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Europe: Apps could boost alcohol sales, says Canadean

The art of pairing food with alcoholic drinks, particularly wine, is a well-established and common practice. Mobile apps, however, are starting to offer a...

Europe: Research body exhibits cleaning robot for beverage factories at show

Fraunhofer IVV Dresden will present a mobile cleaning robot for the beverage industry at the drinktec fair in Munich, Germany from September 11 to...

Europe: Researchers develop bacteria quick test for beer, milk

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam and company GEN-IAL from Troisdorf have developed a polymer powder that significantly...

Asia Pacific: Prepare for change, Linde tells FNI

The Linde Group has launched its Asia Pacific Digitalisation Hub to rapidly identify, develop and trial emergent digital technologies for industrial applications in the...

Americas: Team wins competition for cold boxes for rental

A team of MIT and Harvard University students won the first-ever MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize for smart, modular, refrigerated shipping boxes that...

Americas: Amcor introduces metal-free, high barrier packaging

Amcor introduces AmLite Ultra to its existing line of AmLite, which is metal-free packaging. It offers an even higher barrier, using Amcor’s Ultra SiOx coating,...

Americas: 3M Food Safety’s plate gets validation

The 3M Petrifilm Lactic Acid Bacteria Count Plate has been awarded AOAC Performance-Tested Method for a variety of foods. With this award, the...

Europe: DTU project to study consumer traffic in food court

By monitoring mobile phones searching for Wi-Fi signals, students from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are testing a tracking system to show how...

Asia Pacific: Cornell receives US$4.8M to develop GE eggplant in region

To strengthen capacity to develop and disseminate genetically engineered (GE) eggplant in Bangladesh and the Philippines, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has...

Americas: Researchers discover tomato waste generates electricity

A team of scientists is exploring damaged tomatoes that are unsuitable for sale at the grocery store as a source of energy. Their pilot project...