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while many danish multinationals such as carlsberg and lego have opted to shift production abroad to drive their global success, chr hansen believes a domestic approach holds the building blocks for world dairy culture domination. speaking yesterday at the official launch of the its largest dairy cultures plant, situated in hoersholm, denmark, chr hansen claimed that enhancing its domestic culture production would be the best way to meet surging export demand amongst processors.

the uk’s food standards agency is introducing a programme of industry secondments for its staff, so it can have better understanding of how compliance might work when it is developing or negotiating regulations. the project, which is in its early stages, forms part of the world class regulator , an initiative presented to the fsa’s board. philip clarke, head of better regulation, told foodnavigator.

cargill has opened a huge new rapeseed plant in western france, said to provide a new outlet for local farmers and bring a new source of rapeseed oil for the food and fuel industries. the plant, which is located in montoir, 5km from cargill’s sunflower plant in saint nazaire, will process up to 600,000 metric tones of rapeseed a year – most of which will be sourced locally.

in the final part of our special series on sustainability, foodnavigator considers the value of a dedicated focus on sustainability science in the food industry. sustainability science unites expertise from a diverse range of disciplines, including geography, agriculture, ecology, economics, physics and political science. according to the “integrated research system for sustainability science (ir3s)", a japanese collaboration, the field is “a newly emerging academic field that seeks to understand the linkages among global, social, and human systems, and concomitant risks to human well-being and security.

lower futures prices for wheat herald a shaving of input costs for bakers and millers, with the collapse of lehman brothers and the near-bankcruptcy of global insurer aig arguably hitting agricultural quotations downwards. whether the drop in future prices is a ripple effect from tectonic events on wall street this week, or is simply a result of more buoyant harvest statistics, is up for debate.

bread and baked goods are increasingly stepping into the functional food arena, with the past month alone seeing a number of new developments designed to bring added health to the category. omega-3 bread george weston bakeries in the us this week launched an omega-3 bread, which is formulated to improve heart health. grains & more double omega bread, marketed under the arnold and brownberry brand names, contains 25mg of omega-3 epa/dha per slice.

a thermal imaging camera can provide rapid detection of temperature variations of high volume, fast moving meats products on a conveyor line, says its us manufacturers. lumasense technologies said the new mikron mcl-160 is a cost-effective and fast response radiometric camera that is integrated with mikrospec rt software to offer food processors a non-contact temperature measurement system.