PureCircle, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a producer of stevia products, launched a joint venture with Nordzucker, Braunschweig, Germany, one of Europe’s largest sugar companies.
Synergy Flavors Inc. has developed a range of flavors from traditional chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla to more trendy and complex flavors such as honey cream and baked oatmeal.
The time to prepare for a crisis is before it happens. The lessons of the last few years have been vivid – melamine in milk powder, salmonella in peanut butter, E. Coli in spinach and millions of barrels of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.