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Climate shifts European food production

Climate change is unlikely to pose a direct threat to Europe’s food supply in the coming decades. However, it is changing where food is produced. While agricultural regions in Southern Europe are increasingly facing heat..

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80% plastic reduction

05 November 2019

Vegan Masters has recently started to 'veganise' convenience food. From pizza to burgers and from stew to curry, they make delicious vegan varieties. The company now has 30 ultra-fresh mainstream convenience food product...

More sustainability from recycling

05 November 2019

More environmental gains can be made from recycling, for example through an export tax or ban on plastic packaging waste to a number of countries. Increased producer responsibility can improve the recyclability of produc...

Concrete intention to increase meatprice

04 November 2019

TAPP Coalition reports that the Dutch accept a fair -higher- price for meat, if there is a good destination for the extra charge. Currently, 52% of the Dutch population agrees with the plan to reinvest a higher price in ...

Natural phages against listeria approved

04 November 2019

The European Court of Justice has issued a Court Order that enables food companies to continue the use of phages to prevent Listeria on all ready to eat foods in the absence of a legal EU framework. Phages that specif...

Consultation CLA for the meat industry is difficult

29 October 2019

The FNV, together with employers in the meat industry, wants to increase the compensation for job losses in the meat sector when farmers are allowed to keep fewer animals due to the nitrogen problem. Wage increases ...

Magic Box against food waste

29 October 2019

Consumers can buy a Magic Box from retailers with the app Too Good To Go. The Magic Box is full of food products that would have been thrown away. The buyers consume 90% of the content of the box, according to research b...

Logo use with BRC certification

29 October 2019

There is a lot of confusion about using the right logo for BRC8. Many companies either have no idea that this is an issue, or it is not clear to them how to deal with it. In order to obtain the certification, a company h...

Recycling of packaging continues to rise

28 October 2019

Research by the Packaging Waste Fund shows that there was a further increase in the percentage of recycled packaging in 2018. Of the 3,120,000 tonnes, 2,478,000 tonnes were recycled. This results in a recycling percentag...

Smart barcode against food waste

24 October 2019

Wasteless, a young company that helps supermarkets keep food waste to a minimum, has entered into an effective partnership with GS1 to achieve its goal. They do this by means of smart GS1 barcodes. With this barcode, fre...

Launch fruit and vegetable market observatory

22 October 2019

Officially launched on 18 October with a kick-off meeting, the new fruit and vegetable market observatory will provide greater transparency and short-term analysis to a key sector for European agriculture. Fruit and vege...

New plan for carbon-neutral land sector

22 October 2019

Global agriculture and forestry could be carbon-neutral by 2040 and contribute 30% to the Paris targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. This can be done through the conservation and planting of forests, sustainable...

Worrying decline of food controls in Europe

22 October 2019

The number of food controls and the resources allocated to them are dwindling across Europe. This is the worrying trend that emerges from the report ‘Keeping food in check’, published today by BEUC, The European Consumer...

More sustainable food sector through DNA testing

21 October 2019

In the Biosintrum in Friesland, the closing night of the very first Rabo Food Forward Track took place on Thursday 17 October. On this evening the two previously nominated cases were presented to the jury. The winning...

High-protein food of the future

21 October 2019

High-protein food of the future' is the vision of the Future Food Group that started at the beginning of October 2019. Future Food Group intends to be a leading party in the innovation and production of sustainable and e...

The Dutch go for a future without hunger

17 October 2019

Wednesday 16 October on World Food Day, the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) launched the 'Netherlands Food Partnership' (NFP); a new movement that helps par...