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Canada to invest in food innovation

4 May 2017 | By

The Canadian government has announced plans to invest C$120,000 to support the Canadian Food Innovators (CFI) science cluster in its efforts to connect food and beverage makers to resources available through research centres, universities and food technology centres.

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Functional ingredients – from fiction to facts

20 April 2017 | By ,

Food habits have greatly evolved in recent decades. In addition to aspects such as taste, quality, safety, and convenience, consumers now also expect processed food to be nutritious and sustainable. Factors such as our ageing population; growing levels of obesity and type II diabetes; and increased occurrence of cardiovascular diseases…

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Designing sensors to detect foreign bodies in food

31 March 2017 | By Elhuyar Fundazioa; New Food

Researchers at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and the Navarre-based company Anteral S.L. have designed a novel system of sensors to improve quality control in the food sector and based on terahertz technology.

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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…