Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Global Agri, Food & Health Updates - 30April'15 !

1. Drinking fruit in liquid form is trending, but there are many challenges when it comes to processing beverage particles. Pulp damage, ripeness, sugar content, pumps, and heat exchangers; all affect the process and final product.

2. Following successful pilot projects with Kellogg’s, Meadow Vale Foods and food processors ABP, Oxifree anti-corrosion resin has signed an agreement as the official supplier for Kellogg’s UK.

3. CSB-System has partnered with Freshway Foods to monitor its raw materials and ingredients throughout the process chain, to control costs, increase efficiencies, maintain quality and provide full traceability.

4. Cargill has been fined £600,000 following the death of a lorry driver who was buried under a mound of soya meal.

6. The world is getting fatter and bringing with it a host of health problems that are bursting public healthcare purse strings. FoodNavigator & NutraIngredients gets to the guts of an issue where real food innovation can offer so much.

7. A pioneering salt reduction scheme was derailed by the UK government leading to 6000 preventable deaths, says Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).

8. Food safety legislation and standards in both the US and the European Union are now becoming blueprints for similar regulations in emerging markets, such as China, both to improve safety for local consumers and to facilitate exports to Europe and North America.

9. The Western European packaged food market has grown 5% since 2009, with chilled pasta, sustainable foods and frozen yoghurt leading the way, according to Euromonitor International – but Europe is still a divided market.

10. India’s food minister believes the country would be a global food processing powerhouse were it not for its troubled supply chain.

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