27 Mar Why is tomato sauce so hard to pour?
Ever go to pour ketchup on your fries...and nothing comes out? Or the opposite happens, and your plate is suddenly swimming in a sea of red? Here's the physics behind this frustrating phenomenon.
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27 Mar New way to clean produce without water
Clēan Works is a Canadian company that has developed a new innovative technology that cleans food without using water. It claims the process represents "a paradigm shift in the way food products are cleaned".
27 Mar Agrifood tech innovators: cream of the 2019 crop
The Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards recognise the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward. Here are the winners, and nominees, in this year's awards... [Astonishing innovation! Ed]
27 Mar UK meat industry’s study shows additives do not prevent botulism
A bombshell internal report written for the British meat industry reveals nitrites do not protect against botulism – the chief reason ham and bacon manufacturers say they use the chemicals.
27 Mar Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer? The law says yes, the science says maybe
A federal jury in California has unanimously decided that the weedkiller Roundup was a “substantial factor” in causing the lymphoma of 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman, who had used Roundup on his property for many years.
26 Mar Did cooking really give us the F-word?
Processed foods get blamed for a lot of things. But recently, a group of linguists took it to a whole new level.
26 Mar Disease-resistant pigs are here. When might we eat them?
The US FDA recently cleared the last hurdle for the first genetically engineered fish. Industry groups want pigs to be next.
25 Mar Cape Town mall turns waste into power and fertiliser
Property development company, Growthpoint Properties, has embarked on a partnership with Dutch green technology provider, Waste Transformers, for an innovative food waste conversion project at a Cape Town shopping mall.
25 Mar How Mondelez is adapting to changing times and trends
Sure, it helps a lot to be in the snacking business. About 75% of consumers around the world snack daily. Young people in particular routinely forego traditional meals for snacks. In the US, millennials snack more than four times per day.
25 Mar Growing plants in the coldest place on earth
Visit a research base in Antarctica with National Geographic where the aim is to make fresh produce a part of extraordinary life there — and on Mars.
22 Mar US authorities lift import ban on genetically engineered salmon
The US FDA has lifted an import alert on genetically engineered (GE) salmon, following an appeal by biotechnology company, AquaBounty Technologies.
20 Mar Load shedding & food safety
South Africa is experiencing regular load shedding, a situation that may well be a reality for some time. Its duration and frequency will potentially affect the safety of food in a refrigerator. SA's food safety and microbiology doyenne, Dr Lucia Anelich, offers this advice....
13 Mar Police bust food-bev fraudsters in Gauteng
Here's tale of cops uncovering some high-level food-bev fraud underway in SA....
13 Mar Cheap Brazilian imports threatening survival of SA’s chicken industry
The steep drop in RCL Foods’ earnings is a taste of what’s to come if we don’t protect our industry and stop the onslaught....
12 Mar Entecom launches the latest eBook in its food safety certification series
Food safety and QS compliance and training consultancy, Entecom, has compiled a valuable library of freely available eBooks - and the latest in this series is now available.
12 Mar UK: ‘Pick your own’ aisles coming to supermarkets?
The end of the bagged salad could be nigh, as British supermarkets look to install 'pick your own' vegetable aisles by the end of this year.
12 Mar Inspecto: meet the start-up that’s simplifying contaminant testing
Testing for contaminants is one of the most critical guarantors of food safety, yet the current system may be needlessly expensive and fatally flawed.
11 Mar Fast-growth chickens produce new industry woes
Chicken companies spent decades breeding birds to grow rapidly and develop large breast muscles. Now the industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with the consequences ranging from squishy fillets known as “spaghetti meat”, because they pull apart easily, to leathery ones known as “woody breast”.
11 Mar Pick n Pay launches dedicated space in-store to showcase its local small suppliers
Pick n Pay has introduced dedicated shop space to promote local South African products, produced by small businesses, to customers. The ‘Meet the Maker’ showcase will be trialed in eight stores across the country over a three-month period.
10 Mar Patenting your new food ingredients and products
Companies spend a lot of time and money to develop new ingredients and new food products but unless they are protected, if successful, they are sure to be copied and to be on the market in record time.
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