Sustainability has always underpinned the way Beneo does business from ingredient sourcing to investing in greener factories, according to its executive board member.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) board last week decided to go ahead with plans to replace its General Advisory Committee on Science (GACS) with a new Science Council in the face of unanimous opposition from members of GACS, who feared the loss of independent...
Vitabiotics’ Robert Taylor will be the new chairman of the UK Health Food Manufacturers’ Association (HFMA) succeeding Lynn Lord who has left after a year in the post. Ray Myers of Wassen takes Taylor’s vacated vice-chair seat.
EFSA MGMT BOARD: "Bernhard will ...provide Europe with the best scientific advice to protect consumers from food-related risks..."
Doctor Bernhard Url is the new chief of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) after its management board confirmed the acting-chief as its next executive director this week.
Lalen Dogan, managing director of Aker BioMarine’s Australasia operation, has been elected to the role of deputy chairman of The Omega-3 Centre, an antipodean authority on long-chain omega-3s and nutritional health.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is looking for a new chief after executive director Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle resigned to work in the French public service.
In March 2013 senior business leaders from global food, drink and nutrition businesses will come together for Food Vision, a world-first industry summit established by the publishers of FoodNavigator.com and NutraIngredients.com. Food Vision will provide...
Diána Bánáti, the recently resigned chair of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) management board, says she was not forced to depart by the Parma-based agency’s hierarchy – rather resigning herself after taking a new industry post.
MEPs have voted to delay approving the way in which the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) spent EU funds in 2010 over concerns about possible conflicts of interest within the body and the high costs of its management board meetings.
The second part of this exclusive interview sees Beneo executive board member, Yves Servotte, explaining the cooling but not crushing effect of EU prebiotic health claim rejections on its inulin-chicory business.
Poll results: 66% of readers say the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) should block its staff from taking up ‘revolving door’ jobs …. and the head of the EU risk assessor agrees.
Krill oil producer Aker BioMarine ASB has announced the formation of a scientific advisory board that it says will help to the company to navigate the development of new products in the supplement and food industry.
The Global Organization for EPA and DHA (GOED) has expanded its board of directors from eight to 14 to represent growth in the association’s recent membership.
After a period of de-stocking in the first half of 2009, DSM’s nutrition business has weathered the economic slump well; pharma, too, picked up speed towards the end of the year.
The Sudzucker-owned Beneo Group established the Beneo Institute in late 2009 to give “new oxygen to a squeezed industry”, as Executive Board member, Yves Servotte, puts it, to a functional foods industry facing unprecedented regulatory and scientific...
DSM has linked with the North China Pharmaceutical Group Corporation in three separate projects that will see DSM take a minority 10 per cent share in the Chinese company.
One year ago, the Sudzucker Group united its inulin (Orafti), starch (Remy) and sweetener (Palatinat) companies to form the Beneo Group. Shane Starling spoke with executive board member, Yves Servotte, about the group's performance a year on.
Netherlands-based DSM and Swiss chemicals group Roche said today
they have received approval from the US Federal Trade Commission
for the Roche vitamins deal. With final transfer of the business to
DSM expected at the end of the month,...
UK-based natural healthcare company William Ransom has appointed
two non-executive directors, to help boost its brand development
strategy, as it continues to acquire consumer health brands.
Dutch health foods group Wessanen could be split up to restore its
performance, according to reports from the general shareholders
meeting held yesterday.
Numico said last week that board member Bill Watts is stepping down
from the board as he had expressed a potential interest in buying
its US chain GNC in partnership with a US venture capital firm. The
company says no decision has...
Cranberry co-operative Ocean Spray voted on Saturday for a clean
slate - replacing most of its board with a brand new set of faces -
in the wake of lagging cranberry prices and a bid from rival
Northland Cranberries.
Dutch food group Numico said today the head of its US operations,
which includes the struggling vitamin maker Rexall Sundown, is to
step down in a management re-shuffle designed to boost performance.
Dutch speciality foods group Wessanen said this week that 2002
earnings will be lower than previously announced, following poor
fourth quarter results at its Tree of Life North America division.
The CEO and CFO of the division are...
Swiss fine chemicals company Lonza said today that Martin Ebner's
BZ Group Holding plans to sell its 19.8 per cent stake in the
business in the coming weeks in a bid to raise cash for the
investor group.
Europe will move closer to the completion of its food safety body
next week when the 15 member management board of the new European
Food Safety Authority meets for the first time and aims to appoint
the first director.
Dutch life science company DSM this week posted a net profit of
€959 million. DSM Food Specialties and DSM Bakery Ingredients
posted improved operating profits on the same period last year.