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Health effects of organic food on pigs

Scientists from Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Utrecht University (UU), and the Louis Bolk Institute (LBI) have initiated a large-scale study to investigate the effects of organic food on pig health. This re..

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KIDV: Beverage cartons are quite recyclable

28 November 2022

According to research by Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (WFBR), the recycling rate of beverage cartons was 31 per cent in 2020. Only the paper fibres were recycled; incidentally, these are not used in new bevera...

New opportunities for returned bread

23 November 2022

On 1 January 2023, the cabinet will unilaterally introduce a €30 million burden increase for the agricultural sector. On that day, the contribution that farmers, gardeners, growers, fishermen, processors and importers an...

Sustainability industry strained by grid congestion

23 November 2022

New connections to the high-voltage grid are virtually impossible in a large part of the Netherlands. Grid operator TenneT reported 17 November 2022 that there is "grid congestion". The Netherlands is accelerating its en...

Heat recovery for cleaning processes

21 November 2022

The basic principle of any refrigeration plant is to extract heat from products, among other things, and discharge it to a place where it does not cause a nuisance. The usual starting point is to release this heat to the...

Dedicated to food: when cleaning runs through your veins

21 November 2022

Cleaning food companies with 70 people every day, washing 500,000 crates and 12,000 pieces of company clothing every week, taking over extra tasks from your customers with a smile, continuing to optimise your business an...

WUR: Diversity between various groups of eaters

17 November 2022

Two recently published studies from Wageningen University & Research compared consumers with various eating patterns. The studies focussed specifically on meat eaters, flexitarians and vegetarians, and on the diversi...

Agrifirm and Vallei Varken introduce climate-neutral pork

14 November 2022

Together with Agrifirm, Vallei Varken is launching the very first climate-neutral certified pork in the Netherlands. This pork will be available in Marley Spoon meal boxes from mid-November 2022. Following a verification...

LTO Netherlands wants addition to Agro-Nutrimonitor

10 November 2022

At the end of October 2022, WUR published the Agro-Nutrimonitor commissioned by the ACM. LTO Netherlands responds to the study, which mainly covers the years 2018-2020. The organisations appreciate the efforts of the ...

Marketing claims organic, what are you allowed to say?

08 November 2022

To get the message of organic across to consumers, good communication is obviously very important. For example, through claims on labels, in advertisements, in the supermarket and on the website. But what exactly is orga...

Freshfel embarks on shadow PEFCR for fruit & vegetables

07 November 2022

Freshfel Europe alongside members is embarking on the development of a shadow Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) for fruit and vegetables. The objective of the shadow PEFCR is to have a state-of-the-a...

Food waste: 127 kg per inhabitant in the EU in 2020

02 November 2022

In 2020 around 127 kilogrammes (kg) of food waste per inhabitant were generated in the EU. Households generated 55% of food waste, accounting for 70 kg per inhabitant. The remaining 45% was waste generated upwards in the...

Lidl stops flying in fruit and vegetables

02 November 2022

To reduce its climate impact, Lidl announces that it is the first national food chain to stop bringing in fruit and vegetables by air. By taking this step, Lidl is reducing CO2 emissions released when transporting produc...

WUR: Does true pricing influence purchasing behaviour?

02 November 2022

Researchers from Wageningen University & Research tested the effect of true pricing. The conclusion was interesting: the more customers feel that buying true price products leads to increased social status or contrib...

Short-term solutions to reduce steam costs

01 November 2022

No one could have foreseen how quickly scarcity of gas and shortage of electrical infrastructure have become a reality. There are many questions among companies with steam boilers looking for solutions to reduce steam pr...

Dutch industry can reduce gas consumption by 16%

01 November 2022

The Dutch industry can make a substantial contribution to rapidly reducing the demand for natural gas. By using energy more efficiently in various ways, around 1.5 billion m3 of natural gas can be saved structurally. ...