Nestle, the world's largest food company, is concentrating specifically on healthy foods, reorganizing to create a stand-alone nutrition division as of April 1 in the U.S. and globally on January 1, 2006.

PepsiCo announced the promotion of two of its senior most executives to lead its North American beverage and food operations.

The Coca-Cola Co. has made changes to its senior management team and operating structure.

A farm business in Ireland's County Mayo is the first in the world to produce a revolutionary probiotic butter for supermarket shelves.

A new milk protein isolate (MPI) is ultra-filtered and made from skim milk, giving it a clean, bland flavor when compared to some whey protein isolates.

A specialized dictionary, the IFIS Dictionary of Food Science and Technology, will be published this May by Blackwell Publishing.

Oftentimes, manufacturers find dealing with only one supplier helps to make their operation more efficient.

A study that took place over more than eight years at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has shown that women who eat five or more servings of red meat on a weekly basis have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

There is an increasing market demand for blanched and roasted organic almonds.

Assistance for what was once a deeply personal decision--whether to use a pyrophosphate or monocalcium phosphate for your bread or sausage--now can be obtained without embarrassment at the Prepared Foods R&D Conference in the Chicago area on September 19-20, 2005.