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Food provenance group sets out aim to ’empower the consumer’
Happerley has created a trade network that provides certification for food suppliers by tracing their products right back to the primary producer.
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Whitepaper: Gelatine Species Determination – to aid labelling claims
A new approach to gelatine testing...
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Professor Chris Elliott
11 January 2018 | By
Professor of Food Safety and Director of the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast.
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Study gives rare glimpse into supermarket’s sustainability scheme
In one of the first analyses of a company-led sustainability programme in the food and agriculture space, Stanford researchers found a major grocery chain fostered increased adoption of environmental practices at the farm level.
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IKEA launches chicken welfare programme
Better known for its furniture, IKEA has a growing food services branch. Now it has announced a series of programmes aimed at sustainably sourcing the ingredients that go into the products it sells.
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Post-doctoral researchers needed for food choice policy lab
A food security organisation is looking for academics for a three-day workshop aimed at uncovering what influences food choice and how those factors can be used to encourage consumers to make healthier and more sustainable decisions.
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Scientists identify exploitable genes to bolster citrus fruit against climate change
A hormone signalling pathway has been identified that may help boost citrus fruit's tolerance to the effect of global warming, including the widespread flooding on farmland.
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World-famous lab begins work on genetic project to save cocoa
MARS has teamed up with scientists at a world-famous lab to create cacao trees that will be resistant to disease, safeguarding the crop's future.
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The Sins of Seafood
4 January 2018 | By Agilent
With seafood and aquaculture being the most valuable and highest traded commodity in the world, it’s an industry which inevitably is the most susceptible to fraud...
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University creates new tool in fight against antimicrobial resistance
Researchers have created an online tool which gives dairy farmers and vets the means to closely measure and monitor their antibiotic use.
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Northern Irish food and agricultural research projects awarded £2 million
Several food and agricultural research projects in Norther Ireland have been awarded nearly £2 million in funding between them. The research projects all focus on improving food safety, security and transparency right through the system. They include Food Fortress, a scheme investigating an effective surveillance system for detecting and preventing…
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British caterers are selling unsustainable fish, investigation finds
So-called ‘red-rated’ species are on the menu at restaurants and canteens across the UK, prompting a sustainable seafood campaign group to urge companies to rethink their buying policies.
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Potato blight’s chemical attack mechanism explained
Scientists have unravelled the problem of potato blight, an outbreak of which famously brought about the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s and 50s.
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Source tracking for the food industry
Recent advances in rapid, high throughput DNA sequencing have revolutionised the study of biology, and have the capacity to do the same for food safety and security.
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UK’s dairy industry smashes its environmental targets
Dairy UK has added to its list of environmental credentials by surpassing its targets by boosting water, primary energy and raw effluent efficiency.
