Private lab says listeria found in Alabama-made Blue Bell

Largest-ever capital investment at Lake District Creamery

First Milk boosts cheddar output

Nomad Foods bolsters UK food supply chain with £2.2m investment in its Lowestoft factory

Lindt & Sprüngli opens new campus in Aachen for up to 300 employees

The site combines administration, laboratory and sensory areas as well as a factory outlet with a Maître Chocolatier Atelier

Million-euro investment: Westfalen doubles industrial gases capacities in Switzerland

Capacity in Eiken is almost doubled and secures gas supply for customers in the pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical, beverage, welding and cutting sectors

Lotus Bakeries is expanding its production site in Lembeke

The new production hall is set to make Lembeke the largest single-product cookie production site in Europe

Germany's largest dairy cooperative is entering the lactoferrin market

New strategic business segment strengthens innovative capacity and the Altentreptow site

Karwendel expands production capacities

New location for NOA in Landsberg am Lech

FrieslandCampina is investing over €90 million in high-value whey proteins

Three Dutch sites are being modernised

Un­ternehmens­gruppe Theo Müller is expanding its brand portfolio with Greek-style yoghurts

Hochwald brands Elinas and Lünebest are moving to Müller

More biotech expertise for lactose-free milk: Kerry opens expanded manufacturing hub in Ireland

The Carrigaline facility combines enzyme strain development from Leipzig with large-scale lactase production

Conscious, sophisticated enjoyment outlasts the quick rush

BOAR Gin® demonstrates that a decline in alcohol consumption can also offer opportunities for producers of high-quality spirits

Nordzucker’s Finnish subsidiary adjusts its production structure

Suomen Sokeri Oy is discontinuing raw sugar refining at its Porkkala site

Kräuter Mix launches new germ reduction facility after fire recovery

New continuous germ reduction system complements existing batch operations while adding 1,300 m² total space

German biotech company chooses Saxony-Anhalt for protein production facility

MicroHarvest relies on regional molasses as a raw material and short supply chains in uncertain times

Oatly invests $16 million in its Swedish production plant to support growing global demand

The oat milk producer is expanding its Landskrona facility and increasing production to 200 million liters per year

Bel invests $200 million to double Babybel® production capacity in Brookings, South Dakota

A strategic step to support strong and sustained growth in the U.S. snacking and cheese market

Danish food startup FERM FOOD acquires Orkla’s former site and scales up

Up to 20,000 tonnes of fermented ingredients per year

50 million tubes to meet the growing demand for mustard

Händlmaier doubles production capacity with ultra-modern tube plant and secures growth in the national and international mustard market

Arla announces largest-ever investment in new Swedish cheese dairy

Götene initiative boosts Swedish cheese and jobs

Barry Callebaut invests €250 million in world's largest chocolate factory

In addition, another € 125 million Masterplan is designed for the factory in Halle

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer’s, other dementias

Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

Healthy ultra-processed foods should be exempt from food policy restrictions

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

Why the food that made us human may be making us sick

Food processing and packaging machinery industry in good shape

Improving taste and texture in oat drinks

Greek-Swedish scientist selected as finalist for the European Inventor Award 2026

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Europe is pooling billions to turn biotech companies into global champions

EQT will manage the €5 billion fund, investing in biotech, AI and other key technologies

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

From the lab to the next generation of startups

IBT Lower Saxony funds research projects from Göttingen and Braunschweig with almost 2.4 million euros

Largest study to date on the genetics of blood proteins highlights new disease mechanisms and drug repurposing opportunities

Machine learning combined with genetic analysis is expected to enable a more targeted use of active substances in precision medicine

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

One Molecule, Two Effects: A New Drug Concept to Treat Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

Reversible glue technology goes electric

Water-based adhesive joins electronic components and releases them on demand

Merck upgrades full-year guidance and expects revenue of up to €21.4 billion

New CEO Kai Beckmann announces adaptation to the operating model

First ​“protein map” of neurons that initiate pain reveals new targets for drugs

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

Job cuts at WACKER: Around 1,600 jobs in Germany affected

Global cost-cutting and efficiency program PACE aims to generate annual savings of over 300 million euros

Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics

This acquisition strengthens Roche’s position in digital pathology

Brain tumor spread in the living brain observed live for the first time

Three-photon microscopy reveals: immune cells of the brain actively influence how far the tumor advances

Sunfire to Build Electrolysis Test Facility at BASF Site in Schwarzheide

Test facility supports the industrial-scale deployment of green hydrogen

Making biomolecules glow: new dye solves problem

Combating unwanted signals in microscopy: method ensures just labelled biological molecules glow

Recovering critical materials from batteries

Chinese inventors selected as finalists for the European Inventor Award 2026

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry