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23 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Twenty-six partners from 12 European countries and China will work towards the REFRESH project's goal of reducing food waste across Europe by 30% by 2025...
18 August 2015 | By Victoria White
A scientist has developed an inexpensive, simple and easily transportable nanotechnology-based method to purify drinking water...
7 July 2015 | By Victoria White
A new study proposes a novel nanotechnology-based strategy to improve water filtration and could have important implications for desalination processes...
29 June 2015 | By Victoria White
The Consumer Goods Forum (the CGF) has agreed to halve food waste within the operations of its 400 retailer and manufacturers members by 2025...
8 May 2015 | By Victoria White
FAO's José Graziano da Silva today welcomed a commitment by the G20 agriculture ministers to meet global food security and nutrition needs...
16 September 2014 | By Hormel Foods
Century Foods International of Hormel Foods Corporation was selected as the company’s 2013 Environmental Sustainability Best of the Best champion for reaching a recycling rate of 93 percent and achieving zero percent waste to landfill status at all four of their plant locations last October...
18 October 2013 | By Nestlé
This means that no factory waste will go to landfill or be incinerated without energy being recovered from the process...
1 August 2013 | By Golley Slater PR Wales
Food & drink businesses have shown their support for a new online waste management system...
4 June 2013 | By Nestlé
Nestlé is celebrating the theme of this year’s World Environment Day by participating in the ‘Think.Eat.Save’ campaign...
4 June 2013 | By General Mills
General Mills was named a founding partner of the U.S. Food Waste Challenge...
27 February 2013 | By David Minsk, President US Sales, Hanna Instruments
David Minsk, President of US Sales at Hanna Instruments, highlights the fact that the company is vertically integrated, with everything manufactured internally...
11 January 2013 | By Anke Fendler, Environmental & Innovative Technologies Specialist, Campden BRI
Water is an essential resource for food and drink production. With water scarcity worldwide a serious concern, there is a need for industry to address the impact of its water consumption and consider ways in which it can optimise water use in the future whilst ensuring the safety and wholesomeness…
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…
13 May 2011 | By Fred van de Velde, Group Leader Ingredient Technology, and Arno Alting, Project Manager Applied Protein Technology, and Laurice Pouvreau, Project Manager Vegetable – Derived Ingredients, NIZO Protein Centre, NIZO food research
Due to an ever-growing population, proteins extracted from existing agricultural side-streams are of high interest for food processors. RuBisCO, being the most abundant protein in the world, is a very good candidate for food applications. However, up to now, the greenish colour associated with RuBisCO preparations made consumer acceptance very…
30 June 2010 | By Andy Wales, Global Head of Sustainable Development, SABMiller
As one of the world’s largest brewers, with brewing interests and distribution agreements across six continents, SABMiller takes its responsibilities seriously, especially when it comes to sustainable development. In 2009, the company announced its intentions to reduce its fossil fuel emissions on its beers by fifty per cent per litre…
