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Considering putting it in a can? There’s a website for that…

26 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

A new website has been launched to help new businesses get to grips with that slipperiest of topics: the drinks can.

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Get set for Brexit – see the full line up for Food Brexit, chaired by the John Pienaar

25 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

With less than a week to go, time is running out to catch food business experts putting their heads together over the challenges of Brexit.

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Indonesia getting warmer – and it could be down to palm oil production

25 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia have been cut down to make room for crops like oil palm and rubber. Now research suggests the this change in the Southeast Asia region's temperature.

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Drones and 3D imaging could help farmers measure crop height

24 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Researchers in the USA have found a way to replace intensive manual measurement with 3D imaging captured by drones.

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UK sign up to the Dairy Declaration of Rotterdam

24 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Representatives from the UK dairy industry met in London last week to show their commitment to the values enshrined in an international declaration.

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Is your baby food product fully protected?

23 October 2017 | By Reinhold van Ackeren.

After a recent blackmail case in Germany in which baby food was poisoned with ethylene glycol, we hear from Mettler Toledo about tampering protection.

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Antelope perfume drives flies away from cattle

23 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Scientist have used an 'antelope perfume' to keep tsetse flies from cows, cutting sleeping sickness rates by 80 per cent.

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‘Clarity by Christmas’ – Food and Drink Federation chief urges diplomats to get their skates on

20 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Commenting on the European Council Summit in Brussels, Ian Wright CBE, FDF Director General welcomed what progress had been made, but added that the clock is ticking.

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Global programme seeks to contain serious threat to the world’s bananas

19 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

FAO and partners launch campaign against new Fusarium Wilt strain that jeopardises livelihoods reliant on the world’s most traded fruit...

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Sustainable packaging to attract consumers in 2018

19 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

A study on consumer trends has pegged sustainable packaging as one to watch as food manufacturers move into the new year.

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Thousands of new samples sealed in Svalbard seed vault

16 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

To mark World Food Day, the Crop Trust supported the deposit of 4,335 samples to be squirrelled away deep inside a snow-covered mountain.

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Pope urges governments to work together to assure food security

16 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Pope Francis asked nations to collaborate in making migration a safer and voluntary choice, arguing that assuring food security for all requires tackling climate change and ending conflicts.

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Global health bodies launch road map to combat bovine tuberculosis and its transmission to humans

13 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Bovine TB can be transferred from cows to humans through food, killing 12,000 people a year. A new plan maps out how global health bodies will fight back.

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More than just a Millennial craze – quinoa may hold the key to creating more salt-tolerant crops

12 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

Particularly troublesome to the drier region of the world, soil salination is a significant factor in soil erosion, a problem endangering the food supply of the whole planet. The key to tackling it may come from the quinoa plant, a crop that has more than trebled in popularity in the…

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Brexit could slash the average British farm’s profit in half

11 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)

A new report paints a dark picture of the worst case scenario of leaving the European Union - but the message is 'get fit for the future'.

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