Category: Food safety
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Mettler-Toledo is strengthening its European inspection offer through Eagle. The move adds higher-performance x-ray and inline fat-analysis capability for processors looking to tighten contaminant detection, yield protection, and composition control.
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HiPP’s baby food recall has widened across Central Europe rapidly. What began as a suspected tampering case in Austria has become a cross-border traceability and packaging-integrity problem with immediate implications for recall speed, shelf controls, and pack inspection.
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Sesotec has launched INTUITY NEX ahead of Interpack 2026, combining multi-frequency detection, AI-supported inspection, washdown-ready hygienic design, and digital connectivity in a system aimed at tougher food safety applications.
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TraceGains will hold its virtual Together 2026 conference on 20 May, using the event to push a connected-data model for compliance, innovation, and supply-chain workflows across food and beverage operations.
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Rothamsted Research has developed gene-edited wheat with sharply lower free asparagine, opening a route to reduced acrylamide formation in bread, biscuits, and crisps without the yield penalties seen in conventional mutation approaches.
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Choosing inspection technology depends on product, packaging, process, and risk. In this expert analysis, Mettler-Toledo’s Kati Hope explains when metal detection, x-ray, or a combined approach best fits contaminant risk, packaging format, and production-line demands.
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Ashford has intensified scrutiny of unsafe food entering Great Britain. New figures show the scale of seizures, temperature breaches, and disease-related interceptions at the border.
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Crane NXT has completed its acquisition of Antares Vision, bringing inspection, detection, and track-and-trace technologies for food and beverage into a newly established detection and traceability segment.
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Vietnam is pressing ahead with a wider overhaul of food safety law after disruption caused by Decree 46, with a more decentralised enforcement model now emerging.
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3-A SSI is recruiting technical volunteers to revise five hygienic design standards used across dairy and food processing, with publication targets set for later this year.