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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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Empack 2022 in Eventhal Gorinchem

01 June 2021

Trade fair Empack will be organised in the spring of 2022 in Evenementenhal Gorinchem, which is owned by exhibition organiser Easyfairs. Previous editions of Empack took place in among others the Jaarbeurs Utrecht and Br...

Sales market for food companies fundamentally changed

27 May 2021

Food companies often strive for a mix of customers in order not to be too dependent on one market or one country. The coronapandemic has shown in an extreme way that access to alternative sales channels can be of great i...

Europe rejects ‘plant-based dairy censorship’

27 May 2021

The European Parliament, the European Council, and the European Commission rejected Amendment 171, which would have meant severe restrictions for plant-based dairy products. ProVeg International challenged the amendment ...

No nitrite salt allowed in filet americain

27 May 2021

The court has ruled that various meat products are no longer regarded as meat products but as meat preparations. This means that nitrite salt is no longer allowed in filet americain. A transitional period has been agreed...

Industry organisations reject idea of meat tax

26 May 2021

A tax on meat products, as proposed by a number of political parties, is not effective, not feasible and sometimes even counterproductive. This is what COV (Central Organisation for the Meat Sector), LTO Nederland (agric...

27% of the plastic packages are well-recyclable

26 May 2021

The share of well-recyclable plastic packages has hardly increased over the past 7 years. A meticulous study into the designs of plastic packages currently present on the Dutch market has revealed that 27% is well recycl...

Peeling for a better world

25 May 2021

The idea for 'valorising' citrus peels originated during a chemistry course in York, England, in 2016. Now PeelPioneers processes the lion's share of all orange peels in the Netherlands. From the peels, PeelPioneers main...

Rent or buy original MULTIVAC refurbished machines

25 May 2021

MULTIVAC offers fresh produce producers a choice of not only brand new packaging or processing machines. MULTIVAC also reconditions used machines with original spare parts and thus meets the needs of customers who want a...

Research into healthy products from waste streams

25 May 2021

Dutch and German companies and knowledge institutions are working together in a cross-border search, led by the lead partner Hochschule Niederrhein; the poject SUN (Sustainable and Natural side streams), for making healt...

New approach to food product improvement

25 May 2021

We can conclude that much effort and commitment has been made to improve the supply of products. At the same time, we have to conclude that the estimated intake of sugar and salt in the Netherlands is still too high, des...

Consumers' Association wants rules for 'natural' and 'pure' on food labels

25 May 2021

Clear rules are needed for the use of the terms 'natural' and 'pure' on food labels, according to the Consumers' Association. The organisation advocates guidelines to combat deception and lack of clarity. Just like in Fr...

Research into online nudging with fruit and vegetables

25 May 2021

By using nudges on the shop floor, consumers in the supermarket buy more fruit and vegetables, as the 2018 experiment of the National Action Plan for Fruit and Vegetables (NAGF) showed. This time, NAGF is investigating w...

Turnover food industry 3.7 percent lower in first quarter

20 May 2021

In the first quarter of 2021, turnover of producers in the food industry was 3.7 percent lower than a year earlier. This loss of turnover was slightly higher than the loss of turnover in all branches of industry. Accordi...

First Dutch 100% plant-based cheese launched

20 May 2021

Know how since 1936, no cow since 2020. This is the pay-off for the recently launched vegetarian brand WildWestLand. Dutch cheese makers Westland Kaas, known for Maaslander and Old Amsterdam, started the brand together w...

Chitin from shellfish residues via biological method

18 May 2021

Enzymes and bacterial fermentation can extract the useful substance chitin from shrimp shells and crab shells just as well as more aggressive chemical-based processes, according to research conducted by ILVO-UGent resear...