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Local food? A great idea (on paper)

Getting your groceries straight from a nearby farm, who wouldn’t want that? Less transport, fairer prices for farmers, shorter supply chains. Governments have been trying to promote it for years. Still, making local food..

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Eating plant-based: We want to, but we don't

11 October 2022

Dutch people are open to replacing dairy, meat and eggs with plant-based alternatives, but their behaviour does not always show it. So in this case too, wanting is not automatically doing, according to the Agrifood Monit...

Food industry output prices stabilise

11 October 2022

In the food industry, output prices went up by 22.1 per cent on average in August. Since April this year, price increases in the food industry have more or less stabilised. Thus, food industry price increases fluctuated ...

Gold for packaging innovation by Masterpack Group

11 October 2022

The 31st edition of packaging innovation competition De Gouden Noot has been won by Masterpack Group, with a breakthrough application of Modified Atmosphere technology in the world of FIBCs. This innovative Modified A...

300 tonnes of oranges dumped in Australia

11 October 2022

This season has been one of the worst for Australian citrus growers in 40 years. The wet conditions have resulted in most of the oranges not meeting supermarket specifications which has resulted in the dumping of oranges...

Whiting, herring and mackerel overexploited in 2021

07 October 2022

MSC is calling for urgent action as ecologically and economically vital pelagic fish stocks in the North East Atlantic continue to be overexploited. This is because governments have failed for years to agree on catch quo...

With GLN, the apple literally does not fall far from the tree

07 October 2022

GS1 together with Fresh Upstream presented the GLN (Global Location Number) register, this tool should make tracking primary food products a lot easier. With the GLN register, each farm and even each plot or tree can ...

The Zwamcijsje, an HAS idea going to market

06 October 2022

The Zwamcijsje is the modern sausage roll. The smell, colour and taste that make your mouth water, but plant-based and with a lot less fat. Mendelt Tillema devised the Zwamcijsje with fellow student Rick Houtepen duri...

Government supports energy-intensive SMEs with TEK scheme

05 October 2022

Companies from small to large have been hit hard by soaring energy costs. The government has completed its inventory of options for targeted support for SMEs, which cannot escape high energy consumption. For these so-cal...

KVK: Protect your business with these 7 measures

05 October 2022

There are many ways to be cyber-secure. What you secure and how you do it varies from one business to another. Yet there are a few security points that almost every business owner should think about. The Digital Trust Ce...

Industrial food slicers with high-capacity

04 October 2022

As the world leader in food cutting technology, Urschel is the #1 best-selling supplier of industrial food cutting machines in the world. Urschel designs, manufactures and markets precision high-capacity industrial slici...

11 food sector companies in KVK Innovation top 100

04 October 2022

On Tuesday 4 October 2022, KVK presented the ranking of 100 concrete innovations realised by Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises for the 17th time. In 2022, there are 11 companies from the food and agri sector in th...

HAK stops production due to high energy prices

04 October 2022

Vegetable and legume manufacturer HAK plans a short production break in January 2023 due to soaring energy prices. This will be a six-week break. According to the organisation, with current energy prices, it is not feasi...

FNLI: Existence of food producers under strong pressure

03 October 2022

FNLI is very concerned about the continuity of Dutch food producers. Exploding energy costs are putting them under increasing pressure. A growing number of producers in various sectors even see their continuity threatene...

Dutch cutter fishery to suffer heavy losses in 2022

03 October 2022

The Dutch cutter fishery suffers an estimated loss of EUR 20-30 million for the first eight months of 2022. Many cutters have been idle for long periods because fishing was expected to be unprofitable. Main reasons for t...

Pieter Pot wants more packaging-free products

03 October 2022

Pieter Pot is running a campaign during October 2022 to invite consumers as well as major players in the food industry to commit more to packaging-free products. Pieter Pot has been campaigning against the use of single-...