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Liz Colebrook is Mars' Global Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Director of Food Safety; here she explores the meaning of food integrity, how Mars is driving towards a safer, healthier, more sustainable world, and how industry must progress as a whole.
Mercedes Groba, Innovation Programme Manager at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in Food, discusses the innovative solutions that will play an integral role in addressing the challenges of sustainability.
According to research from the Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business, opening more supermarkets could see less food being spoiled as people purchase food more frequently in smaller quantities.
The grants are said to be the latest step in the government’s drive to reduce food waste in the UK by 20 percent by 2025 and form part of a wider £15 million scheme to specifically address surplus food from the retail and manufacturing sectors.
Interested to learn more about sustainable practice? Want to know more about the innovations that could help us face this humongous challenge? Then listen to our Editor's interview with expert, Dr Wayne Martindale!
A report from WRAP has revealed that between 2015 and 2018 food waste dropped by seven percent per person in the UK, but the research charity has warned there is still work to be done.
The 'champions', which already include the likes of PepsiCo and Kellogg's, are US businesses and organisations that have committed to reduce food loss and waste in their own operations by 50 percent by the year 2030.
According to the FAO, one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted. Our editor speaks to the founder of Too Good to Go about how it's helping to improve this startling statistic.
The investment will allegedly fund 85 independent research projects that aim to reduce water usage, achieve zero waste and open new opportunities for innovation.
The European Commission has authorised the use of the ingredients in Apeel’s plant-derived coating, allowing for EU expansion.
Researchers from Santa Clara University set out to examine farm-level food loss-crops that are not harvested and found that 33.7 percent of crop yields were lost.
Ahead of Food Integrity 2020, New Food spoke to Dr Gavin Milligan about how innovative new products, lifestyle changes and better-quality information can all contribute to meeting sustainability goals.
Breweries in the EU are reported to throw out around 3.4 million tonnes of unspent grain every year, weighing the equivalent of 500,000 elephants.
FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu has said that raising awareness, a greater focus on innovation and further investment are all needed to reduce food waste and eliminate global hunger.
David Haley, Visiting Professor at Zhongyuan University of Technology, and Vincent Walsh, Senior Food Tech Specialist, break down the definition of sustainability and consider what challenges the food sector might be confronted with in the future.
