Nestlé undergoes digital core upgrade to enable AI and automation at scale
23 October 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Nestlé has completed the first phase of its global digital core upgrade, enabling AI and automation at scale to transform operations.
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23 October 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Nestlé has completed the first phase of its global digital core upgrade, enabling AI and automation at scale to transform operations.
23 October 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Walmart and Avery Dennison launch first-to-market RFID labelling in meat, bakery and deli to cut waste, improve freshness and boost efficiency.
22 October 2025 | By Maria Villablanca
Few industries feel disruption as sharply as food and beverage. In this expert feature, global supply chain influencer Maria Villablanca explores how digital transformation - from blockchain to AI - is driving greater food and beverage supply chain resilience, helping businesses build transparency, predict risk and safeguard production in an…
22 October 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Ahead of the festive season, Mondelēz and Tesco are trialling 300,000 Cadbury Heroes paper tubs in a major sustainable packaging initiative.
21 November 2022 | By New Food
In this special episode of Food to Go, the New Food team interview Dr Cassandre Juzaitis-Boelter, Sales Applications Specialist for Bruker Scientific about the perks of FT-NIR in ensuring food and drink quality.
22 October 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Morrisons has pulled Savers Salad Cream from shelves after undeclared egg and mustard were found, sparking nationwide recall.
5 March 2012 | By Anett Winkler and Dirk Nikoleski, EHEDG Members
Water is used in food processing for many different purposes. Among other applications it is used in direct contact with the food or food contact surfaces (as an ingredient, steam, etc) or indirectly as a processing aid. Therefore, water quality used in a food manufacturing plant has to be managed…
19 March 2018 | By Fera Science Limited
Quality control (QC) in food testing laboratories is often thought of as an essential burden. A lot of time and effort (and money) is put into establishing QC mechanisms, especially for accreditation purposes. In fact quality control should be built into your everyday routine and have minimal adverse impact on…
6 September 2012 | By Stephen J. James & Christian James, Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
Freezing is a well-established food preservation process that produces high quality nutritious foods that offer the advantage of a long storage life. However, freezing is not suitable for all foods and freezing does cause physical and chemical changes in many foods that are perceived as reducing the quality of the…
23 June 2014 | By Patricia Aron, Senior Hops Chemist, MillerCoors
The educated beer consumer’s heightened expectations have changed the game in terms of beer quality. Today’s beer drinkers are more sophisticated, fickle and less forgiving when it comes to beer flavour. Consequently, flavour instability is now one of the most critical quality problems faced by the brewing industry. Achieving beer…
6 March 2012 | By Lilia Ahrné, Coordinator, ProPraline and Director Process and Technology Development at SIK – Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology
The ProPraline project is now finalised and after three years of intensive research, the project has delivered a number of solutions. Four booklets containing scientific information to help SMEs to produce pralines of high quality and extended shelf-life have been developed during the project and are now available to download…
4 September 2007 | By Roland Ernest Poms, ICC – International Association for Cereal Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria – Coordinator of MoniQA
MoniQA is an EU funded Network of Excellence (NoE), which works towards harmonisation of analytical methods for monitoring food quality and safety in the food supply chain. The MoniQA NoE (Contract N0. FOOD-CT-2006-36337) is coordinated by the Vienna-based ICC (International Association for Cereal Science and Technology) and is set to…
5 September 2012 | By Maria I. Gil, Ana Allende and Maria V. Selma, Research Group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, CEBAS-CSIC and Mieke Uyttendaele, Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation, Ghent University
Fresh leafy vegetables (e.g. lettuce, spinach, escarole, cabbage and other baby leaves used in salad mixes) are an important part of a healthy diet. Global consumption levels are expected to increase in the future. However, due to recent disease outbreaks and rapid alerts attributed to fresh produce, concerns have emerged…
20 August 2020 | By Gizem Kayar
Quality expert Gizem Kayar explains the role of a Quality Assurance manager and the challenges industry face.
4 April 2019 | By Hygiena
Anecdotes from craft brewing booms of the past (c.1997) identify poor quality as a root problem leading to market contraction. While overall quality is shaped by a bevy of factors (ingredients, process, tools, and sheer artistry of the brewmaster), one common element of outstanding craft brewers who survived the bust…