Sam Cole, Director of Food Contact Evaluation at NSF As global awareness of the health and environmental impacts of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) continues to rise, industries are facing increasing pressure to eliminate these “forever chemicals” from their products. The NSF Certification Guideline 537 is a groundbreaking standard designed[Read More…]
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SGS to open state-of-the-art food and nutraceutical testing facility in USA
The demand for this testing is rising due to several factors, including food safety regulations – such as the FSMA SGS is the world’s leading testing, inspection, and certification company, opening a new state-of-the-art food and nutraceutical testing facility in the United States. With New Jersey and neighbouring states being one of North America’s largest food[Read More…]
Hong Kong suspends import of poultry products from areas in US
Hong Kong imported about 16,480 tonnes of chilled and frozen poultry meat and about 7.73 million poultry eggs from the US in the first three months of this year Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced that notification from the World Organisation[Read More…]
Nestlé collaborates with suppliers to address climate change impact on cocoa
The five-year projects will promote agroforestry, accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture and support the reforestation of degraded lands around cocoa farming communities As part of its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, Nestlé has launched two new projects, developed with suppliers Cargill and ETG | Beyond Beans,[Read More…]
Vietnam’s Sai Gon Food partners with Anchanto to achieve e-commerce growth
Sai Gon Food embraces a comprehensive digital distribution strategy, eyes cost optimisation with powerful SaaS solutions Saigon Food, a leading Meal Manufacturer and Supplier in Vietnam, announced a partnership with Anchanto, the global e-commerce SaaS technology company in a move to scale to boost efficiency and achieve e-commerce operations. Sai Gon[Read More…]
13th GPCA Agri-Nutrients Conference to be held in Qatar in September
On 17-19 September 2023, the conference will be held at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha, Qatar, under the theme “Sustainable Transformation in Practice – The Future of Agri-Nutrients.” The 13th annual edition of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) Agri-Nutrients Conference will take place from 17-19 September 2023 at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha,[Read More…]
SKP to expand sustainable food packaging and cutlery range in Singapore
Moving towards a more product-innovating direction, further expanding and diversifying eco-friendly product range Seow Khim Polythelene Co (SKP), Singapore’s largest and leading supplier of disposable food packaging, has announced its intentional step to meet and serve the growing B2B and B2C need for food packaging through the manufacturing of its eco-friendly[Read More…]
Oterra picks Brenntag Nutrition as exclusive distribution partner in Australia
Meeting the growing demand for natural and clean-label ingredients Brenntag, the global market leader in chemicals and ingredients distribution, has announced the expansion of the distribution agreement with Oterra to include Australia, in addition to Bangladesh, India, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Oterra is the world’s leading supplier of natural food[Read More…]
Seafood industry in Australia resists push to reel in traceable wild fish
Origin of most seafood is untraceable, as it may have been caught illegally or unsustainably Seafood giants are resisting the push to use technology to trace wild seafood and clean up the industry as it may bite into their profits, a Monash University report reveals. The article found an oligopoly of big[Read More…]
Japan pushes development of next generation of food and beverage research
Shimadzu and NARO have been collaborating on joint research into functional ingredients in food products since 2019 Shimadzu Corporation and the National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation (NARO), in Japan, had opened the NARO Shimadzu Testing Laboratory in March 2022 in the Shimadzu Healthcare R&D Center. The collaboration aims to[Read More…]
