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France targets misleading origin labels

The French government is stepping up efforts to combat misleading origin labelling of food products. In 2024, fraud control agency DGCCRF carried out 10,000 inspections on items marketed as French. Irregularities were fo..

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E-Piim, Royal A-ware and Interfood Group: First Cheddar produced in Estonia

01 September 2023

The brand-new dairy factory in Estonia has produced its first Cheddar cheese after an extensive process of planning, design, and construction. This project is the outcome of a collaboration between E-Piim, Royal A-ware, ...

Plant-Based Pioneers: 15 Years of TOP-inside Technology

30 August 2023

The team at TOP b.v. has focused on developing innovative meat substitutes and plant-based products over the past 15 years. Their primary aim was to mimic the texture and taste of meat. From this effort, three prominent ...

Agristo's new fry factory in Northern France

29 August 2023

The Belgian fry producer Agristo is taking over the former factory location of sugar group Tereos in Escaudoeuvres, Northern France. With an investment of 350 million euros, Agristo is launching a potato processing facto...

WUR: Strip cropping demands flexibility from food processors

24 August 2023

Wageningen Food & Biobased Research has published revealing findings after studying three wheat harvests produced from strip cropping. It turns out that while strip-grown wheat is not inferior to commercial varieties...

Production growth in food industry comes to a halt

22 August 2023

Production growth in the food industry is expected to come to a halt in 2023. Entrepreneurs are anticipating a change in the pricing landscape, with the once dominant wave of price increases appearing to subside. However...

COV launches monitor food waste in meat sector

17 August 2023

A new initiative was launched at the end of July: the periodic monitoring of food waste within the meat sector, a collaboration between COV, WUR and the Foundation Together Against Food Waste (STV). The previous survey o...

Climate neutrality in the food sector: all hands on deck

08 August 2023

Food companies play a crucial role in achieving Dutch climate goals. According to the FNLI, climate and energy are the biggest challenges. Green power alone is insufficient to achieve climate neutrality.  Besides...

China imports 13 percent more pork

02 August 2023

In the first half of 2023, China imported 13 percent more pork than in the same period of 2022, amounting to 1.54 million tons, an increase of 180,000 tons. Spain retains the title of main supplier. Spending on import...

System integration for robots in greenhouses

01 August 2023

TNO is working with partners to develop a semantic explanation and navigation system (SENS) that improves communication and information exchange between robots and operators in greenhouses. With the growth of greenhouses...

Ultra-processed foods are not necessarily unhealthy

01 August 2023

A new research project is challenging the idea that heavily processed foods can't be part of a healthy diet. This study aims to develop a diet plan that gets 80% of its calories from heavily processed foods, while still ...

New research into animal-free dairy proteins

25 July 2023

The SAFERMENT project was recently launched, this project explores the production of dairy proteins without the use of animals. Using precision fermentation technology, microorganisms are genetically modified to produce ...

Unilever aims to boost ice cream sales with smart freezers

24 July 2023

Unilever has increased the deployment of its smart freezer system in an effort to better respond to the growing ice cream market. The company has a total of 3 million refrigerators worldwide, 50,000 of which are classifi...

Historic pork prices due to decline in production

24 July 2023

Pork production in the European Union (EU) saw a 7.7 percent decline in the first three months of 2023. This decline led to record pork prices, as reported by EU market analysts. The price increases are mainly caused ...

Dutch dairy industry grew strongly in 2022

24 July 2023

The dairy market in the Netherlands showed a positive trend in 2022, with milk prices showing an upward trend. Throughout the year, the rise in milk prices continued, with a record level of €60 per 100 kg starting in the...

Recovery in poultry meat production exceeds expectations

24 July 2023

European poultry meat production is showing a faster recovery than previously expected by EU market analysts. Growth of 1.1 percent was forecast this spring, but recent figures indicate a 2.5 percent increase. Last ye...