Non-GMO News

Farmer: Non-GMO is not a niche market

Farmers discuss the rewards and challenges of growing non-GMO soybeans and corn By Ken Roseboro The non-GMO market is not a niche; it’s a billion-dollar market. That was one of the main takeaways from a farmer’s panel session at the Organic & Non-GMO Forum last November. The panel included three non-GMO farmers: John Heinecke of […]

ChickP launches non-GMO chickpea starch

Israeli food tech start-up ChickP Protein, Ltd. is offering a non-GMO, native chickpea starch for food and beverage applications. ChickP introduced chickpea isolates last year designed for plant-based dairy products. The native starch has a 98% starch content and smaller granule size than pea and protein starches, providing better gelling and thickening properties. The chickpea […]

LifeLine Foods completes $12 million expansion of non-GMO masa mill

Masa, the corn flour ingredient in tortillas, chips, tamales, and other Mexican foods, is on LifeLine Foods’ product menu in a big way. The company recently completed a $12 million expansion of its masa mill, a 780,000-square-foot building employing 150 workers in St. Joseph, Missouri, heart of the U.S. Corn Belt. “The capital investments we […]

EU consumers want more non-GMO foods, not more genetic engineering

Europe should focus on building the fast-growing non-GMO food market and not allow deregulation of products produced by risky new genetic engineering technologies like gene editing. This was the message of a recent statement published by Alexander Hissting, managing director of the German Association Food without Genetic Engineering (VLOG). “The European Court of Justice (ECJ) […]

Scoular Company’s Idaho plant will manufacture non-GMO barley protein concentrate

The Scoular Company, global provider for feed and food ingredients, announced the site for providing its sustainable, plant-based protein alternative. A 15,000-square-foot facility in Jerome, Idaho will process 1.9 million bushels of barley yearly for its barley protein concentrate (BPC), for use in aquaculture feed and pet food. BPC provides a non-GMO, clean-label solution for […]