New potato varieties target storage, disease, and chip quality.
Italian authorities have fined three private-label savoury snack manufacturers.
Bühler will use interpack 2026 to show new roasting, chocolate processing, baking, wafer, and extrusion technologies aimed at higher efficiency and broader format flexibility across confectionery, bakery, snacks, food, and feed production.
Bakery recalls have sharpened hygiene control scrutiny. Saffron Pastries and FNM Bakery have withdrawn 43 products in England following separate rodent contamination incidents.
Warburtons is investing more than £100 million across bakery capacity, gluten-free production, distribution, and new lines, expanding its footprint and backing demand in branded bakery despite a tougher operating climate.
TNA will preview a new vacuum de-oiler at interpack 2026 designed to lower oil content in batch-fried potato chips while avoiding the reheating, extra browning, and added acrylamide risk associated with some conventional systems.
Bakers Basco has doubled tracker deployment across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after a fresh enforcement push recovered more than 2,400 bakery assets and uncovered concentrated misuse linked to unauthorised supply activity in Belfast.
Rothamsted Research has developed gene-edited wheat with sharply lower free asparagine, opening a route to reduced acrylamide formation in bread, biscuits, and crisps without the yield penalties seen in conventional mutation approaches.
Tostitos has rolled out a major packaging refresh that brings ingredient, process, and product-attribute messaging more prominently onto pack across core tortilla chip lines.
Cargill has expanded specialty fats capacity in Port Klang, Malaysia. The new line broadens regional supply for confectionery, bakery, frying, fillings, and dairy applications.