Technology & Innovation

“Freshness algorithm” to save Walmart $2 billion on food waste

8 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

Using USDA specifications and its own standards, Walmart has created an algorithm that prioritises the flow of perishable goods worldwide.

UK farmers given ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to shape future

1 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

A Government consultation, ‘Health and Harmony: The Future for Food, Farming and the Environment in a Green Brexit’, launched this week, has been welcomed by the Food and Drink Federation as a first step in highlighting some of the challenges the food sector faces.

Consumer food testing devices: threat or opportunity?

23 February 2018 | By Dr Bert Popping - FOCOS, François Bourdichon - International Dairy Federation (FIL-IDF)

Technological advances are bringing regular consumer testing of food for quality and safety closer to reality. Food safety consultant François Bourdichon, and Bert Pöpping, of FOCOS, discuss the implications of consumer testing for the industry.

Country Profile: United Kingdom

16 February 2018 | By New Food

In this Country Profile we consider the implications of automation for food safety and we take a look at both the growing wine industry and strong independent craft beer trend in the UK.

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Nestlé to work with biotech firm on ‘bioactive peptides’ through AI

9 February 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

Details are sparse on the research collaboration between food and drink giant Nestlé and a digital biotech company based in Ireland.

“World’s safest” marking system could be on the market within a year

7 February 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

Unhackable, random markings on a digital key have been developed by university researchers to fight against pirated products.

Project to bring robotics and automation into raw materials handling

6 February 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

A joint university-food industry project has set out to tackle the costly and labour-intensive area of raw material handling, weighing and preparation through automation and robotics.

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The end of the cucumber flyers: harvesting robot under development

5 February 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

Changing labour costs are causing a migration of the labour-intensive cucumber farming industry out of Germany to Eastern Europe and India. Researchers in Berlin have set out to develop technology that will keep the nation's cucumber production 'commercially viable'.

Plugging a £200 million hole: GS1 UK on a new product data platform

2 February 2018 | By Jim Dickson | Head of Retail and Grocery | GS1 UK

GS1 UK, the not-for-profit organisation behind the barcode, is launching productDNA:hub this year, a single, shared platform that provides a uniform catalogue of product data and imagery that could boost the UK grocery sector by as much as £20bn. Jim Dickson is Head of Retail and Grocery at GS1 UK…

Whitepaper: Bringing the Power of PCR DNA Identification to Food Safety

1 February 2018 | By Hygiena

When the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was discovered nearly 35 years ago, it ushered in a revolution in biology.

Discover the latest in artificial intelligence technology with OAL

18 January 2018 | By OAL

Discover how OAL are using the very latest in artificial intelligence technology to protect brands from costly human errors in the food manufacturing industry at Empack 2018, a show dedicated to the future of packaging technology...

Big data could soon improve decision making for farmers and fishermen

16 January 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)

A project co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme is looking at how massive flows of information collected from the soil, the air and satellites can boost agriculture and aquiculture.

Video: BAX System X5

15 January 2018 | By Hygiena

Fast, accurate, easy to use...