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With relish: consumers happily eat food made from waste ingredients
Food waste is a global problem. Every year, humans throw away 1.3 billion tonnes, a third of our production. One solution may have emerged – feeding it back to us.
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Supermarket chain fights against waste by selling food after best before
Food waste is an ever-growing concern throughout the world. Today, the East of England Co-op has announced it will roll out an initiative across its stores that it estimates could save at least two metric tonnes from being wasted every year.
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Little blue fridge part of guidelines to slash Britain’s food waste
More than two million tonnes of food are thrown out every year in the UK. A third of this waste is triggered because of how shoppers interpret existing date labels. Now a new labelling system hopes to change that.
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Waste product turned into alcoholic beverage in world first
A food production waste product has been turned into an alcoholic drink which scientists described as surprisingly tasty.
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‘Shadow food economy’ means British consumer pays twice
A new report by the Sustainable Food Trust has found that UK citizens pay twice as much for food than they realise due to hidden externalities of production.
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Whitepaper: Global food integrity issues and emerging risks
How safe is your food? When they expect the world...
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Waste and Sustainability In-Depth Focus
In this In-Depth Focus: the enormous quantity of food that is wasted around the globe and how the United Nations is proposing a worldwide commitment to zero tolerance for food loss and waste.
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Issue #5 2017 – Digital Version
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...
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Sustainable packaging to attract consumers in 2018
A study on consumer trends has pegged sustainable packaging as one to watch as food manufacturers move into the new year.
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Can food waste end world hunger?
There are currently over 800 million chronically undernourished people in the world. Yet we produce 4 billion tonnes of food every year, more than enough to feed the 7.5 billion people who live on the planet. Unfortunately, a large proportion of all food produced never reaches a human mouth: it…
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EU and UN team up to fight antimicrobial resistance and food waste
EU and Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations join forces to take action on food waste and antimicrobial resistance.
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The Hunger Games
During the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), called for widespread improvements to the food industry, especially with regard to waste and the supply chain...
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Smart packaging trend provokes speculation of growth in sachet market
A taste for greener, smarter and less wasteful packaging is spurring the sachet market - especially in the Asia Pacific region.
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Tesco to publish food waste data in a bid to tackle the global crisis
Addressing food-industry leaders in New York, Tesco chief Dave Lewis reinforced his company's commitment to bringing food waste down to sustainable levels.
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Major companies lend their voices to call for standardised labelling
Kellogg, Walmart and Tesco representatives joined forces in New York to extol the virtues of an international labelling system.
