The trend towards low-cost food packaging over the past two years, driven by global recession and volatile energy prices, is the main finding of a new study conducted by UK-based analysts Canadean.
Its latest report, Innovation in Liquid Food Packaging, 2009, charts the latest developments in ambient liquid food packaging design since 2007. It reviews the [...]

Five cups of coffee’s worth of caffeine may reverse the impairment of memory associated with Alzheimer’s disease, suggest two new studies with mice.
A dose of 500 milligrams of caffeine was found to reduce the amount of a protein called beta-amyloid in the brain of mice by about 40 per cent, according to studies from researchers [...]

Nestle USA has expressed concern and regret after US food authorities finally confirmed the bacterium E.coli H7:157 had been detected in its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough.
Investigators announced yesterday a trace of the deadly bacteria was found in a tub of Nestle’s chocolate cookie dough made at the company’s Virginia plant in February. The contaminated [...]