Endowment raised to a total of ten million euros

The Dangerous Goods division of Berlin Packaging, a leading full-service supplier of plastic, glass, and metal containers and closures, has donated protective shipping containers to aid Ebola eradication efforts in Liberia. The shippers will be used to transport vials of blood samples from Ebola patients to laboratories for testing.

There is rapidly increasing demand for packaging materials that give even greater protection to their contents. Functional additives are an important technology in meeting this demand for greater product protection in the plastic packaging market. A functional additive modifies the properties of packaging to impart desirable or beneficial functions.

OTA says expanding organic acreage is key issue for next decade

The state of the organic industry is thriving, filled with opportunities on a host of fronts but faced with challenges on many, said Organic Trade Association Executive Director and CEO Laura Batcha at the Natural Products Expo East trade show in Baltimore on Thursday.

The 22nd Anfas Food Product International Specialization Fair, which is the largest international food fair in Turkey, and where Turkish food companies and more than 400 international companies participating from 12 countries exhibit their products and services, and the "Anfaş Bevex" International Beverage Specialization Fairs, which will be organized concurrently, are going to be opened to visit on February 25- 28, 2015 at Antalya Expo Center.

Interviews from FutureFood 2050 share scientific, entrepreneurial, and cultural perspectives on the food security and nutrition challenges facing Africa, including insights from Nobel Peace Prize Winner and former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

Ball Corporation's (NYSE: BLL) Colorado-based employees donated more than 22,000 pounds of canned food for the company's 2014 "Let's Can Hunger" food drive to benefit Community Food Share. The food collected, combined with employee donations and The Ball Foundation's dollar per pound match, will enable Community Food Share to provide nearly 145,000 meals to those in need in Broomfield and Boulder Counties.

The latest interviews from FutureFood 2050 share scientific, entrepreneurial, and cultural perspectives on feeding the hungry in Africa and beyond, including insights from Nobel Peace Prize Winner and former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

Novel learning system combines petabytes of retail data with public health case reports to identify contaminated food sources, shorten intervention times and limit the spread of disease outbreaks
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a first-of-a-kind system that is designed to help food retailers, distributors and public health officials predict the most likely contaminated food sources and accelerate the investigation of food-borne disease outbreaks.

Consumers, who earn between £20,300 and £32,100 a year, dominate the prepared meals market, as they are looking for a convenient and luxurious alternative to home cooking and restaurant dining, finds new report by Canadean.

Strict regulations on health claims have made Europe a centre for clinical trials in the functional food market. Japan, on the contrary, has become a test hub for innovation. In a new report, Canadean investigates the future market of functional foods.

As consumer demand in India changes direction, the food industry continues to grow, in one of the world's most successful economies