Food Industry

Food Safety Lab Grants $2.9M for New Global Projects Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. – The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, co-located at Cornell and Purdue Universities, has announced $2.9 million in grants for research projects to improve food safety and prevent foodborne illness in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya and Senegal. The competitively funded, 3 ½-year projects will focus on identifying knowledge gaps, enhancing local capacity for food safety research, and translating research into improved food-handling policies and practices. “These projects represent a diverse portfolio of research and outreach with great potential to enhance not only food safety in the...

Convenient antioxidant capacity measurement of food Professor Masashi Kunitake Normally, a sample is dissolved in an electrolyte solution and three electrodes (working, reference, counter) are inserted into the solution to perform electrochemical measurements. In this system, however, there is no need to prepare a new electrolyte solution because the gel membrane on the electrodes functions as its own solution.   Newswise — Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have developed a system to quickly and easily measure the antioxidant capacity of food. The new electrochemical system uses a gel form Bicontinuous Microemulsion (BME), a mixture of water and oil that do not normally...

Drying fruit with ionic wind Image: Empa Drying with ionic wind: If the fruit slices are placed on a mesh, they are dried faster and more evenly.   Newswise — When the blades of a fan rotate, a steady wind is blowing as a result. This phenomenon is well known from everyday life, and so we use the fan on hot summer days to cool us down. An unwanted side effect is the unpleasant feeling in the eyes, which become drier and drier due to the artificial wind. The food industry has been taking advantage of this effect for a...

Update to annual food industry awards revealed The annual Food Management Today Industry Awards has confirmed that the ceremony will be upgraded and be scheduled to take place as a black-tie dinner event on the 20th May 2021. The winners from the 2020 Food Management Today Industry Awards. The ceremony had originally been provisionally scheduled to take place on 18th March 2021, but ongoing Government rulings in relation to Covid-19 has seen organisers upgrade the awards to a dinner ceremony and confirm a new slightly later date. The awards ceremony recognises the very best within the UK food processing and...

What is England's sugar target and why has the food industry missed it?      Part of the rise in sugar levels is down to mince pies, included for the first time in the figures. Photograph: Dan Matthews/Guardian According to a damning report from Public Health England, the food industry has failed to meet a voluntary target to remove 20% of sugar by 2020, instead cutting only 3% from supermarket, cafe and restaurant products over the last three years. What is the sugar reduction plan and why do we need it? The government’s sugar reduction plan is a voluntary deal with...