SoFresh, Inc. has numerous ongoing trials with North American bakeries to develop bakery packaging that extends the shelf life of bread and other perishable treats.
Soluble corn fiber can reduce the sugar content in chocolate by up to 50% while retaining similar levels of sweetness and leaving no aftertaste, according to a recently published patent by Mondelēz International.
Attempts by soil and improvement company Ancientgrain to sue bakery ingredients conglomerate Bakels Senior NV for patent infringement over teff have been rejected by the Court of The Hague.
Ozo Innovations has launched a single step cleaning and disinfection system which it claims will make food factory hygiene more robust and sustainable.
What are the latest free-from trends sweeping Europe? How is the mature gluten-free market staying innovative? And how much on-pack prominence should you give to free-from claims? FoodNavigator hit the expo floor at SIAL in Paris to find out.
Industry-sponsored academic research leads to innovative patents and licenses, and may not skew science towards inventions that are less accessible and less useful to others, according to a new analysis.
Canadian plant protein pioneer Burcon has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office that a composition of matter patent application over its CLARISOY soy-based protein - which is licensed to ADM - will proceed to grant as...
Adding low levels of red and black pigments to chocolate prior to aeration can prevent aerated chocolate from getting lighter and potentially putting off consumers, according to a patent filed by Unilever.
Nestlé says it will fight a UK High Court ruling in favor of smaller rival Dualit that one lawyer says is an 'open door' for copycat manufacturers of Nespresso compatible coffee pods.
Diageo has filed patents in a range of nations detailing a formulation process for alcoholic cocktails, sold in bottles at ambient temperatures then frozen by consumers to form a ready-to-serve pourable slush.
Plant extract specialist Vitiva has opened an innovation centre in Slovenia to cater to increased consumer demands for joint involvement in application development.
BioPlus is introducing a new sucralose to manufacturers around the world, and sees future market growth in developing new versions of the popular sweetener.
Lexington Pharmaceutical is seeking global manufacturing partners
for its innovative sucralose process, which it claims is greener
than methods used by leading competitors.
Senomyx has announced a two-year extension to its collaborative
research and license agreement with food and beverage giant Nestle,
focusing on developing new flavor ingredients for use in
dehydrated, culinary and frozen foods.
Long term R&D strategies look to be paying off as Danisco is
recognised as being one of the strongest patentees compared with
other companies in the food sector.
A composition and matter patent granted to Canadian supplier
Neptune Technologies & Bioresources for its omega-3 and
antioxidants boosted krill-based ingredients last year has been
validated by the European Patent Office.
Although Arla Foods halted production of the sweetener tagatose in
2006, the low-calorie, low-GI sugar replacer has not died a death.
Rather Nutrilab sees a strong future and is working up to full
scale production.
Danisco has entered into a license agreement for its
anhydrofructose technology with Japan's Nihon Starch Co, the first
such deal aimed at bringing the new calorie-free sugar to
market.
Kemin Health has filed a patent infringement suit against
OmniActive Health Technologies for methods pertaining to the
isolation and purification of lutein and lutein compositions.
An Indian pharmaceutical firm has completed a new sucralose
facility and is ready to begin production of the popular sweetener,
using what it claims to be a non patent-infringing process.
An Indian pharmaceutical firm has completed a new sucralose
facility and is ready to begin production of the popular sweetener,
using what it claims to be a non patent-infringing process.
The EU has been urged to subsidise patent applications for young
innovative companies in order to ensure that Europe's biotech and
agricultural sectors remain competitive.
Food makers could soon reduce costs for popular sweetener
sucralose, as analysts suggest key patents held by the market
leader Tate & Lyle may soon come to an end, reports Lindsey
Partos.
SureBeam - provider of electron beam and x-ray irradiation
technology - has been awarded a US patent that extends its current
two-pass patented x-ray system to a four-pass system.
Cognis Nutrition & Health, a nutritional ingredients supplier,
has responded to claims made earlier this week by Dutch rival
Loders Croklaan regarding the infringement of several of its
patents.
Lonza, the Swiss-based pharmaceuticals company, has said that the
US Food and Drug Administration has allowed the sale of PepZin GI,
a recent dietary ingredient submission to the federal agency.
The Ecologist group Greenpeace condemned the granting of a European
patent for a genetic tweak that can make salmon grow eight times
larger than normal.
