Tests of beef products conducted across Europe showed that almost 5% of them were tainted with horse meat, and this percentage was higher in some countries such as France and Greece. In February, the European Union, Switzerland and Norway ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is requesting a budget of $4.7bn in 2014, which includes about $295.8m to strengthen food safety. The agency noted that the user fees would fund 94% of the proposed budget ...
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The Inter – American Development Bank (IDB) will provide Brazil with a funding to support sustainable farming methods in the states critical to country’s biomass. As part of the initiative, the grants provided through the ...
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The Easter holiday – the second biggest period for food and drink sales after Christmas – will be a great opportunity for British food and drink firms to showcase their products – particularly with more shoppers wanting to ...
Microbes lurk almost everywhere, from fresh food and air filters to toilet seats and folding money. Most of the time, they are harmless to humans. But sometimes they aren't. Every year, thousands of people sicken from E. coli ...
Full Moon Survival is one of the largest online suppliers of Emergency Survival kits, Emergency Supplies and Food, in addition to emergency food storage/water storage/water filtration, supplies, when dealing with natural disasters. They ...
Michigan Technological University (MTU) researcher Jaroslaw Drelich has developed a new copper-based antimicrobial compound which can make the food supply safer. Drelich, a professor of materials science and engineering, has developed a ...
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DuPont said that while new digital technology is allowing farmers to gather massive amounts of data, the real value comes when data drives insights to help them improve their operations’ profitability. “In today’s ...
On March 4, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) announced the public release of their report for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) focused on the outcomes of two pilot projects designed to test and study various product ...
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US-based Life Technologies, in partnership with Instituto de Medicina Genómica (IMEGEN), Spain, has developed the RapidFinder Equine ID Kit, which detects the presence of equine DNA extracted in meat samples. The kit can be used in ...
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US-based restaurant chain The Cheesecake Factory is using IBM Big Data analytics to quickly alert its restaurants to remove ingredients that do not meet safety standards. The Cheesecake Factory manages a variety of data in bulk volumes ...
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The continuing horsemeat scandal could benefit premium food retailers at the expense of value outlets, according to city analyst Shore Captial. Value brands could prove a casualty of the horsemeat scandal Analysts Clive Black and ...
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The food production system is out of control and puts small-scale farmers at risk as it is controlled by few major companies, according to a report from Fairtrade Foundation. The report noted that about 500 million smallholder farmers ...
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Cotton trades moved at a slower pace in early February, and sellers were more flexible regarding asking prices, after significant price rises in January. The industry was indicating a slight interest for large batches and pressed down ...
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The 3rd North American edition of the Sustainable Foods Summit was hosted in San Francisco on Jan 22-23rd. Improve efficiencies in food supply chains was the resounding message from the summit, which brought together over 160 senior ...
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