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2025 Trend Report for the Food and Beverage Industry

2025 promises to be a transformative year for the food and beverage sector. Strengthen your business strategy and gain a lasting competitive edge with this practical guide to the industry’s most significant challenges an..

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Salt content in bread stabilises

13 December 2021

For the third year in a row, the weighted average is 1.62% salt on the dry matter. This is apparent from the 2021 edition of the Dutch Bakery Association (NVB) Salt Monitoring. The sector therefore easily satisfies the l...

Field locust approved as food in EU

18 November 2021

After mealworms, residents of the European Union will soon be able to put grasshoppers on the table. The European Commission approves the European field grasshopper to serve as a foodstuff. A Dutch company had requested ...

Online Edition Cleaning and Disinfection November 2021

15 November 2021

For this edition we asked a number of companies about the biggest blunders of last year in the field of cleaning and disinfection. What went wrong? What was the solution? What did you learn from them? This with ...

Cleaning; starting point of every production process

15 November 2021

It is always raining reports at the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA): Salmonella in meatloaves, smoked sausages and in basil spice spreaders, Listeria monocytogenes in frozen corn, allergens in pro...

The 5 biggest hygiene blunders

15 November 2021

We challenged you to give one, preferably as recent as possible, real-life example of a cleaning and disinfection issue you had to deal with. An event that made a deep impression on you, the biggest mistake of the year. ...

Picture this...

15 November 2021

Pim starts a business, in the food industry. He has a great product: fish satay! He has already awakened the interest of a few local restaurants. Now he wants to start professionally. He has found a place to work, bought...

Use your common sense

15 November 2021

Agents used for cleaning and disinfection in the food industry must not leave traces in foodstuffs. Therefore, the cleaning plans and safety worksheets of a cleaning and disinfection agent, such as sodium hypochlorite, s...

Trace Listeria source faster and more precisely

15 November 2021

In 2019, a Listeria Monocytogenes infection at a meat producer in Aalsmeer caused six deaths, two miscarriages and 35 cases of illness. The source of these infections could be traced thanks to Whole Genome Sequencing (WG...

Saving on waste water costs with cleaning

15 November 2021

Good cleaning products help to deal with food properly. Sometimes they even do more than what they are intended for. At Rodé Vis, they also lead to increased sustainability and interesting cost savings. If there is a ...

Faster cleaning thanks to renovation

15 November 2021

No quality without spotlessly clean premises, or so they say at Medaillon Topvlees and Ülkem Döner. The two companies don't just have the product meat in common; they have both recently undergone renovation. It ensures t...

Clean Label safeguards traditional meat taste

15 November 2021

How do you guarantee that meat products can be kept for long enough and remain tasty? That was the challenge Aarnink Vleeswaren faced. They chose Masterblends 'clean label' and are pleased with the natural, traditional m...

UK food allergy labelling laws tightened

21 October 2021

Since 1 October, the UK Food Information Amendment, better known as Natasha's Law, has been in force, requiring the labelling of pre-packaged food for immediate sale to include a full list of ingredients with the 14 most...

Synchronous drum motors

11 October 2021

Momentum Technologies' synchronous drum motors have a very high power density and generate enormous power in a small diameter. In combination with their high efficiency and servo characteristics, they are the best choice...

Need for business definition personalised nutrition

07 October 2021

On 7 October Foodvalley NL, along with 53 stakeholders, from industry to academia and from start-ups to corporates release a position paper on personalised nutrition. This was prompted by Foodvalley interviews among more...

TNO research basis for WHO/FAO advice on allergen limits

27 September 2021

The WHO/FAO has recommended standards for warning of the possible unintended presence of allergens in food. These standards could help prevent potentially life-threatening situations for food-allergic consumers and signi...