Lab milk under the microscope: sensible substitute or premature euphoria?

03-Jul-2023 - Meat from the petri dish or insects from the chip bag: In the search fornew ways to feed a steadily growing world population, researchershave been experimenting for years with alternatives to conventional food production.Climate change is also increasingly bringing sustainable nutrition into ...

Sugar cartel ordered to pay millions in damages

27-Jun-2023 - The major sugar producers Südzucker, Nordzucker and Pfeifer & Langen are to pay millions of euros in damages for collecting excessive sugar prices following cartel agreements, according to rulings. The Mannheim Regional Court ruled Friday that Nestlé Deutschland AG is entitled to around 8.4 ...

Maß beer at the Wiesn becomes more expensive - many tents take 14.50 euros

26-Jun-2023 - The measure of beer at the Munich Oktoberfest is once again becoming more expensive: The range this year is between 12.60 euros and 14.90 euros. Many tents take 14,50 euro, as from one on Thursday presented overview of the department for work and economics resulted. On average, guests have to put ...

Danone continues to raise prices sharply - sales outlook raised

28-Apr-2023 - French food group Danone has also raised prices sharply at the start of the year. As a result, sales in the first three months climbed more than experts had expected. Danone CEO Antoine de Saint-Affrique took the results published Wednesday as an opportunity to raise its growth forecast for the ...

Pernod Ricard liquor group grows strongly thanks to price increases

17-Feb-2023 - Spirits producer Pernod Ricard has benefited from higher prices and the weak euro in its first half of the fiscal year. Sales increased by 19 percent to 7.1 billion euros, as the supplier of brands such as Jameson, Absolut and Havana Club announced in Paris on Thursday. Under its own steam, i.e. ...

German beer sales up in 2022 after COVID pushed them down

02-Feb-2023 - German beer sales rose in 2022 after COVID-19 restrictions weighed on brewers in the previous two years, but the long-term trend remains downward and the World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar didn't get the taps flowing, according to official figures released Wednesday. The Federal Statistical ...

Crickets as food

New EU regulation comes into force

24-Jan-2023 - Starting Tuesday, house crickets may be used in food. A new EU law will then come into force, according to which the insects, also known as crickets, can be frozen, dried or used as a powder. Two days later, the same will apply to larvae of the grain mold beetle. Similar rules already exist for ...

Warsteiner and Karlsberg beverages want to join forces.

29-Nov-2022 - Beverage producers Warsteiner and Karlsberg are seeking to close ranks in the face of rising costs for raw materials, packaging and energy. Karlsberg Getränke Verbund and the Warsteiner Group intend to establish a new independent purchasing company, the two family-owned companies announced on ...

Pesticide glyphosate may be used in the EU for one year longer

17-Nov-2022 - The controversial weed killer glyphosate may be used in the EU one year longer than previously planned. The EU Commission will decide to extend the temporary approval of the weedkiller until Dec. 15, 2023, a spokeswoman for the EU Commission told Deutsche Presse-Agentur on Tuesday. The decision ...

Cocoa farmers fear climate change lowering crop production

15-Nov-2022 - For more than 40 years, Jean Baptiste Saleyo has farmed cocoa on several acres of his family's land in Ivory Coast, a West African nation that produces almost half the world's supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate bars. But this year Saleyo says the rains have become unpredictable, and ...