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Americas: RGF upgrades food safety system

RGF Environmental Group continues to add upgrades and customers for its patented photohydroionization (PHI) Food Surface Sanitation Tunnel Treatment System for processors. First introduced in...

Europe: ABB releases safety device for access into hazardous areas

ABB has designed a three-position device for food and beverage applications for operators to safely undertake production inspections. They can use the...

Americas: Waters unveils software to detect food fraud

Waters Corporation introduces its new LiveID Software for near-instantaneous, direct-from-sample measurement and classification of food products including meat and crops by Waters’ quadrupole, time-of-flight...

Americas: Metal detector scans with five frequencies

Thermo Fisher Scientific releases a metal detection platform that rapidly scans up to five frequencies to help food and consumer goods manufacturers find ferrous,...

World: Frutarom shares on decontaminating natural herbal extracts

Frutarom Health BU has launched the EFLA HyperPure natural ingredients in response to new regulations by the European Union to prevent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons...

Europe: Antimicrobial resistance research wins award

Professor Frank Møller Aarestrup from the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has been awarded the Nils Foss Excellence Prize 2017 worth EUR...

Americas: FDA clears Innate potato varieties for consumption

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finds the first generation of Innate potato varieties is as safe and nutritious as conventional potatoes. The J....

Americas: Extending product shelf life with active and intelligent packaging

Thanks to their unique multi-functionality, active and intelligent packaging (A&IP) features are already in use for many consumer packaged goods. In particular, the food...

Europe: Cargill to use SonoSteam process to reduce Campylobacter levels in plant

Cargill will introduce the SonoSteam process at its Hereford primary chicken processing plant in the UK, as part of its farm-to-fork action plan to...

Asia Pacific: Packaging chemicals-food risk is low, states study

A three-year project looking at the risk of chemicals migrating from packaging into food has determined that the chemicals investigated are not a concern...