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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.
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.
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.
The US FDA has lifted an import alert on genetically engineered (GE) salmon, following an appeal by biotechnology company, AquaBounty Technologies.
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....
Here's tale of cops uncovering some high-level food-bev fraud underway in SA....
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....
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.
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.
Testing for contaminants is one of the most critical guarantors of food safety, yet the current system may be needlessly expensive and fatally flawed.
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”.
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.
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.
South Africa’s leading milk producer, Clover Industries, has received a generous buyout offer from MilCo SA, a consortium that is part-owned by an Israeli firm. The South African wing of the Palestinian pressure group Boycott, Divest, Sanctions has promised militant protests and ‘direct action’. We should not let activists bully us into economic decisions that harm South Africa.
In recent years, we’ve begun to learn that most everything we eat — from probiotic yogurt to a serving of asparagus to a fatty pork chop — has an effect on the microbes that live in our bodies, which, in turn, have an effect on us. And rapidly.
Three decades after the technology was first developed, US company, Epogee, is gearing up for a commercial launch of fat replacers called EPGs (esterified propoxylated glycerols) which can reduce calories from fat by up to 92% without impacting taste or texture.
A US food tech startup just raised $90-million to make it easier to invent new alternate proteins.
The importance of packaging and related industries will take centre stage next week at Africa’s ultimate packaging, food processing, plastics, printing and labelling trade exhibition, which will afford over 600 exhibitors the opportunity to showcase their latest technologies and innovations.
The South African Meat Processors Association (SAMPA) has donated R1-million towards the activities of Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Food Safety.
If the idea of a smart coffee cup sounds silly, you probably haven’t tried the Ember Ceramic Mug.