Sustainability

Construction: Important considerations for food entrepreneurs

You want to expand or renovate. So, you decide to build! Once you’ve made that decision, questions start arising. What materials will you choose? Are they sustainable? How does this choice affect fire safety? What about ..

EU aims for only deforestation-free products

14 September 2022

To fight global climate change and biodiversity loss, the European Parliament demands companies ensure that products sold in the EU do not come from deforested or degraded land. The new law would make it obligatory fo...

Drink cartons most sustainable way of packaging

13 September 2022

Trade association HEDRA ( consists of Tetra Pak, Elopak and SIG Combibloc) is speaking out following recent reports on the level of sustainability of beverage cartons. Inge Eggermont, director of HEDRA, says: "By using r...

Packaging is the new raw material

09 September 2022

Whether we like it or not, very strict laws and regulations are coming our way in the field of packaging. We find ourselves in the calm before the storm. Warning: DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE if you are a fan of short-sighte...

A veggie burger out of the printer

07 September 2022

Researchers at WUR have developed a process for printing a vegetarian burger. The burger is made up of spaghetti-like threads of protein. In the process hall of the Axis campus building stands a Burger Extrusion Print...

NVWA pleads for structural changes in the fish chain

07 September 2022

Structural changes are necessary to make the fish chain in the Netherlands sustainable and future-proof. This is evident from the analysis 'De Visketen in Beeld' (The Fish Chain in view). In it, the Dutch Food and Consum...

Effective energy savings in steam production

06 September 2022

How do you save energy in the production process? As much as 75% of the potential energy savings in the industrial sector are related to steam installations and engines. This is partly because steam is a very common ener...

New lactic acid bacteria change plant-based foods

05 September 2022

A new type of lactic acid bacteria, developed by researchers at DTU (Technical University of Denmark), can form natural butter flavor when grown in plant-based drinks such as soy and oat milk. Now researchers from DTU...

First national ZERO Food Waste challenge launched

05 September 2022

HAS University of Applied Sciences and a number of partners are organising the first national ZERO Food Waste Challenge. The challenge will start on 13 September 2022. The aim of the ZERO Food Waste Challenge is to ra...

NTU develops fungi-based food product

02 September 2022

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a technique to cultivate a fungi-based food product that could serve as a healthier, better tasting, and greener alternative to p...

Simple method discovered to destroy PFAS

22 August 2022

There’s finally hope for a simple, cheap way to destroy a class of ubiquitous environmental toxins found in shampoos, fast-food wrappers, and fire-dousing foams. A common ingredient in soap, mixed with water and an organ...

Extreme heat in Spain hits olive, avocado harvest

22 August 2022

The La Vinuela reservoir is the most important water storage facility in the southern Spanish province of Malaga. But following months without rain and an unparalleled heat wave, the reservoir, which is normally 6 kilome...

From fruit stones to tasty food

19 August 2022

Kern Tec GmbH has developed a range of technologies that turn the fruit stones that normally end up in the rubbish into tasty food. More than half a million tonnes of apricot, cherry, plum and peach stones are thrown awa...

Iglo: frozen food key in fight against food waste

17 August 2022

Although 75 percent of Dutch people think about wasting food when they buy fruit and vegetables, the same percentage regularly throw vegetables away because they have passed their expiry date. Iglo suggests that much of ...

Vion strengthens position eastern Germany

17 August 2022

Vion Food Group is on the highway to the new states of Germany – with tens of millions in investment and expansion of its site in Thuringia. Vion Food Group has long supported the trend towards greater regionalism among ...

Last mile has great impact on the environment

16 August 2022

Dutch consumers expect to do more and more of their shopping online in the coming five years. This is evident from research conducted by GfK on behalf of Thuiswinkel.org. The expected online sales share has risen from 37...