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Stricter rules for sustainability claims on food

“Sustainable” or “environmentally friendly”: claims like these are appearing on more and more products. They offer opportunities for food manufacturers, but they also require attention. After all, there is more to a gree..

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Are CO2 neutral claims reliable?

10 May 2023

Testaankoop, a Belgian consumer organization, warns that CO2 neutral claims on products can be misleading to consumers. Buying carbon credits, to offset CO2 emissions, is not reliable because these credits are not suffic...

De voordelen van stoom voor de voedingsindustrie

09 May 2023

Bij het ontwikkelen van een voedingsproduct komt vaak stoom voor in het productieproces, of het nu gaat om het bereiden van soepen en sauzen in kookketels, het roken van worsten in rookkasten, het bakken van brood in ove...

Five-year partnership for a healthier future

09 May 2023

Greenyard, The Vegetable Chef and We're Smart World are joining forces to accelerate the transition to healthier and more sustainable food. The partnership includes a five-year collaboration in which the organisations wi...

185 investors demand approach to plastic crisis

09 May 2023

A group of 185 investors with combined assets of $10 trillion, coordinated by the Association of Investors for Sustainable Development, is calling for drastic measures to address the plastic crisis.  In a joint s...

New method for upgrading biogas

09 May 2023

A team of researchers from the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG) has developed a new method for upgrading biogas. The research aims to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by replacing natur...

Combat food waste? Start stockpiling

08 May 2023

Bulk offers in the supermarket, such as 1+1 free or stacking discounts, do not increase food waste. On the contrary, these types of offers appear to make consumers more aware of the risk of food wastage, making them try ...

Sustainable food: share keeps growing

03 May 2023

Sustainable food continues to grow in Dutch supermarkets despite strong inflation and high price increases. This is according to the full-year 2022 Retail Labels Monitor, conducted by Circana in cooperation with a consor...

Three organisations launch digital deposit pilot project

03 May 2023

Three organisations will test out digital deposit systems in Flanders in the coming months. They are Unbox, Twintag-Verhaert-Cegeka and DDRS Alliance. The results of these pilot projects should allow a decision to be mad...

Smart robots to make a salad

02 May 2023

Picking and packaging a bunch of grapes with a robot already requires a lot of technology. But it can get even more complicated: automatically preparing a ready-to-eat salad. Researchers from Wageningen University & ...

Three food trends for sustainable and healthy eating

02 May 2023

The Belgian food industry wants to develop sustainable food for the future. To achieve this, Fevia, the Belgian food industry federation, organised the Food At Work Ecotrophelia Awards, a competition in which 15 teams of...

SME sustainability grant scheme amended

02 May 2023

The SME Sustainability Grant Scheme (SVM) has been amended and SME entrepreneurs can again apply from now until 30 September 2023 for subsidies to make their businesses more sustainable. Last year's scheme has been impro...

Waste fund offers free collection system for waste

01 May 2023

The Dutch Waste Fund for Packaging offers companies and social organisations a free collection system to separate plastic packaging, drinks cartons and glass packaging. By doing so, the Waste Fund wants to contribute to ...

Compaxo: Processing meat deserves appreciation

25 April 2023

Meat is currently under a magnifying glass. Unfortunately not always in a positive sense. Yet many meat processors continue to put their heart and soul into providing others with a good piece of meat every day. In a clea...

The 'Bio Top 40': organic as the standard

25 April 2023

Replacing conventional products with an organic alternative is the most effective measure to boost the consumption and production of organic. For this reason, on 21 April 2023, Bionext published the 'Bio Top 40': a list ...

Increasingly less food waste in the Netherlands

25 April 2023

Dutch people are wasting less and less food, especially households. Since 2015, we are throwing away 23% less food. In 2022, Dutch people wasted an average of 33.4 kg of food per person at home. But, about a quarter of a...