Saturday, 20 June 2015

Global Agri, Food & Health updates - 21June'15 !

1. ASURO Group a China linked agri investment firm, co-founded by Robert Talevski and Summer Yan, will raise funds to invest at various points along the food chain and is targeting between A$50m and A$100m.

2. DomaCom, an australian property platform has recently started offering agricultural property investments on its real estate platform for as little as A$20,000.

3. AGRICULTUREINFORMATION.COM is India's premier agriculture website in existence for 15 years, with 200,000+ buyers, sellers and experts in Indian Agriculture.

4. Turkey is an attractive destination for European food exports with niche opportunities in dairy, bakery, health and wellness, say market analysts.

5. The Mediterranean diet has been held up as a model of healthy eating around the world, but the region itself is seeing a shift away from traditional diets, threatening health and the environment, says the FAO.

6. The European Environment and Agriculture committees backed a draft law to ban meat and milk from cloned animals and their descendants on Wednesday, citing animal welfare and ethical concerns.

7. DuPont Nutrition and Gelita have filed health claim applications for bowel and joint health.

8. Cargill has opened a European chiller plant in Hereford, UK, enhancing its quality and food safety and says it is the first processor in the UK to introduce Robotics packing, which can process up to 240 breast fillets per minute.

9. Saputo is recalling almost a tonne of French Roquefort cheese in Canada over concerns it contains the toxin produced by Staphylococcus bacteria.

10. Food authenticity analysis is being increasingly used in industry as companies face more sophisticated frauds issues, according to Eurofins.

11. As widely expected, the FDA has finalized plans to revoke the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) in a bid to eradicate artificial trans fats from the US food supply.

12. Euromonitor International expects more chocolate makers will take vertical control of their supply chains by acquiring commodity suppliers as prices continue to climb.

13. Johnson & Johnson’s Nectresse monk-fruit-based sweeteners were discontinued late last year owing to disappointing sales. However, a lawsuit challenging the products’ claims to be ‘100% natural’ is still very much alive.

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