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Food Content Misrepresentation – Single Screenshot Series

from: On Food (click image for full story online)

Marketing of Functional Food and Beverages – Free Online Information

This is a useful short report of 9 pages that covers many issues and includes a useful categorisation using twelve medical issues that can respond to functional foods.

from: Food Product Design (click image for full story online)

One of the functional food trends that the report mentions are superfruits, which are a [...]

Foie Gras Threatens France/German Relationships – 5 Months in Bourgogne V

The exchange between France and Germany, that drew in two French ministers and has been running for two or three weeks has now gone public. It arises from the massive Cologne based Aguna Exhibition banning Foie Gras producers from the exhibition, in response to the pressure from animal rights groups protesting the force feeding of [...]

Top 10 Rules for Product Development

This article by Dr Wayne Morley, Head of Food Innovation at Leatherhead maybe reflects his 20 odd years at Unilever!

from: Leatherhead (click image for full story online)

The first four rules are related to taste, another three to human interactions within the company, two regarding the supply chain and the last on being [...]

First View of Food Prices in France! – 5 Months in Bourgogne IV

To begin with I felt that food on France would be expensive and didn’t look too hard. Lately I have started taking a bit more note and am beginning to wonder what is going on. After coming home from a medium sized supermarket in Cluny, a small rural town, I took these items out of [...]

Electronics in French Supermarkets – Five Months in Bourgogne III

I have noticed a number of electronic processes in French Supermarkets that are probably in place to save labour and might therefore not be appropriate for South Africa. However, they are interesting in that they show what is happening in France.

LCD Shelf Price Indication

On a previous visit, about three years ago, many supermarkets [...]

French Bread, Global Warming and Carbon Footprint – Five Months in Bourgogne II

Here is an interesting post, where the writer has satisfied his inquisitiveness about the way the French use bread by doing a short analysis of carbon footprints.

from: The House at Le Gros Chigy (click image for full story online)

 

He finds that its likely that most of those who collect their bread [...]

Fugu Supper Club – Single Screenshot Series

from: The Independent (click image for full story online)

Five Months in Bourgogne!

I am going to be spending the next few months working from a house in rural Bourgogne (Burgundy to the English and the wine drinker!) in France.

Having just returned from a first visit to the supermarket it was interesting that for the first time in my life I actually said to myself “We [...]

Food Safety In An Informal Food System

This 2004 report gives some interesting information on cooked food vending in Lusaka and Harare which accommodate 5 355 and 1 100 businesses. The size of the sector in Harare was felt to be growing because of the difficult economic situation but constrained law enforcement situation.

from: researchintouse.com (click image for full story online) [...]