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Expensive brands in demand: Beck's brewer AB Inbev posts significant gains

03-Mar-2023

The world's largest brewing group AB Inbev benefited last year from high demand for the company's more expensive beer brands. Sales climbed a good six percent to just under $58 billion (54.5 billion euros) in 2022, the maker of brands such as Beck's, Budweiser and Stella Artois announced in ...

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Brewing Up a Sustainable Future

Transforming Farm Waste into Nutritious Food with Fermentation

06-Feb-2023

Dorian Leger and Milena Ivanisevic from Connectomix Bio are leading an international team creating a toolkit that will help startups, large companies and even governments understand the process of transforming waste products into food. They say there is huge potential to use existing ...

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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 ...

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European Green Deal: Putting an end to wasteful packaging, boosting reuse and recycling

06-Dec-2022

Today, the Commission is proposing new EU-wide rules on packaging, to tackle this constantly growing source of waste and of consumer frustration. On average, each European generates almost 180 kg of packaging waste per year. Packaging is one of the main users of virgin materials as 40% of ...

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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 ...

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The European soft drinks sector has achieved a 17.7% reduction in average added sugars since 2015

08-Jul-2022

Just one year after releasing ambitious new health and nutrition commitments, UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe announces that the European soft drinks sector has delivered a further 3.6% reduction in average added sugars between 2019 and 2021. This new sugar reduction milestone is part of the sector’s ...

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Belgium chocolate factory shut after salmonella infection

01-Jul-2022

A huge Belgian chocolate factory has halted production after detecting salmonella in a batch of chocolates. The Barry Callebaut company said Thursday that its plant in Wieze - which it says is the world's largest chocolate factory - shut down all production lines as a precaution while the ...

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Ferrero: Belgian factory restarts after salmonella outbreak

31-May-2022

Following the international recall of children's chocolate products, Ferrero plans to restart the factory in Arlon, Belgium, blamed for the salmonella outbreak. "We have requested a restart from June 13 in order to restart production as soon as possible," Ferrero France CEO Nicolas Neykov told Le ...

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WWF: EU not feeding the world, eating the world

23-May-2022

The European Union imports more food than it exports to the detriment of the environment, a new report by the environmental protection organization WWF has found. "The EU consumes more than its fair share and our current high levels of food production are only possible thanks to massive imports ...

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Beck's brewer AB Inbev benefits from higher beer prices

06-May-2022

Like many of its competitors, the world's largest beer brewer AB Inbev benefited from rising beer prices in the first quarter. Sales rose eight percent to 13.2 billion dollars (12.4 billion euros), the EuroStoxx 50-listed group reported in Leuven on Thursday. Adjusted for the effects of currency ...

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