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New Food speaks to…Jamie Crummie
New Food editor Bethan Grylls speaks to Too Good to Go Co-founder Jamie Crummie about food waste and how the food and beverage industry can tackle it - live from The Food Safety Conference 2022.
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FareShare: An amazing organisation doing amazing work
Chris Elliott takes a moment to reflect on two of the key themes of the Food Safety Conference – food security and accessibility – and shines a light on the excellent work of FareShare in helping to create a fairer and less wasteful industry.
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More Brits than ever are eating expired food
A consumer research report has revealed a rise in the number of Britons eating food past its expiration date.
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One in three people bin a bagful of shopping each week
A WRAP research report reveals that nearly half of respondents throw away as much food or more than they did this time last year.
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Circular food economy: A solution to the climate crisis
With fewer than 50 days to go until COP27, all eyes are on Egypt, with world leaders getting ready to gather to discuss and evaluate their progress on climate action and limiting global temperature increase to 1.5C.
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Global food bank network prevents 1.7 million tons of CO2e
A study by the Global FoodBanking Network highlights the importance of redistributing food surplus food to cut damaging carbon emissions.
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Where might the future of food be heading?
With the ever-increasing advancements of technological capabilities, the food industry is expecting some exciting changes in the near future. Here’s what New Food learnt at London’s Future-Food Tech event…
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Sainsbury’s opens walk-in freezer to help combat waste
Sainsfreeze, a new walk-in freezer concept store from Sainsbury’s, looks to show customers how to freeze and save surplus food.
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New EU policy forces South Africa to make distribution changes
Copa and Cogeca supports new measure enforcing cold treatments to protect citrus fruits shipped from South African to Europe from false codling moths, but calls for the regulation to be expanded further.
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Promising opportunities for fish by-products
Today, the world discards over 10 million metric tons of perfectly good fish by-product. Thor Sigfússon proffers achievable ways to solve this waste problem by building a more resilient seafood industry through a circular system.
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Sainsbury’s ditches best before dates to eliminate food waste
Leading UK supermarket gives customers more autonomy by removing hundreds of best before dates in an effort to save up to 17 million food products.
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Asda axes best before dates on fruit and vegetables
Asda has become the latest supermarket to remove best before dates on certain products in a bid to reduce food waste both in store and in consumer homes.
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Waitrose joins growing list of UK supermarkets scrapping ‘best befores’
British supermarket Waitrose has announced its intention to remove best before dates on almost 500 products this September in a bid to tackle food waste in the home.
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M&S removes best before dates from fruit and vegetables
M&S says removing the best before dates on certain fruits and vegetables will help the retailer achieve its goal of cutting food waste.
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The overarching issue of food waste
Christina Bauer Plank, Global Vice President of Hellmann’s & Dressings, Unilever, analyses the role of businesses to drive positive change and help consumers reduce household food waste
