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Half of Spanish restaurants serving fish that doesn’t match the menu
In the largest study of its kind to have taken place in Spain, researchers have found mislabelled fish in around half of restaurants involved in a survey.
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Report calls on food industry to transform how it feeds livestock
Amidst burgeoning consumer demand for flexitarian products and rising debate on the future of meat, a new report calls on retailers and food service companies to scrutinise what is fed to the livestock – such as pork, chicken as well as farmed fish – used in products they sell.
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Clean Air -The Vital Ingredient to Food and Beverage Manufacturing
29 January 2018 | By Camfil
Air is the only ingredient that is involved in every aspect of Food and Beverage Manufacturing...
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Big data could soon improve decision making for farmers and fishermen
A project co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme is looking at how massive flows of information collected from the soil, the air and satellites can boost agriculture and aquiculture.
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Salmon farmers set up ‘unique fingerprint’ to fight food fraud
A salmon farming company has joined forces with traceability experts, creating unique fingerprints to verify the origin of their fish.
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Almost 60 per cent of popular Chinese cod fillet mislabelled
Lack of clarity in the definition of Xue Yu and difficulty in identifying the fish once it has been prepared may have contributed to widespread mislabelling.
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The Sins of Seafood
4 January 2018 | By Agilent
With seafood and aquaculture being the most valuable and highest traded commodity in the world, it’s an industry which inevitably is the most susceptible to fraud...
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British caterers are selling unsustainable fish, investigation finds
So-called ‘red-rated’ species are on the menu at restaurants and canteens across the UK, prompting a sustainable seafood campaign group to urge companies to rethink their buying policies.
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Scheme to boost seafood safety in Europe gets under way
After a kick-off event in Lisbon, SEAFOODTOMORROW, a project formed of a partnership between 35 Europe-wide organisations, has begun.
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Study examines solutions to antimicrobial resistance in fish farming
Agriculture is one of the fastest growing food sectors but with that growth has come a worrying trend in antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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Nearly half of Canada’s fish mislabelled, report suggests
An investigation has uncovered how food fraud, a criminal industry worth CAD$52 billion worldwide, is affecting seafood in the Canadian capital.
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How a UN project improved the livelihoods of fish-smoking women in Sri Lanka
In a region where many women operate small, labour-intensive and low-output smoked fish businesses, the FAO has stepped in to change the game.
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World-first project sets out to give polystyrene fish boxes a fresh lease on life
A consortium of companies has been granted EU funding to carry out a project that will turn used polystyrene fish boxes into yoghurt pots.
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Food Brexit: More clarity needed
Back in 2002 the then US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was roundly mocked for his infamous “known unknowns and unknown unknowns speech.” Though most people could understand what Rumsfeld was trying to say, the public simply wasn’t ready for the way he said it. It turns out that the…
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Get set for Brexit – see the full line up for Food Brexit, chaired by the John Pienaar
With less than a week to go, time is running out to catch food business experts putting their heads together over the challenges of Brexit.
