Governance
Regulatory updates on food trade and commercial breakthroughs on product safety.
Asia Pacific: Australian US$12M smokehouse gets resin floor from Flowcrete
The Australian food manufacturing design specialist Wiley specified a high performance resin floor from Flowcrete for a US$12 million smokehouse.
The flooring project at the...
Americas: Ashland releases food packaging coating with matte finish
Ashland has developed Purekote 23589, a coating that can be used safely in food packaging applications regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The...
Americas: Digitizing food safety
iCertainty and Zebra Technologies Corporation release a mobile food safety solution that can be licensed by hospitality establishments worldwide.
Leveraging Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’...
Asia Pacific: Enabling Singaporean companies to internationalize
Singapore's food and beverage (F&B) industry is shifting its focus away from productivity to spotlight on value creation.
Spearheaded by the Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF)...
Europe: Energy drink, alcohol combo worries Irish body
There is a massive increase in the number of products on sale compared with 2002 and some brands containing up to 16 teaspoons of...
Europe: Japan donates to facility on food safety, health standards and trade
The government of Japan has contributed US$49,470 to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) for its activities in 2015.
STDF aims to help...
Europe: FSA commits to cutting down food waste
The Foods Standards Agency (FSA) has pledged its support to UK’s resource efficiency charity WRAP that brings together organizations from across the food system...
Americas: FoodChain ID verifies 35,000th Non-GMO product
FoodChain ID has verified its 35,000th product for the Non-GMO Project’s Product Verification Program.
The company says Non-GMO Project Verified is one of the...
Americas: Genetic ID, Cert ID offer gluten-free verification program
Genetic ID NA and CERT ID have added gluten-free verification services to their portfolio of food safety and food quality testing and certification services....
Europe: Campden BRI, IFT launch exchange competition
Campden BRI and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) have launched The Thesis Video Challenge that offers food technology post-graduate students around the world...