Category: Topics
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Amcor will showcase UniPak Luma at Stockholm’s Empack packaging exhibition. The polypropylene platform extends its lightweight rigid range across dairy, chilled, ambient-filled, and dry-food applications.
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Fresh Factory completes Illinois consolidation as packaged production volumes rise. The manufacturer produced 14.6 million units in Q2 while absorbing residual ramp-up costs across its new two-site footprint.
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BW Converting expands Pour & Lok across resealable food packaging. The pre-applied closure can run through conventional form-fill-seal equipment and targets pourable products including cereals, snacks, nuts, seeds, and selected frozen foods.
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New framework ranks microbiological risks across dried food ingredient chains. The approach combines pathogen evidence, product use, supply-chain history, and downstream controls to support proportionate mitigation decisions.
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Amai Proteins has secured Israeli approval for sweet protein sweelin. The clearance covers more than 25 food and beverage categories and expands the precision-fermented ingredient’s regulatory reach.
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Wholechain and iFoodDS have linked seafood traceability systems for suppliers. The integration allows standards-based data exchange across Trace Exchange while businesses prepare for FDA’s expanded lot-level recordkeeping requirements.
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ByHeart has advanced its restart plan after FDA review milestones. New testing, supplier qualification, sanitation measures, and preventive controls now sit at the centre of its post-outbreak manufacturing programme.
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Tesco has recalled a chilled salad over possible STEC contamination. Three use-by dates are affected, putting renewed attention on microbiological controls across short-shelf-life ready-to-eat production.
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Scottish food groups oppose statutory caps on essential grocery prices. Twenty-three organisations say production, refrigeration, packaging, employment, energy, and distribution costs must be considered before controls are imposed.
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Irish food producers face softer exports and persistent margin pressure. First-half exports fell 3% to €9.1 billion while manufacturers continued investing in automation, AI, and operating efficiency.