News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Manufacturers of fish products should adopt clearer labelling to allow consumers to make sustainable choices – because otherwise they may be encouraging boycotts of their products, say campaigners.
Denmark-based automation manufacturer Frontmatec, will provide an automated solution for new a cutting and deboning facility at a pig factory in Finland.
A PHD student at the University of Huddersfield has developed a technique for establishing the difference between pork and beef gelatine.
Eye Vision Technology (EVT) has launched Egg Counter, an EyeVision software to separate and count eggs on a production line.
Argentina has shipped its first consignment of beef to Europe, under the feed-lot quota.
Organic milk contains nearly a third less iodine than conventionally-produced fresh milk, a British study has found.
A multi-country Salmonella outbreak from eggs demonstrated the importance of using MLVA to identify it and WGS to confirm the findings, according to a report in Eurosurveillance.
Special edition: Beyond 2020 - The future of sustainable cocoa
Rising temperatures could seriously change where cocoa is grown in the next half-century and global output could be threatened if the chocolate industry does nothing to protect its key crop.
Nestlé is one of the keynote speakers wading into the debate about ‘what’s new’ in traditional and rapid methods for food-orientated microorganisms.
The Western European packaged food market has grown 5% since 2009, with chilled pasta, sustainable foods and frozen yoghurt leading the way, according to Euromonitor International – but Europe is still a divided market.
Flexicon has launched a Flexi-Disc sanitary Tubular Cable Conveyor for fragile bulk foods and non-foods and is offering free testing at its laboratory in Pennsylvania, US.
Organic crops generally have lower yields than conventional crops – but that’s not the only way to measure their potential to feed the world.