The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Board of Directors approved the launch of a new food traceability center designed to protect and improve the global food supply. The Global Food Traceability Center will serve as an authoritative, ...
Tags: Food Traceability Center, Food
Rat meat passed off as lamb meat, dead pigs dumped in the Huangpu river, milk tainted with melamine and rice contaminated with cadmium – living in China, it sometimes seems like our food comes from the infamous factories of Upton ...
Tags: Domestic Firms, Food Safety
A new research study, conducted by RMIT University’s Centre for Design and commissioned by CHEP Australia, has highlighted the role of packaging in cutting down food waste. The study titled 'The role of packaging in minimising food ...
Tags: Packaging, Food Waste
New research shows packaging has a vital role to play within the supply chain in minimising food waste. Conducted by RMITUniversity’s Centre for Design and commissioned by CHEP Australia, the study shows where – and why ...
Tags: Packaging, Food Waste
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agriculture are often on opposite sides of the fence. It’s a love-hate relationship of sorts. The federal agency in part works to protect the U.S. food supply. Yet the FDA has a mixed ...
Tags: Food-Safety, FDA, Agriculture&Food
Environmental Protection Agency acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (shown) on June 4 to announce the launch of a challenge that asks farmers, processors, manufacturers, retailers, ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, EPA, USDA
Cold storage firm Oakland International has big plans to create 2,500 jobs and massively simplify food supply chains with a unique new industry hub. Josh Brooks speaks to Oakland’s founder to find out more Most of the time as a ...
Tags: Frozen Food, Packaging, Oakland
EXCLUSIVE – Ambitious plans for a unique £65m food production hub that would shorten food supply chains and create up to 2,500 jobs have been put into action by Oakland International The food park would comprise around ...
GS1 US has introduced two new readiness programs to help companies in the food industry implement and improve product traceability processes by leveraging GS1 Standards: the Seafood Traceability Readiness Program and Dairy, Deli, Bakery ...
NASA's 3D food printer? Sure that may remind some of astronaut's ice cream, but it may really not what you think. Within 6 months NASA has plans to print pizzas made from three layers of nutritional powders, oil and water. This has come at ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 9:52:04 AM By Larry Dworkin, director, government relations, PAC-The Packaging Assn. EDITOR'S NOTE: Packaging Digest's recent webcast "Food Safety & ...
Tags: Packaging Materials, Packaging
Nutmeg -The first own-brand clothing range for Morrisons supermarkets has arrived in store. The debut collection features vibrant children’s clothing for ages 0-12 and a range of adult essentials. The new family clothing brand has ...
Tags: Nutmeg Clothing, Apparel
News that Tesco has reported the biggest profits fall in its history is just the latest sign that all is not well in the world of planet retail. Britain's biggest retailer is also ditching plans to develop a number of big stores across the ...
Tags: Food, Drink, Food Manufacture
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 3:38:26 PM Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food ...
Tags: Packaging, Packaging Industry