Poultry exports drive growth for Ukraine’s MHP
Export sales grew by nearly 50% in the 12 months up to December 2016 for Ukraine’s grain and poultry giant MHP.
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MEPs hop into action on rabbit farming welfare
Member States of the European Union are encouraging rabbit farmers to phase out conventional battery cages.
Make tomatoes tasty again: Scientists discover ‘flavour genes’ in the world’s most valuable fruit
Mass produced commercial tomatoes contain increasingly less flavour and return increasingly less consumer satisfaction. A team of researchers has discovered a ‘genetic roadmap’ for rebreeding tastiness into tomatoes
AFT targets mislabeling of fish and seafood in US
Applied Food Technologies (AFT) has set its sights on seafood species identification and verification to help combat fish fraud.
Portugal to trial origin labelling for milk
Portugal will go ahead with compulsory origin labelling on milk, cheese and other dairy products, the country's minister for agriculture confirmed this week.
Retailers call for 'smart legislation' on food waste
European retailers have welcomed a draft EU report on food waste, reiterating its calls for for "smart legislation" that incentivises action to prevent food waste in the supply chain.
EFSA quits Brussels for Parma home; commits to livestreaming
The European Food safety Authority (EFSA) is moving open meetings back to its Parma Italy base after a year in Brussels failed to increase turn-outs.
Swedes spin silk from whey protein
Whey protein has become the unlikely source for producing artificial silk as researchers have perfected a method that uses nanostructures to form this high-demand material.
Hardy Diagnostics introduces chromogenic culture media
Hardy Diagnostics has launched a product for use as a primary stool screening medium for isolation and differentiation of Salmonella and Shigella spp.
Lack of UK policy on food security could be costly, warns charity
The UK government has been accused by an NGO of “playing Russian Roulette” with climate change as it downplayed the risks that global warming could have on food security.