Governance
Regulatory updates on food trade and commercial breakthroughs on product safety.
Asia Pacific: Hanovia debuts PureLine UVEO Technology in China
Hanovia announces the Asia-Pacific launch of its PureLine Ultraviolet Energy Optimised (UVEO) disinfection technology at the China International Beverage Industry Exhibition on Science and...
Europe: German company, hospital to develop human-milk-oligosaccharides to prevent Norovirus
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany will support the development of human-milk-oligosaccharides by Jennewein Biotechnologie for the prevention of Norovirus within...
Europe: UK authority releases report in food viruses
The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) has published its extensive review of viruses in the food chain.
The report, which is...
Asia Pacific: Plastic in nugget not from Cargill facilities after internal investigation
After an exhaustive investigation, Cargill says it is confident the blue, plastic foreign material recently reported in one McDonald's Chicken Nugget in Japan did...
Europe: FSA says restrictions on raw milk should stay
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board says the current restrictions on the sale of raw milk should remain in place, following the conclusion of...
Americas: Mettler-Toledo Garvens launches series of checkweighers
Mettler-Toledo Garvens launches the C Series of checkweighers with three main product lines. The turnkey C31 StandardLine has been designed especially for packages weighing...
Asia Pacific: Singapore launches Lab-on-Chip application to detect poultry diseases
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) and Veredus Laboratories have launched VereVet, a portable Lab-on-Chip application that can detect, differentiate and identify...
Asia Pacific: CHEP, China release FMCG supply chain report
CHEP and the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC) have launched the China FMCG Industry Supply Chain Logistics Research Report.
The report...
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...
Europe: IP, compliance important in natural ingredients, Frutarom tells FNI
Frutarom Switzerland Ltd. Health Business Unit has named Dr Matthias H. Kreuter as its new global chief scientific officer (CSO) from January 1, 2015.
Dr...