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Coffee-growing countries from around the world could agree a common position on measures to address the coffee price crisis at a 10-11 July 2019 meeting in Campinas, Brazil. Representatives of producer organisations in Brazil and Colombia are driving what could become an international alliance of countries who are seeking urgent action on coffee prices. Representatives […]

The Bazzara Academy in Trieste organises a new course to become a certified Q-Grader, an international expert in the selection and tasting of coffee. The course will be held at the Academy HQ in the centre of Trieste from August 26th – 31st 2019. It will be a week of highly specialized training during which

Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group has confirmed that its Australian subsidiary has signed an agreement to acquire a group of companies known as ‘The Bean Alliance,’ thus strengthening its presence in the Australian market.  Massimo Zanetti, the group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer said “Australia is an interesting market with a well-established high-quality coffee culture and with

Citing recent findings by the World Health Organization’s cancer research body, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in California wants to overturn a decision that coffee should bear a health warning. As recently reported by C&CI, a judge in California recently ruled that, under California’s Proposition 65, coffee companies involved in lawsuits brought by

EU member states have voted in favour of a European Commission proposal to reduce the presence of acrylamide in food. Once implemented, the regulation will require that food business operators apply mandatory measures to reduce the presence of acrylamide, proportionate to the size and nature of their establishment. Acrylamide is a carcinogenic substance that forms

The National Coffee Association (NCA) in the US recently filed comments with California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the state regulatory agency that enforces Proposition 65. The NCA comments focused on misapplications of the law that have made coffee the subject of claims which forced the industry into court. Coffee is not alone,