‘Better value for customers’ as Tesco and Carrefour announce alliance
3 July 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The supermarkets claim the so-called alliance would benefit consumers and suppliers alike.
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Piglet vaccine developed to cut down on use of antibiotics
3 July 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Aside from being a significant source of antibiotic use, piglet scour is estimated to cause annual losses of €1–2 billion globally.
Ireland’s PM opens AllinAll Ingredients’ €5 million R&D facility
26 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Previously based in Parkwest, Dublin, AllinAll Ingredient’s new facility at Rosemount includes a pilot plant which provides the infrastructure and scientific equipment which food scientists use to trial, develop and demonstrate new products.
EU follows through with threat of retaliation in U.S. trade row
22 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The EU's Commissioner for Trade has expressed regret at being put in this position, but said there was 'no other choice'.
FoodBytes! backs startups
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Rabobank, a premier global food and agribusiness bank, is bringing FoodBytes!, its food and agriculture pitch-competition-meets-networking-event, to London for the first time on Thursday 13 September. The event will see 20 startups pitch to an audience of hundreds of investors, industry leading corporates and other startups, in a bid to further innovation…
Consumer group calls for mandatory traffic light labelling
20 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Which? has said Brexit presents an opportunity for the Government to introduce legislation to make the labelling system, which was introduced as an option in 2013, mandatory.
Carbon dioxide crisis: Northern Europe is going flat
20 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Many newspapers reporting on the shortage highlighted the bad timing of the crisis, a season when lager and soft drink consumption is peaking due to weather conditions and a major international sporting tournament.
Robots will support, not replace, growers in the future
20 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
British growers visiting The Netherlands also learned that automating the more challenging aspects of horticulture, such as harvesting non-uniform crops, is still too far in the future to have a realistic impact on production, despite huge leaps in technological development.
European innovation hub CEO calls for stronger research in food
19 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The head of the food arm of an EU network that boosts innovation and entrepreneurship across the bloc has called for stronger research in the food sector.
EU releases common testing method to fight dual quality food
15 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The European Commission has just released a new common methodology for comparing the quality of food products across the EU.
Consumer group unmasks the dirtiest tricks of food labelling
14 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The terms 'artisanal', 'traditional' and 'craft' are being used by unscrupulous food businesses to conjure up an air of quality around mass-produced wares.
Fipronil scandal comes back to life as 73,000 eggs are recalled
13 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Nearly a year on from a European scandal that saw the recall of millions of eggs, fipronil is once again in the headlines.
Starch could replace normal plastic in food packaging
13 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Eventually all petroleum-based material in food packaging will have to be replaced with bio-based material. Research done at Karlstad University shows that a mixture of starch and other polymers forms an equally effective protective barrier.
Irish f&b businesses better prepared for Brexit than other industries
11 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
More than half of Ireland's food and drink businesses are setting up contingency plans for Brexit, with the most common strategy being a focus on markets other than the United Kingdom.
EU remains biggest importer and exporter of agri-food products
8 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
With an agri-food trade value of €255 billion in 2017, the EU has held on to its position as largest global exporter and importer of agri-food products.
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