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The EU’s new smartphone

2 February 2017 | By ,

All too often food quality and safety testing is an inefficient, expensive and ineffective process, sometimes unable to ensure food safety for all consumers and unable to prevent major food fraud incidents. Here Michele Suman and Michel Nielen explain why a paradigm shift in quality and safety testing is urgently…

Defining the term ‘natural’ in food and beverage

2 February 2017 | By Petr Menšík| Manager, EU Affairs| ECCO, The European Consulting Company

The 'natural' trend is one of the biggest at present in the food and beverage industry. Just how important is a clear definition of what precisely constitutes natural for the industry? Petr Mensik investigates...

The perils of detecting pathogenic bacteria in foods

1 February 2017 | By

Testing foods for microbes may seem archaic when compared to testing for the presence of chemicals. After all, chemists get to use very expensive grey boxes with blinking lights and labelled with an alphabet soup of acronyms. Not only that, they can sometimes do screens of hundreds of analytes in…

Food Fraud – Are you insured?

1 February 2017 | By

If you’re making a food claim, it is your responsibility to ensure you validate it, says Food Forensics’ Managing Director, Alison Johnson. Many problems centre on claims, often for a premium product. Where premiums are available or supply and demand is out of kilter, the risk of adulteration or substitution…

The flavour trends that will take off in 2017

25 January 2017 | By Deb Murray, Anderson Partners Food Ingredients

New Food asked Deb Murray from Anderson Partners Food Ingredients to give us an insight into which flavours will come to define 2017...

Microbial metagenomics and the food industry

17 January 2017 | By Greg Jones, Campden BRI

In New Food's latest coverage on the topic of what genomics can do for the food industry, we explore insight from Greg Jones at Campden BRI and his expertise on microbial metagenomics...