Equipment

Researchers develop tool help farmers make the most of their land

16 August 2017 | By New Food

A professor at the Natural Resources Institute of Finland is developing a tool to help farmers make the best choices for their land.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems

BUCHI Laboratory Equipment

GEA supplies lights-out packing for 200 micron powder in South-East Asia

29 June 2017 | By GEA

GEA has once again supplied its limited intervention powder filling system, RBF-500 Li, to a specialist powdered product application.

Improving oven chain lubrication

27 June 2017 | By Jeffrey E. Turner, Lubrication Engineers

The importance of effective, correct lubrication of high-temperature environments in the food industry...

Health and safety issues when cleaning magnetic separators

20 June 2017 | By Bunting Magnetics

Bunting Magnetics discuss health and safety of cleaning strong Rare Earth magnetic separators, as part of the UK’s Food Safety Week (19 – 23 June 2017)...

Setting the standard for frozen wild seafood

18 June 2017 | By Kendall Whitney - Seafood Producers Cooperative

In Sitka, Alaska - a town of 9000 where 20% of the economy depends directly on wild salmon - there’s a well-known coffee shop decorated with images of fishing. The Highliner Coffee Shop sells a coffee mug printed with a Sanskrit quote: “To judge a thing one must know the…

Validating food safety: the process control measures for making safe food

15 June 2017 | By Larry Keener - President and Chief Executive Officer of International Product Safety Consultants

Phillip Crosby, Joseph Juran and others have estimated that the cost of poor process control (poor quality) can range from 15-40% of business cost1–6. The cost to eliminate a failure (defect) in the customer phase is five times greater than at the development or manufacturing phase. In this article Larry…

Endress+Hauser Group

Clean and smooth: Special hygienic pump enables efficient yoghurt conveyance

26 April 2017 | By NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH

NETZSCH detail new special hygienic pump aimed at enabling efficient yoghurt conveyance.

Uhde High Pressure Technologies GmbH

Vikan UK Ltd

TOMRA Sorting Food

Best practice for crystallisation kinetics measurements via NMR

2 April 2017 | By Gottfried Ziegleder - Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, Isabell Rothkopf - Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, Wolfgang Danzl - Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging

Low resolution or pulsed NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) is an easy and fast way to determine solid fat content (SFC) of cocoa butter and other fats. It can also be used to observe the crystallisation process. However, in literature several ways of sample preparation and handling, especially for crystallisation kinetics…

The EU’s new smartphone

2 February 2017 | By Michel Nielen, Michele Suman

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…