25 May Date markings on SA food labels – super-useful guide

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Among the plethora of labelling issues and regulations that appear to be unclear, date marking is one that comes to the fore in many countries, including South Africa.

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24 May Tiger Brands committing R100m to invest in food and beverage startups

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Tiger Brands, SA's largest food player, is launching a venture capital fund to invest in food and beverage startups. CEO Noel Doyle made the announcement when the group presented its interim results on Thursday 20 May.

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20 May New listeria discovery prompts call for changes to food safety testing and regulations

Posted at 11:23h in Food Science, Technology and Ingredients Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments

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Scientists from Cornell University have discovered five previously unknown species of listeria, a pathogenic bacteria known to cause food poisoning and in some cases lead to death.

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05 May Investors’ food frenzy after a decade of subdued IPO activity

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The Swedish oat milk brand, Oatly, is the fifth food brand to recently announce plans to go public, after six others made debuts on the public markets in the past 12 months – more food activity in the markets than the entire decade before it!

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04 May SA’s fantastic blueberry growth story

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In four years, blueberry production in SA grew sixfold and jobs in the sector grew eightfold. Its industry body, BerriesZA, aims to triple exports - but it needs access to the lucrative Chinese market.

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04 May Calls to halt live animal exports – featuring appalling treatment of animals and people

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The continuation of live animal exports is being challenged here and throughout the world, with the recognition that its commercial value is blighted by gross animal welfare and human rights violations.

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04 May New food science/tech resources from Tate & Lyle

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Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of food and beverage solutions and ingredients, has launched Stabiliser University, a new online modular course designed to help formulators and food scientists solve even the toughest stabiliser formulation challenges.

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04 May Chatting to Tim Noakes: tweaking the LCHF diet, Covid-19 and his new book

Posted at 10:43h in Latest SA News, LCHF eating by Brenda 0 Comments

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Tim Noakes needs no introduction... listen to him on this podcast talking his new book, some modifications to his LCHF theory and the impact of Covid-19 on diabetics and the obese.

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04 May US declares sesame a major food allergen

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US President Joe Biden has signed legislation declaring sesame a major food allergen, meaning all products that use sesame seeds or derivatives will have to be explicitly labelled after Jan 1, 2023. 

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03 May Alternative pet foods follow lead of new human foods

Posted at 15:18h in Sustainability and Green Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments

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Ponder this: If our canine and feline friends made up their own country, they’d be the world’s fifth-largest consumer of meat among the league of nations. One maker, Because Animals, is extracting cells from mice and rabbits — close to what dogs and cats might enjoy in the wild — and growing them in a bioreactor.

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03 May Afriplex launches into alternative dairy space for SA

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Paarl-based Afriplex, supplier of innovative functional ingredients, has taken a step into the alternative dairy space, offering clients multiple possibilities for novel NPD.

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21 Apr Introducing the shelf-stable French Fry

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Here's a fascinating food processing innovation.... a US startup called Farther Farms that's converting traditionally refrigerated and frozen foods to shelf-stable, via a new type of pasteurisation.

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21 Apr Sugar reduction tech launches in consumer spreads

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Israeli sugar-tech company, DouxMatok, has released its first direct-to-consumer product featuring its Incredo Sugar, a sugar-based solution that enables 30 to 50 percent sugar reduction. 

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21 Apr SA’s foodbev hospitality sector is still staggering – but fast food is recovering

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The restaurant and bar sector has been absolutely slammed by the Covid-19 lockdowns and draconian policies such as prohibition. The data on income generated by the sector make for reading so grim it could drive one to drink. But takeaways and fast food are showing signs of recovery.

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20 Apr More plastic packaging transformation for Woolies

Posted at 19:02h in Latest Packaging News, Latest SA News by Brenda 0 Comments

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Woolworths has announced that an additional 50 stores plus two new stores will be single-use plastic shopping bag free by the end of April and has replaced plastic packaging with kraft packaging for popular ‘Ripe and Ready’ avocados which equates to an annual plastic saving of 35 - 40 tons.

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20 Apr Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk

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A century ago, food was industrialized. Since then, new styles of agriculture and food production have written a new chapter of human history, one that’s driving both climate change and global health crises. Best-selling American food writer, Mark Bittman, offers a panoramic view of the story and explains how we can rescue ourselves from the modern wrong turn.

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20 Apr Paving the way to turn off the brain’s ‘hunger switch’

Posted at 18:21h in Health and Nutrition Stuff by Brenda 0 Comments

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New Israeli research may pave the way for drugs that “turn off the hunger switch” in the human brain with minimal side effects, scientists say.

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13 Apr UK’s new Superloaf – dubbed ‘Bread as good as veg’

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Packing in 12 high-fibre, plant-based ingredients and no additives, Modern Baker’s Superloaf claims to be as healthy as eating vegetables, and has won the praise of ‘gut guru’, Dr Tim Spector.

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05 Apr Bee-less honey coming soon? US start-up MeliBio creating a buzz

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MeliBio, a California-based start-up making real honey without bees, expects to have its first product on the market in late 2021.

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05 Apr Tidying up HACCP – chatting to Entecom’s food safety ace, Rolf Uys

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HACCP can be scary, and Entecom understands this. In this new podcast series, well known food safety expert, Rolf Uys, tackles the struggles and obstacles that food companies might face, and how to fix them.

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