News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
India
Many grocery store owners, restaurant proprietors and refreshment vendors will stop selling drinks made by multinational brands in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu from March 1—though shopkeepers have reported a sharp drop in sales ahead of the protest.
'Kids throw milk at each other...it's a waste of public money'
Students in Sri Lanka are not eating healthy diets and are shunning school milk programmes due to social and cultural factors, and until these are tackled the country’s double burden of malnutrition will remain, experts say.
South Asia Radius
Indian food processors are on track to tempt US$33bn in investment and generate employment for almost 10m in the next seven years.
There are “huge opportunities” for sales of baby water products to soar in China, with consumers extremely concerned about mixing infant formula with polluted tap water, analysts say.
An independent review set up by the Australian meat industry will analyse the feasibility of rolling out carcase measurement technology nationwide.