Food Industry

The UK food industry is calling on the government to deliver a massive economic package to ensure it can continue to feed the nation, including seconding hospitality workers to “to plug the gaps that are already appearing on our production lines”.Leading food businesses reassured environment secretary George Eustice at a…

Optical anticounterfeiting, typically using luminescent materials to encode and unveil hidden patterns, plays an essential role in countering fraud in trademark, document security, food industry, and public safety. However, this technique is often realized through color-encoded fashion and in the visible range, preventing high-order encryption as well as visualization through…

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Cleaned-out shelves at a Manhattan Whole Foods on Friday. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Shoppers stocking up on supplies have overwhelmed grocery stores across the country over the past few days, as schools close, employees are sent home, and cities and states adopt drastic social distancing measures. In New…

Photo: James Beard Foundation The James Beard Foundation announced this afternoon that the organization’s three awards ceremonies will be postponed until summer 2020. According to the statement, “as of now,” finalists for this year’s awards will still be named on March 25 in Philadelphia, as previously planned. “We are mindful…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in China and the railway disruptions across Canada represent two different yet similar classic case studies. They remind us that nations and global economies are becoming increasingly interconnected. Incidents thousands of kilometres away are being felt locally. This is a…

When a pair of students at the University of South Carolina learned that a beloved employee at a local Wendy’s was struggling, they took it upon themselves to help him out. Robert Caldaroni and Alexis Braz say Malcolm Coleman, who works at a Wendy’s near the campus in Columbia, is…

While insect-based foods have so far been a niche product, they are viewed as a highly promising solution to the challenges facing the food industry. Although new EU regulations should pave the way for these products, European eating habits will have to change too. EURACTIV Germany reports. Since the start…

Opinion The food industry and our public health agencies have long recognized that they share the same responsibility to protect consumers from unsafe food.  The modern food industry is, however, growing more diverse, dynamic, and complex. making the application of food protection throughout the broad spectrum of operations a challenge…