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Highest ever attendance at Regional Conference for Europe
This year’s Regional Conference for Europe, hosted by Uzbekistan, received its highest ever attendance when it gathered to discuss new and persisting challenges.
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How food and beverage manufacturers can digitalise to drive agility and product quality
Cheryl Armand looks at how businesses can best make the move to digital and achieve enhanced operational agility while keeping a strong focus on maintaining optimum food quality standards.
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Robotics for primary food handling tasks
For many decades we have witnessed the increasing use of robots for end of line palletising tasks and, more recently, their successful roll out for secondary packaging operations. In this article, we explore whether the ‘Holy Grail’ for robotics in the food sector - namely, their use for primary food…
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Featured article: The key to making great beer
Effective yeast management should be top of any brewery’s agenda. Here, Professor Chris Boulton shares his wisdom on why this is so crucial and how excellent beer can be achieved every time.
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A model solution for saving bananas
Researchers have developed an innovative solution for quickly identifying diseased banana crops, enabling them to be tackled before they take hold or spread.
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Aleph Farms shoots for meat making on the moon
Innovative meat cultivation company, Aleph Farms, has launched a pioneering R&D programme that aims to produce real meat steaks in the remotest parts of the world…and even space.
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The morning after
With low-alcohol drink culture on the rise, hangover-free ‘alcosynth’ could be a game changer, giving a long-neglected industry a shot at redemption.
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Self-driving labs: from science fiction to science fact
New insights into the plausibility of a fully-automated laboratory are giving industry food for thought.
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Grilled beef flavour produced using Artificial Intelligence
In a move toward enhancing the eating experience of plant-based ‘meat’ products, a Swiss perfume and taste company has announced its creation of the first AI-produced flavour.
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Terahertz tool detects frost damage in crops
A collaborative group based at the University of Adelaide has tested the viability of a new imaging system to detect frost damage in crops.
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Looking toward a small farm future
The food and farming sector faces a period of turbulence in the near-term with Brexit, COVID-19 and numerous uncertainties about trade deals, labour inputs and farm succession. Yet this is as nothing to what awaits in the longer-term future barrelling towards us. Here, Chris Smaje suggests why a small farm…
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‘Genomic time travel’ for better cattle
Scientists in Nairobi have discovered a new set of genetic markers in African cattle that signal beneficial characteristics, with a view to harnessing them for future generations.
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NIRS is saving farmers time and money in quality assessment
Researchers in Spain are applying a rapid non-invasive technique for assessing the quality of fresh spinach ‘in the field’ saving both time and money.
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Funding announced to study microbes to combat world hunger
University of California, Riverside has reported being awarded a grant for important funding to study microbes deep underground.
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Scent-conditioned honeybees boost crop yields
Researchers in Argentina have discovered that scent training honeybees has increased yields in their sunflower crops.
