1. PROCESS EXPO, North America’s largest trade show fully focused on food and beverage processing and packaging, will be held September 15-18, 2015, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois.
2. Chemically modified carbon nanotubes to detect biogenic amines from decaying meat have been created by chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
3. Agilent Technologies has launched a quadrupole-time of flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometry system for applications including food safety and pharmaceuticals.
4. Food is more important than celebrities and fashion for younger consumers, but the sector has yet to take advantage of its growing audience, new research has claimed.
5. Awareness should be increased about listeriosis from RTE foods in risk groups, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
6. Eye Vision Technology (EVT) has launched Egg Counter, an EyeVision software to separate and count eggs on a production line.
7. Organic crops generally have lower yields than conventional crops – but that’s not the only way to measure their potential to feed the world.
8. 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.
9. The use of certain biotechnologies could support organic production in the future – although the currently approved ‘cross-species’ GM technologies are the biggest threat to the organic food system.
10. As per a renowed US economist and social theorist, Europe needs to talk about moving down the food chain to feed people more efficiently and beat climate change.
11. US retail sales of Matcha green tea powder surged 54.9%* in 2014, while sales of ready-to-drink products leaped up $253.1% (albeit from a small base), reveals a new report arguing that the bright green, nutrient-packed tea is “not a passing fad, but a major trend with long term viability
12. Over 32,000 people have signed a petition to remove Protein World’s weight loss pill advertisements asking: ‘Are you beach body ready?
13. Rising temperatures could seriously change where cocoa is grown in the next half-century and global output could be threatened if the chocolate industry does nothing to protect its key crop.
14. More than a third of Russians (37%) have noticed that some of their favourite brands are missing from store shelves following food sanctions – compared to about a quarter (26%) six months ago, according to market research organisation Romir.
15. The Blue Sky Strategic Australian Agriculture Fund will invest $300m across agriculture infrastructure, agribusiness private equity and water entitlements offering an IRR of 12%-15%, targeting the A$1.9 trillion local superannuation industry.
2. Chemically modified carbon nanotubes to detect biogenic amines from decaying meat have been created by chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
3. Agilent Technologies has launched a quadrupole-time of flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometry system for applications including food safety and pharmaceuticals.
4. Food is more important than celebrities and fashion for younger consumers, but the sector has yet to take advantage of its growing audience, new research has claimed.
5. Awareness should be increased about listeriosis from RTE foods in risk groups, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
6. Eye Vision Technology (EVT) has launched Egg Counter, an EyeVision software to separate and count eggs on a production line.
7. Organic crops generally have lower yields than conventional crops – but that’s not the only way to measure their potential to feed the world.
8. 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.
9. The use of certain biotechnologies could support organic production in the future – although the currently approved ‘cross-species’ GM technologies are the biggest threat to the organic food system.
10. As per a renowed US economist and social theorist, Europe needs to talk about moving down the food chain to feed people more efficiently and beat climate change.
11. US retail sales of Matcha green tea powder surged 54.9%* in 2014, while sales of ready-to-drink products leaped up $253.1% (albeit from a small base), reveals a new report arguing that the bright green, nutrient-packed tea is “not a passing fad, but a major trend with long term viability
12. Over 32,000 people have signed a petition to remove Protein World’s weight loss pill advertisements asking: ‘Are you beach body ready?
13. Rising temperatures could seriously change where cocoa is grown in the next half-century and global output could be threatened if the chocolate industry does nothing to protect its key crop.
14. More than a third of Russians (37%) have noticed that some of their favourite brands are missing from store shelves following food sanctions – compared to about a quarter (26%) six months ago, according to market research organisation Romir.
15. The Blue Sky Strategic Australian Agriculture Fund will invest $300m across agriculture infrastructure, agribusiness private equity and water entitlements offering an IRR of 12%-15%, targeting the A$1.9 trillion local superannuation industry.
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