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Oman Food Investment Holding Company (OFIC) will be investing around $620m in three projects that include the construction of dairy, poultry and red meat factories.
Nestle is destroying 27,420t of its Maggi noodles stock worth more than $50m in India after a recent ban on the products by the country's food safety authority.
US-based food security company Blumberg Grain has opened the first aggregation centre of its Shouna Development Project in Egypt.
The Indian unit of US-based coffee chain Starbucks has suspended the use of several ingredients after it was revealed that the products had not been approved by food safety inspectors.
UK's Go Green Tomato has launched a tablet-based solution that will use smart technology and cloud-based reporting services to monitor and prevent food-waste.
Nestle India has approached the Bombay High Court regarding the recent order of the Food and Drug Administration in Maharashtra (FDA) and the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India...
Minnesota-based Watkins has sued spice manufacturer McCormick alleging that the the company has misled its customers by decreasing the amount of black pepper sold in containers, without adjusting the size...
Syngenta has rejected a second takeover proposal from US sustainable agriculture company Monsanto, despite offers to pay a $2bn reverse break-up fee if the company cannot obtain global regulatory approvals.
Oman Sugar Refinery (OSRC) has signed a $300m engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with the China-based Sinolight Corporation to construct the country's first sugar refinery in Sohar Freezone.
India's Food Standards and Safety Authority of India (FSSAI) has ordered Nestle to recall all nine varieties of Maggi noodles amid a food scare regarding excess lead in the popular...
