Category: News
-
FPS widens utilities engineering reach through a new QES partnership. The deal adds ventilation, MEP, refrigeration, and process-piping design capability to its food processing portfolio.
-
Europe’s rice sector is pressing Brussels for faster trade action. Producer and milling groups say rising imports, weak paddy prices and mounting cost and compliance pressures are pushing production towards an unviable point in several member states.
-
UK regulators have issued first safety guidance for precision fermentation. The new framework sets out how advanced ingredients should be classified and assessed, giving producers clearer expectations on hygiene compliance, hazard identification and evidence requirements before novel foods reach the market.
-
Researchers have automated broiler feeding analysis with high-speed machine vision. A study from São Paulo validated a YOLOv8-SAM pipeline that converts beak motion into live kinematic data, linking feed particle size to ingestion effort and opening a route toward digitally modelled poultry feeding.
-
PSB has highlighted moisture separation systems for process gas streams. The range combines centrifugal and mesh-based designs aimed at removing liquid water and oil aerosols where compressed air and gas quality affect hygiene, utility performance, and product integrity.
-
Arla is bringing high-protein bar concepts to Brazil soon. The company will showcase Easy Bite and clear protein water formats at Nutri Ingredients Summit in São Paulo from 31 March to 1 April, centred on whey-based texture and shelf life.
-
Cadbury Mini Eggs are moving into recycled plastic packaging. Mondelēz and Amcor have updated parts of the Easter range with higher certified recycled content and revised gift pack materials.
-
Thailand is rewriting food contact rules across packaging materials. Proposed changes would widen coverage to metals, glass, and paper-based formats while linking compliance more closely to Thai standards.
-
Aston and Mondelēz are moving membrane science into confectionery R&D. Their new partnership will test filtration methods that use taste receptor proteins to capture aroma compounds or remove bitter notes during production, including potential high-cocoa chocolate applications.
-
Lallemand has launched a fermentation-derived vanillin ingredient for foods. The new Hevani product targets bakery, dairy, confectionery, and cereal applications with natural status in the EU and US.