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Industry 4.0 and the food and beverage industry

1 September 2017 | By

Industry 4.0 is the development of manufacturing technologies that enable higher levels of interconnectivity, leading to greater communication between machines and decentralised/local processing of data. The result is smart factories in which machinery is increasingly autonomous, with the ability to manage its own service and maintenance requirements and adapt instantly…

Origin – what do we really mean?

1 September 2017 | By

Not for the first time, issues surrounding authenticity have hit the headlines. The European Commission’s Food Fraud Network dealt with 156 cases in 2016, compared with 108 in 2015 and a mere 60 in 2014 and recently the founder of the UK’s largest supplier of supermarket chicken has been called…

Food Brexit: the unsolved issues

1 September 2017 | By

Ask him to predict the precise ramifications of Brexit and Nostradamus himself would have smashed his crystal ball, hurled his tarot cards at the wall and spent the rest of his days deliberately not looking at a single palm. Nevertheless, a recent paper published by researchers at three leading UK…

Country Profile: United Kingdom

23 August 2017 | By

In this country profile we explore how Brexit could affect the UK farming sector and what's in store at the UK's main event for processing and packaging...

Beverages In-Depth Focus 2017

21 August 2017 | By

In this in-depth focus: Choosing a healthy juice, the future of UK wine and the effects of the new ISO 16890 testing assessment standard...

Passing the colour test

20 August 2017 | By

We’re in the middle of a sea-change in attitudes to colours in food and beverages. It’s no longer enough for products to look good — customers now demand that products should be produced safely and naturally and the colours that go into them are no exception. Christiane Lippert, Head of…

ISO 16890 – an explanation

20 August 2017 | By

As of January 2017, the new test standard ISO 16890 for filter testing and assessment replaced the previous standards EN 779 (Europe) and ASHRAE 52.2 (USA). It will have sole validity from the middle of 2018 onwards. Though the primary impact of ISO 16890 will be on air quality, this…

The future of UK wine

19 August 2017 | By

At times, British and English wine has had a distinctly poor reputation, but this has not always been the case. With the wine market growing considerably and English wines scooping international awards for taste and quality, New Food spoke to UK Wine Producers to find out why domestic produce is…