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Value loss remains a blind spot in the meat supply chain

Food loss in the meat supply chain is not just about waste. Products that remain safe and suitable for consumption can also lose value. That is one of the findings of the European Breadcrumb project. In the project, meat..

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Roland ten Klooster: Becoming more sustainable by taking small steps

05 March 2018

Roland ten Klooster is a packaging consultant and professor by special appointment of Packaging Design and Management. When he was studying industrial design in the 1980s, food packaging design in the Netherlands was a s...

Inzicht in voedselkeuzegedrag

06 February 2018

Zowel de agrifood- als de tuinbouwsector benadrukken in hun innovatie-agenda’s het belang van een maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemende sector, die een gezondere voedselkeuze wil stimuleren. Bedrijfsleven en kennisins...

De hei op met je sustainable development goals

06 February 2018

Verduurzaming heeft allang wortel geschoten in de foodsector. De redenen waarom bedrijven zich inzetten voor dierenwelzijn, suikerreductie of een eerlijke prijs voor de cacaoboer verschillen echter sterk. Dit varieert va...

Garnalensector krijgt MSC-keurmerk voor visserij

11 December 2017

Op dinsdag 12 december kreeg de Duitse, Deense en Nederlandse garnalensector het MSC-keurmerk uitgereikt. Dit gebeurde tijdens de Landbouw- en Visserijraad in Brussel in aanwezigheid van Camiel Derichs, Europees Directeu...

Biodegradable meat packaging

10 October 2017

From mid-October, all the organic meat in the Coop supermarkets in the Netherlands will be packaged in a material that can be disposed of as garden waste. Wim van den Burg, Category Manager Fresh at Coop: “In collaborati...

More sustainable protein production

11 September 2017

Proteins obtained from potatoes, blood plasma and peas retain their functionality even in a less pure form. In fact, sometimes that can even improve the functionality. These are the conclusions of researchers from Wageni...

Key task: ensuring that the right agriculture is in the right place

11 September 2017

Earlier this year Prof. Dr. Ir. Rudy Rabbinge won the Rachel Carson prize, which is awarded once every five years by VVM, a Dutch network of environmental professionals. From 2001 to 2011, Rudy Rabbinge was a professor a...

Westfort proud of positive response

15 August 2017

In 2016, Westfort Vleesproducten, member of the Netherlands’ Central Organisation for the Meat Sector (COV), welcomed hundreds of visitors to its new slaughterhouse in IJsselstein (Utrecht). Optimum transparency In...

Chain-oriented approach is necessary

13 June 2017

The European Parliament is calling on EU countries to reduce their food waste by 30% by 2025 and subsequently by 50% by 2030 (compared with 2014 levels). Parliament has introduced this target in draft waste legislation w...

Jan van As: Pioneer in innovation and sustainability

13 June 2017

What started more than 60 years ago as a stall on Amsterdam’s Albert Cuyp market has grown into an impressive business. The company called Versvishandel Jan van As handles over 4,000 tons of fresh fish each year. Sustain...

Winnaar Jaarprijs Goede Voeding 2017

11 April 2017

Albert Heijn/Koninklijke Vezet heeft met de producten Courgette-spaghetti, Bloemkoolrijst en Broccolirijst de Jaarprijs Goede Voeding 2017 gewonnen. Het product kreeg zowel de meeste stemmen van de publieksjury als van d...

From edible paper to marketing tool

11 April 2017

The Dutch village of Oostzaan is home to the world’s only factory that produces edible wafer paper in both sheet and roll form. The product is sold all over the world under the name of Primus Wafer Paper. Thanks to moder...

Innovating to stay ahead

11 April 2017

Aalt Dijkhuizen has been a figurehead for the Dutch agri-food sector at home and abroad for many years. He has been chair of the Top Team Agri & Food since 2014, and on 1 April of this year the Top Team also named hi...

Omission of best-before date

11 April 2017

Waste of food products with a long shelf life, such as rice, pasta, coffee and soup, is reduced by 12 percent if no best-before date is indicated on the packaging. If the best-before date is omitted in combination with t...

Commodity prices show upward trend

11 April 2017

There has been strong variation in the trends for commodity prices over the past three months. Prices for energy (oil, gas) fell steeply, while the prices for agricultural raw materials (wheat, coffee, corn) and metals (...