of Cargill Meat Solutions, has laid off 175 production workers at a US turkey processing facility that the company acquired from Willow Brook Foods in March.http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1570http://www.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1570Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMTshaun.weston@zipublishing.com (Shaun Weston)