Ireland sets ambitious targets for functional foods
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Ireland's functional foods industry has been slated for major growth under a government-backed development programme announced last week.
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Europe's food and drink industry could face new regulations if it does not try harder to tackle obesity.
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Food Standards Agency launches biggest health drive since campaign to cut salt consumption
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Foods that taste great and can help make you healthier are a win-win combination.
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A major government food campaign is aiming to persuade Britons to limit their sugar intake.
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Around 80 small to medium-sized enterprises from across Ireland, north and south, are aiming to generate business in Belfast today.
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Europe&#39;s food and drink industry must  step up its fight against obesity over the next three years or  face new regulations, a spokesman for the European Union&#39;s  health chief said on Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS - The British and the Irish can still down a pint of beer, walk a mile, covet an ounce of gold, and eat a pound of bananas after the European Union ruled yesterday that the countries could retain measurements dating to the Middle Ages.
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A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, poultry and whole grain foods may offer protection against chronic lung disease, a new study suggests.
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PERENNIAL takeover target and suitor National Foods has identified SPC Ardmona as a merger partner in a deal that would add packaged fruit to its own dairy operations and build a major Australian food company.
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Northern Ireland's largest food-processing company, Moy Park Ltd., pledged Thursday to discover how a potentially cancer-causing drug ended up in up to 23 tonnes of its free-range chickens.
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Ireland's government launched a campaign to tackle obesity, with Health Minister Micheal Martin calling the nation's increasing weight "one of the most serious problems" it now faces.
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Irelandâs relatively new emphasis on entrepreneurs is the culmination of four decades of policies that have lifted the economy from centuries of poverty to modern prosperity.
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Northern Ireland's parties are making big efforts to achieve a breakthrough, Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
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The region's biggest supermarket chain, Giant Food Inc., will launch a line of natural and organic foods this weekend in an effort to cash in on one of the supermarket industry's fastest-growing niches.
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A new diet-focused strategy dubbed the &quot;Polymeal&quot; could reduce the risk of heart disease by 76% and significantly increase life expectancy.
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The government said the standards would cover  everything from breeding fish and seafood products to disease prevention and drug controls.