Analytik report on the use of the CPS Instruments Disc Centrifuge in the Surface and Nanoanalysis group at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington, UK. NPL supplies a range of measurement services, reference materials, and ...
Kraft Foods Group has unveiled plans to launch more than 40 new products, marking the first swathe of NPD since the group separated from Mondelez International and became an independent publicly traded group last October. The company ...
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US-based Jamba Juice has unveiled Jamba Kids Meals, its first kids-focused offering. The product was designed in collaboration with the Jamba Healthy Living Council, and is in line with the US Department of Agriculture's MyPlate dietary ...
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Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now ...
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IDG News Service - Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. The visualization monitoring ...
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7-Eleven, a US-based convenience store chain, is restocking its shelves with fresh foods, as part of its efforts to focus on healthier food options and draw calorie conscious consumers. Some of the new products that were launched recently ...
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Sartorius is introducing a new generation of ultrafiltration devices to the market. The disposable Vivaspin Turbo 15 is optimally suited for protein, virus or nanoparticle concentration as well as desalting, dialysis and buffer exchange. It ...
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Scientists have developed a new process to produce a nutritious form of puffed rice that has more proteins and other nutrients compared to commercial puffed rice. Commercial puffed rice is produced through steam extrusion, where an ...
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US-based dairy company Chobani has opened a $450m yogurt manufacturing facility in Twin Falls, Idaho, US. The 1000, 000ft2 facility will enable the company to boost the production of its Chobani branded yogurt and strengthen its ability ...
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From a sustainability standpoint, 2012 might be characterised as a year when the world went backwards - or at a pinch stayed still - but the food industry moved forward. There are plenty of campaigners who would beg to differ on the ...
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Volatility in global commodity markets remained a significant factor for the food industry during 2012. On the one hand, adverse weather conditions hit grain harvests causing prices to spike, while on the other, over-supply has meant cocoa ...
There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. Data for the whole of 2012 has not yet been published ...
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Chobani,America's#1 selling yogurt brand,is pleased to announce several new product innovations set to hit store shelves in January 2013: Chobani Bite-A perfectly portioned,crave-worthy snack that hits the spot.Chobani Champions ...
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GlycoVaxyn and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals(GSK)have signed a research partnership for the development of new bacterial vaccines. The collaboration,planned for three years,will leverage GlycoVaxyn's bio-conjugation technology in developing ...
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The risk of a man developing cancer over his lifetime will increase to one in two by 2027,a new study has suggested. Figures from Cancer Research UK suggest that,within 15 years,50 men out of every 100 are likely to be diagnosed with ...
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