Food waste

Prevent product giveaway and reduce costs

In the competitive food industry, every gram counts. Small deviations in filling weight can lead to significant product waste, unnecessary product giveaway, and consequently higher operational costs. These inefficiencies..

Rigid standards cost farmers 20 percent of their crop

14 July 2026

The gap between industrial standards and the unpredictable whims of nature is growing. While the climate causes more variation, the industry is demanding even more uniformity. On average, 15 to 20 percent of the fruit an...

Meat processing sector tracks residual streams more effectively

10 July 2026

The Association of the Dutch Meat Products Industry is continuing its monitoring of food waste. This year, Danish Crown, Sigma Benelux, and DeliBarn are joining the group. This means over half of the combined production ...

Retail food waste plateaus: how will the supply chain respond?

10 July 2026

Supermarkets have made significant strides in reducing food waste. Between 2018 and 2023, retail food waste dropped by 34%. Over the last few years, however, this downward trend has stalled. This is shown in the annual s...

Food waste in cheese production proves low

07 July 2026

The Dutch cheese sector is performing well in resource management. New collaborative research shows that actual food waste during the production process is low. Five major producers participated in this initial measureme...

Young people waste food more often than older adults

25 June 2026

Young people throw away significantly more food at home than people aged 55 and older. Vegetables, fruit, dairy products, meat, and eggs are discarded most often. That is according to research by Too Good To Go. The find...

1 in 5 Europeans does not have enough to eat

19 June 2026

One in five Europeans does not have sufficient access to food. That is the claim made by the 360 organisations behind a new European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI). According to them, 42 million Europeans go to bed hungry ev...

THT or TGT? The difference remains unclear for many

18 June 2026

More than one billion products in Dutch supermarkets are now carrying shelf-life icons. With these symbols, manufacturers and retailers aim to help consumers waste less food and make better decisions about expiration dat...

The Banana Factory saves 20 million bananas from waste

15 June 2026

Every year, 255,000 tons of edible bananas end up in European incinerators. In many cases, these bananas are still perfectly suitable for consumption, but are rejected because they ripen too quickly during transport. The...

Too Good To Go saves more than 156 million meals

10 June 2026

In 2025, Too Good To Go saved more than 156 million meals from going to waste worldwide. This brings the total number of meals saved since the company’s launch to more than 600 million. According to the company, this pre...

Dutch consumers waste nearly 30% less food than in 2015

09 June 2026

Dutch consumers throw away less food at home than they did ten years ago. This is according to new research by the Dutch Nutrition Center. In 2025, Dutch consumers wasted an average of 25.5 kilograms of solid food per pe...

Value loss remains a blind spot in the meat supply chain

09 June 2026

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...

AH increases awareness of use-by and best-before dates

03 June 2026

Albert Heijn has now added information about shelf-life dates to more than half of all its private-label packaging. In doing so, the supermarket chain has achieved the primary objective of the Coalition Shelf-life. Throu...

NutriControl can make specific analyses in a new laboratory

11 May 2026

What’s in food, feed, and dairy? And perhaps even more importantly: what isn’t? NutriControl investigates this every single day. With a new laboratory in Veghel, the company is taking the next step in flexibility, tailor...

Albert Heijn deploys AI to reduce bread waste

05 May 2026

Albert Heijn is rolling out a new approach to tackle food waste in its bakery section. The supermarket is combining smart baking with dynamic pricing across all stores. Using AI, the assortment of bread products is bette...

Wheat bran: from by-product to egg replacer

28 April 2026

Wheat bran is produced in large volumes worldwide, yet remains underutilized in food applications. This is despite its content of valuable proteins. Research from the University of Groningen shows that this by-product ha...