This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries, while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses - raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees. Here, we capture a flavour of ...
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This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries,while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses?raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees.Here,we capture a flavour of the ...
Tags: beef, lamb, BSE, food exports
British poultry processors are missing a trick by paying for disposal of chicken feet,which could be exported to China where retailers such as Tesco are struggling to meet demand. So wrote environment secretary Owen Paterson in his online ...
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Nutri-Grain debuts Fruit Crunch granola bars made with whole grain and real fruit New@Special KUS snacks help you stay on your weight management track:Honey Barbecue cracker chips and 100-calorie Blondie Bites@Pringles re-launches ...
Tags: Kellogg, Pringles, snacks, Grain brands
Once the lonely crusade of astronomers, the dark-sky movement is finding increasingly vocal support in the lighting community; and is gaining regulatory traction with the sustainability and conservation movements. Plants and animals, ...
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OJ-Bio has secured grants from the UK government's Biomedical Catalyst to further develop its hand-held flu diagnosis device. The device, which is developed under the company's £1m ($1.5m) project, features bio-sensor materials with ...
Tags: flu diagnosis device, diagnosis device, hand-held flu diagnosis device
Weaver Nut,a US-based distributor of Candies,Dried Fruits,Nuts,Chocolates,Coffees,Teas,and Bulk Foods,has launched wholesale Chia seeds and bulk Chia seeds. According to the company,the Chia seeds are a healthy supplement,providing energy ...
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic illness that affects the lungs and digestive systems of 30,000 adults and children in the United States today.To combat this statistic,a local father created and just today launched a phone app to help him ...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, genetic illness, phone app, Jason Phipps
This week in kitsch lighting is the Amazing Jellyfish Lamp.Jellyfish are the most abundant species on the planet.They contain GFP,a bioluminescent protein that allows them to glow in the dark.It is mainly used as a defense mechanism by ...
Tags: jellyfish, lights&lighting, GFP, green lighting
StarKist has launched a line of single-serve tuna pouches, StarKist Tuna Creations, in the US. The 2.6 ounce portions come in four flavours: herb and garlic, hickory smoked, sweet and spicey and zesty lemon pepper. The company said that ...
Tags: tuna, tuna pouches, herb and garlic, hickory smoked, sweet and spicey
RayBiotech, a developer of antibody and protein array technologies, has introduced a peptoid drug candidate and diagnostic ligand discovery service program. The new service platform, which is aimed at the identification of novel ligands ...
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Glass is strong enough for so much: Windshields, buildings and many other things that need to handle high stress without breaking. But scientists who look at the structure of glass strictly by the numbers believe some of the latest methods ...
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Facebook engineer Sean Lynch has developed a monitoring tool that uses heatmapping to gather data to spot problems and patterns in its IT infrastructure. Lynch revealed the datacentre heatmapping tool on his blog. Lynch and other ...
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The omniscient Wikipedia tells us that a'refrigerator is a device that is similar to a refrigerator',the only difference being that the former maintains a temperature below the freezing point of water whereas the latter maintains a ...
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Bruker has launched a new software solution, BioPharmaCompass 1.1 to encompass the complete biopharmaceutical characterization challenge, which includes glycoforms, impurities and modifications. The software allows biotech customers to ...
Tags: software solution, biopharmaceutical characterization, mass spectrometry