Tag: Food
Europe: Swedish company uses DuPont Delrin Acetal Grade in food closures
Swedish company WeLoc - Weland M. AB uses DuPont Delrin acetal resin in its new range of food industry bag closures for its suitability...
Asia Pacific: Tetra Pak endorses IDF appeal on food security challenges
Tetra Pak opened the World Dairy Leaders Forum of the International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit 2013 in Yokohama, Japan, in October 2013.
The...
Americas: CTI develops package indicators for safe products
Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI) has developed patent-pending ‘reveal inks’ that provide “return to fridge” reminders to products as milk, yoghurt, salsa, pickles and ketchup.
“Most...
Americas: Infor enhances M3 to deliver high frequency planning for fresh...
Infor said it plans to deliver a range of enhancements to Infor M3, including the development of Infor M3 Fresh Food Planner (FFP) -...
Americas: Mettler Toledo releases white paper on vision inspection for food...
New inspection and compliance mandates under the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act have reformed US food safety laws by...
World: Intertek holds Food Safety Symposium in South Africa
Intertek launched a series of training sessions in South Africa to promote food safety in November 2013.
The training sessions were held in Johannesburg (November...
Europe: FSAI advises against any further folic acid food fortification
At the International Conference on Homocysteine at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), a representative from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said there would...
Americas: Canadian approval of GE salmon egg production draws sharp criticism
The Center for Food Safety has denounced the Canadian government’s decision to approve commercial production of genetically engineered (GE) salmon eggs on Prince Edward’s...
Asia Pacific: Australia approves Life Technologies’ food pathogen detection methods
The Australian Government, Department of Agriculture has approved Life Technologies’ MicroSEQ Real-Time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) workflow as an approved test method to detect...
Asia Pacific: Singapore holds conference on food safety
More than 70 countries, private companies, international organizations, trade associations, academic institutions, and non-governmental groups met in Singapore on December 11, 2013, for the...