US-based food firm ReGrained has launched its sustainable SuperGrain+ Bar line made from upcycled ingredients. ReGrained believes that allowing 40% of all food produced to go to waste is unacceptable. To help inspire a food system that ...
Tags: Snack Bars, food
Morrisons is starting a search for the best local food producers who can help to feed the nation, as a new report calls for the UK to be more self-sufficient in food production and new consumer research shows an increasing appetite from ...
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SABIC plans to display an array of innovative packaging products and materials at the K 2016 trade show in Düsseldorf. Despite all available modern technology, about one-third of food produced today for human consumption still is ...
A group of consumers is pledging never to buy Lilydale free-range chickens again after finding out the chickens are fed genetically modified (GM) feed. The issue arose by complaints on social media followed by a response by Lilydale on ...
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has agreed to help Autogrill in reducing food waste and losses. The three-year deal will see FAO provide Autogrill with tools to track and cut food losses and waste throughout its ...
Tags: FAO, food waste, waste reduction
According to a recent report one third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, costing consumers globally more than £259bn per year. In addition, around 200,000 tonnes of the 15 million tonnes of food thrown away in the UK ...
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US senator Kirsten Gillibrand has launched a new bill that would improve the recall process for meat and poultry products, giving the USDA mandatory recall authority over contaminated products. This comes after a new investigation ...
A western Michigan company has recalled turkey lunch meat over possible bacterial contamination. The Michigan Department of Agriculture said that some of the turkey sold at Earl's Meats in Holland tested positive for Listeria, CBS Detroit ...
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The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) today announced a three-year communications effort to educate consumers. The goal is to reach beyond the seed industry to educate the general public about the role of seed and seed improvement in ...
Tags: Seed Improvement, Agriculture
Scotland-based intelligent packaging company Insignia Technologies has launched the Stock Rotation smart label, designed to help reduce food waste and improve food safety at every stage of the food supply chain. The label can be stuck to ...
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Food industry’s trade association, the Grocery Manufacturers Association in the US and other industry groups have filed a suit in federal court to block Vermont’s genetically modified organisms (GMO) labeling law. Filed in the ...
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Bosch Packaging Technology continued growing faster than the packaging machinery industry in 2013, breaking the one-billion-euro sales mark for the first time. “We are exactly on track,” said Friedbert Klefenz, President of ...
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Further to Josh Brooks’ comments in The Answer To The Litter Problem Is Simple: Stop Littering (Packaging News, Monday, January 20) we at LINPAC Packaging would like to add our own views on the issues surrounding litter and the ...
Despite affordable prices and high food quality, the United States tied with Japan for 21st place in a ranking of the world's food systems, according to the international advocacy confederation Oxfam. The report, released Tuesday evening, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Editor's note: One of our Food Safety News Christmas traditions is to annually recognize those who have been "naughty" and those who have been "nice" – from a strictly food safety perspective, of course. This year, we've opted to ...
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