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Sustainability for success: Fonterra report highlights five-year plan with focus on packaging and health

Fonterra’s 2019 Sustainability Report has highlighted various strategies that the major dairy co-operative intends to implement to 2025, with particular emphasis on key areas such as health and packaging.

10-step plan: South Korea releases new nutrition labelling guidelines to increase food industry compliance

South Korea has released a new 10-step nutrition labelling guidelines document to address challenges faced by food businesses in correctly labelling food and beverage items, in the hopes of increasing industry compliance to standards and regulations.

China coronavirus: Calls to ban live animal sales in wet markets to halt future outbreaks

Sales of live animals at wet markets across China should be banned in the wake of the outbreak of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, according to one expert.

High salt intake linked to increased mortality rate in new Japanese study

Japanese researchers have found a link between high household salt intakes and increased deaths due to various forms of cardiovascular disease, renewing calls for lower salt consumption and increased intake of healthier foods such as fruits, vegetables...

Consumption of chilli pepper may increase physical activity and reduce fat in older adults – Japan study

Capsinoids from non-pungent chilli peppers have been reported to increase physical activity (PA), reduce body fat mass, and promote metabolism in older Japanese adults.

Pharmactive enters APAC cardiovascular market with aged black garlic extract

Spanish biotech company Pharmactive plans to target APAC’s heart health market with its aged black garlic, with launches planned in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore later this year.

Sugar taxes in APAC: Are they really responsible for industry reformulation efforts in the region?

Many APAC governments have explored sugar taxes to some extent over the past few years, but experts now say that although on the surface these appear to have been effective in driving reformulation, consumer behaviour and not taxation is likely to be...

Packaged foods in China: Compulsory allergen labelling and negative claim crackdown proposed

Allergen labelling in China for pre-packaged foods could soon become mandatory under new plans unveiled by the Chinese National Health Commission (NHC).