Europe: Bürkert presents no-maintenance inline flowmeter
Bürkert presents FLOWave, a surface acoustic wave (SAW)-based device that allows a flow measurement of liquids without any parts within the tube.
It also eliminates...
Europe: Ketchup leak-proof solution wins Scanstar award
Smurfit Kappa has won first prize at the Scanstar packaging awards for a customized transport solution designed for food company Kavli.
The Scanstar awards are...
Europe: Diet, genetics contribute to cancer, finds research
The PhD project has, among other things, shown which components of the immune system are likely involved in the development of colon cancer, and...
Europe: Method finds vitamin D intake levels in people
Knowledge about the vitamin D level of a population is important for assessing the proportion that is vitamin D deficient or is at risk...
Europe: Grocery shopping are getting smarter, finds survey
About 39% of consumers think that supermarkets in particular will confront them with digital innovations such as automatic scanning and payment of groceries, finds...
Americas: Stevia less bitter than before, finds researchers
Cornell food scientists have reduced the sweetener stevia’s bitter aftertaste by physical – rather than chemical – means, as noted in the Volume 197,...
Europe: DSM symposium focuses on Vitamin E intake, metabolic syndrome
DSM hosted a satellite symposium alongside the 12th European Nutrition Conference FENS recently to discuss the role of micronutrients, including vitamin E and omega-3s,...
World: Global aseptic packaging to grow 24% by 2020, finds report
The world market for aseptically packed products amounted to over 140 billion liters in 330 billion packs during 2014, according to the new Global...
Asia Pacific: NZ research backs belief that tomatoes can be a gout trigger
A group of Otago Department of Biochemistry researchers noticed that a large number of gout sufferers believe tomatoes to be one of these gout...
Americas: School meals have more fiber, less salt, finds CDC report
Most schools in the US are implementing healthy practices to help meet federal school meal standards by offering whole grains, more fruits and vegetables,...