Beta-carotene, nature's healthy colourant, is the perfect choice of colourant for yellow-orange beverages. Not only does it provide a bright and appetising colour, it also allows the beverage manufacturer to make a claim for vitaminA, since Beta-carotene is known as pro-vitaminA.

The Servotube from Copley Controls is claimed to be the first three-phase linear motor designed specifically for use as an actuator.

E-Components and Chains (ECC) is launching Detectamet metal detectable rubber sheeting, designed for use on machinery throughout the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Biodegradable polymers are gaining popularity, for instance, in agricultural applications such as mulch films, flowerpots and controlled-release fertilisers, and in packaging items such as carrier bags and food wrapping and containers.

Baldor is launching an innovative way to implement machinery and motion control systems using the industry-standard Ethernet Powerlink protocol.

Norgren is introducing a new high-performance proportional control valve, the VP60, which features new microprocessor-driven position control and high dynamic properties, thereby enabling short acceleration times to be achieved.

Banner Engineering is introducing its World-Beam Q12 series ultra-miniature photoelectric sensors.

Dr Cameon Ivarsson reports on the challenge facing countries to improving their own standards if they hope to export and commercialise their products in Europe.

With increasing concern about the occurrence of Enterobacter sakazakii infections in neonates who have been fed milk-based powdered infant formula, new Oxoid Chromogenic Enterobacter sakazakii Agar (Druggan-Forsythe-Iversen formulation) provides a valuable tool for food testing laboratories.

Over the past number of years meat and sausage companies have extended their incoming goods controls to include mixed spices, additives and auxiliary agents.

In the UK, scientists are using the beneficial bacteria known as probiotics to destroy food poisoning bacteria in poultry before it enters the food chain.

Isolation of DNA from food and food ingredients can present a host of difficulties to the analytical scientist, writes Dr Jacqui Coutts. Unlike the average blood or tissue sample, foods and food ingredients presented for analysis may have undergone a variety of high temperature and pressure treatments.

While the food ingredients industry is trying to meets its consumers' requests for greater choice, the EU is making development more difficult. It is generating more demanding legislation on ingredients in food than any other authority, including the USA.

Beta-carotene is the main colorant in carrots, and the most abundant carotenoid in nature. It is a unique ingredient because it possesses three significant attributes.

Wiesengold Landei is supplying organic egg products to small and big enterprises in the food sector including the baby food industry.

A new type of mixer without discharge doors has been developed, which means that both filling and discharge of the mixer take place through the same valve.

CO2-extraction is known to produce high grade essential oils with authentic composition.

Outsourcing can be a bit of an adventure, an adventure of hope and expectation cloaked in fear and dread.

Drug discovery is an extremely lengthy and costly process. On average, it takes new treatments nearly US$1b and 12 years to reach the market ­ and those are just the ones that succeed.

A new, holistic and cost effective approach to the specialist transportation of diagnostic samples at low and sub-zero temperatures will deliver big savings in both time and money for research sponsors, laboratories and investigators the world over.