Food safety
Happy New Year across the confectionery world
Here’s wishing one and all within our sector a very Happy New Year – we think you’ll agree that 2022 has been an especially memorable period indeed.
Business news, Cocoa & chocolate, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Processing, Regulatory, Sustainability
Exclusive: The global confectionery sector 2022 year in review
Editor Neill Barston offers a reflection on the most notable moments of 2022’s global confectionery calendar.
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Exclusive: tna celebrates 40 years of manufacturing excellence
After four decades supplying packaging and processing machinery around the world, Nadia Taylor, co-founder of Australia’s tna solutions, has enjoyed a memorable career to date. Neill Barston meets her and its regional Dubai team at Gulfood Manufacturing to discuss its eventful journey
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Video Exclusive: Ferrero World Confectionery Conference 2023 interview
Plans for our World Confectionery Conference 2023 edition are fast taking shape, with the event set to make a return to Brussels on 14 September.
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Wishing you all a very happy and enjoyable Christmas time
This week’s column will be extremely short, but hopefully fairly sweet in offering everyone working within the confectionery, snacks and bakery markets a very happy Christmas indeed, and thanks for all your engagement and support throughout this year.
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Exclusive: Choco Tec event delivers key confectionery sector insights
After a four year wait to return in its traditional live format, Choco Tec proceeded in Cologne with a strong and dynamic assessment of chocolate and wider global sweets and snacks markets, reports Neill Barston.
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Choco Tec 2022: event review
Editor Neill Barston offers an exclusive review of this year’s Choco Tec event, including speaking to show director Andreas Bertram on his assessment of this year’s event, which return to Cologne for the first time in 4 years in its live form, due to the pandemic.
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Exclusive video: Choco Tec 2022 event review
This year’s Choco Tec event in Cologne, Germany, attracted a key global audience from across the chocolate and wider confectionery sector to discuss major trends and areas of development for the industry.
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Breaking: NCA offers safety reassurance after consumer study claiming cadmium risks in chocolate
The National Confectioners Association has moved to offer reassurances over product safety in response to a US study alleging potentially harmful levels of cadmium and lead are present in dark chocolate confectionery, reports Neill Barston.
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A festive greeting for World Confectionery Conference 2023 plans
Following in the wake of extremely positive feedback from our first live format World Confectionery Conference in Brussels, we can confirm it is set to return next year in Belgium.
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ISM Middle East 2022 review
Editor Neill Barston speaks to ISM Middle East director, Jan Philipp Hartmann at the conclusion of this year’s key event at the Dubai World Trade Centre, as well as speaking to Karen Beston, of PS8 events, representing the UK pavilion at this eclectic three-day finished product showcase
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Nestlé moves to voluntarily restrict confectionery marketing to under 16’s from 2023
A key decision has been made by Nestlé over responsible marketing, as it unveils plans to voluntarily restrict confectionery and ice-cream marketing to children under 16, in a bid to further promote healthier lifestyles, writes Neill Barston.
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Schubert unveils new training centre setting the pace for packaging systems’ evolution
German-based confectionery packaging machinery business Schubert has inaugurated a new training centre in Crailsheim, which it has heralded as vital for its future development, reports Neill Barston.
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Tate & Lyle expand sweetener range with Erytesse Erythritol addition
Tate & Lyle PLC has extended its sweetener portfolio with a new line, Erytesse Erythritol, which it has achieved through a new agreement with a specialist ingredient supplier, writes Neill Barston.
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