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Lifting the lid on the clean label trend

16 February 2017 | By Lindsey Bagley, BA, CSci, FIFST, Flavour Horizons

Clean label is no longer a trend - it is now the rule and accordingly New Food asks Lindsey Bagley, Flavour Horizons, to delve deeper into one of the industry's definitive trends...

Healthy food? It’s out of reach for most of us

6 February 2017 | By Alex Murtough, Field & Marketing Manager, Oppo

A healthy diet is often financially out of reach for consumers. We spoke to Oppo Ice Cream about why the #DontTaxHealthy campaign is so important...

The EU’s new smartphone

2 February 2017 | By ,

All too often food quality and safety testing is an inefficient, expensive and ineffective process, sometimes unable to ensure food safety for all consumers and unable to prevent major food fraud incidents. Here Michele Suman and Michel Nielen explain why a paradigm shift in quality and safety testing is urgently…

Defining the term ‘natural’ in food and beverage

2 February 2017 | By Petr Menšík| Manager, EU Affairs| ECCO, The European Consulting Company

The 'natural' trend is one of the biggest at present in the food and beverage industry. Just how important is a clear definition of what precisely constitutes natural for the industry? Petr Mensik investigates...

The perils of detecting pathogenic bacteria in foods

1 February 2017 | By

Testing foods for microbes may seem archaic when compared to testing for the presence of chemicals. After all, chemists get to use very expensive grey boxes with blinking lights and labelled with an alphabet soup of acronyms. Not only that, they can sometimes do screens of hundreds of analytes in…

Food Fraud – Are you insured?

1 February 2017 | By

If you’re making a food claim, it is your responsibility to ensure you validate it, says Food Forensics’ Managing Director, Alison Johnson. Many problems centre on claims, often for a premium product. Where premiums are available or supply and demand is out of kilter, the risk of adulteration or substitution…