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PACKAGING: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of Packaging news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com. With just one month remaining until the main elements of the Food Information to Consumers EU 1169/2011 Regulation (FIC) are due to come into effect in […]
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UK consumer demand for antibacterial packaging
Antibacterial packaging that is designed to delay the development of germs and bacteria in canned products is set to become a hit with consumers, a new survey from Canadean reveals. The research finds that over half of Britons are worried about bacteria on the outside of a can, more than the presence of dirt and […]
Raw drinking milk warning
In light of three separate incidents involving six cases of E.coli O157 – including five cases in children – potentially linked to the consumption of raw drinking milk, the FSA is reiterating its advice that this sort of milk should not be consumed by children and other vulnerable people. Andrew Rhodes, chief operating officer at […]
Chr. Hansen launches range of Viniflora products
Chr Hansen is launching new range of Viniflora products for red wine producers reversing the classical scheme of fermentation management in wines. Production of red wine requires alcoholic fermentation where yeasts transform sugars into ethanol and some flavours. This is traditionally followed by the malolactic fermentation where lactic acid bacteria transform malic acid into lactic […]
Improved control of foodborne Clostridium
The control points that are critical to prevent foodborne outbreaks by Clostridium perfringens differ between two main groups of this bacterium. This is the outcome of recent research carried out by Yinghua Xiao at NIZO food research. C. perfringensisolates from foods were analysed using a functional genomics approach and their growth potential was assessed in […]
Boost food hygiene controls with Loma’s IP69K-rated inspection systems
Loma’s latest line-up of IQ3+ Metal Detection and X⁵ X-ray contaminant inspection systems and are designed to withstand high-pressure hot steam jet cleaning of up to 1,450psi. Constructed using top-quality 304L stainless steel makes the systems food safe and reduces the risk of corrosion. In creating these newly designed systems, Loma engineers have paid particular […]
SaltLife scientist wins prestigious award
Kirsten Kastberg Moeller, development scientist at Chr Hansen, has won the Dutch Pieter Walstra Award which acknowledges her ‘outstanding scientific publication related to dairy science’. Moeller was handed the award for her PhD thesis on ‘Salt reduction in Cheddar cheese: Exploring the potential of lactic acid bacteria and coagulants in restoring flavour and texture.’ The […]
Bactest launches new range of products to identify food contamination
UK-based Bactest is launching a panel of aerobic media products to identify contamination in food. The new products will selectively identify contamination caused by Staphyloccocus, Salmonella, Listeria, and Yeasts. These four new products join the company’s existing media products for E. coli, Coliforms, Pseudomonas and Enterococci. Bactest CEO Prof. Annie Brooking says, “These new products […]
Bruker releases application note for analysis of sulfonamides in honey
Bruker has released an application note detailing a simple, fast and robust method developed for the quantitation of sulfonamides in honey, using Bruker’s EVOQ Elite triple quadruple liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS). Sulfonamides are a group of broad spectrum antibacterial drugs, used to prevent and treat bacterial growth in honey products. Residues of sulfonamides are […]
New absorber for meat and fish trays
As part of a new sales agreement with Paper Pak Industries (PPI), Faerch Plast – a producer of plastic containers for the food industry – is now offering a new type of absorber for use in its trays for fresh meat and fish. The PPI UltraZap XtendaPak, placed underneath the packaged meat, limits bacteria growth […]
Multi-head weigher wins an oscar
Ishida’s multi-head weigher range, the RV series, has received an award for innovation from one of the world’s leading fruit and vegetable industry exhibitions. The Oscar Macfrut awards are organised by Macfrut, an international exhibition dedicated to the fruit and vegetable supply chain that celebrates process and product innovation. The awards were created in 2010 […]
New kit for on-site poultry testing
Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, has launched the Singlepath Direct Campy Poultry Kit for more rapid immunological screening of Campylobacter in poultry. The test kit contains all materials and reagents needed for testing, requires no prior enrichment step or additional laboratory equipment, and can thus be completed on-site, at the farm. Results are displayed in […]
Whey filtration system turns waste into income
Tetra Pak has launched Tetra Alcross RO Lite, a filtration system that helps small and medium sized dairies extract value out of whey. A common by-product of cheese production, whey is often dumped as waste. With Tetra Alcross RO Lite, it can now be turned into profit. Whey is only valuable when concentrated, but the […]
Technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the air
The University of Nottingham believes it has developed a major new technology that enables all of the world’s crops to take nitrogen from the air, rather than from expensive and environmentally-damaging fertilisers. Nitrogen fixation, the process by which nitrogen is converted to ammonia, is vital for plants to survive and grow. However, only a very […]