Equipment

Drones and 3D imaging could help farmers measure crop height

24 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Researchers in the USA have found a way to replace intensive manual measurement with 3D imaging captured by drones.

Issue #5 2017 – Digital Version

20 October 2017 | By New Food

In this issue: an in-depth look at food analysis, consumer expectations about food fraud, the perks of buying local produce, food hygiene's dirty secret, and much more...

Formaldehyde vapour treatment may soon be a thing of the past in egg hatcheries

17 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Researchers have tested an alternative method to sanitise hatching eggs without using carcinogenic formaldehyde.

Three quarters of world’s honey contaminated with bee-killing chemical

5 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

A two-year study tested honey samples from all over the world for neonics - and found them in abundance...

Japan-American collaboration automates soybean-quality evaluation

5 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Until now, farmers have had to inspect the quality of soybean harvested, bringing work to an abrupt halt. But thanks an international research collaboration, all that seems set to change.

YouGov poll suggest recycled bottles are favoured by consumers

26 September 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

The research suggests consumers are becoming more aware of sustainable packaging as they call for more packaging to both be recyclable and made from recycled material.

Webinar Review: Scanning GC-Orbitrap

29 August 2017 | By Dominic Fisher | Senior Applications Specialist | Thermo Fisher Scientific

In the fourth instalment of Thermo Fisher’s webinar series, senior applications specialist Dominic Fisher holds a Q&A on the Orbitrap GC-MS.

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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…