Noticias sobre la Investigación y Desarrollo

The United States Potato Board (USPB) grower membership elected new leadership during its Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, March 12-14. The following sections list the leadership for the coming year. CHAIRMAN             Bart Connors (Pasco , WA) DO...

Shane Webster of Rexburg, ID, was elected to the United States Potato Board (USPB) Executive Committee at the organization’s 36th Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, March 12-14. Webster is serving his third year on the USPB and first year as co-chairm...

Todd Michael of Urbana, OH, was elected to the United States Potato Board (USPB) Executive Committee at the organization’s 36th Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, March 12-14. Michael is serving his third year on the USPB and first year as co-chairman ...

The growth of food processing sector has nearly doubled to 13.7 per cent during the last four years, Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai said. "The food processing sector growth has reached the double digit at 13.7...

Op www.aardappel2008.nl wordt aandacht besteed aan de aardappel in eigen land. Zo is er informatie te vinden over de verschillende soorten aardappelen, de geschiedenis en de voedingswaarde. Ook staan leuke anekdotes vermeld met betrekking tot aardapp...

A brochure is available of the 17th Triennial Conference of the European Association for Potato Research.

Driven by increasing population, rising standards of living and disposable incomes in developing countries, the world vegetable oils market is projected to reach 138 million metric tons by the year 2010. With the mature North American, and European mar...

Europatat, the European Union of the Potato Trade, is inviting its members and the other links in the potato trade at its 60th general assembly in the Swiss capital Berne from 29 till 31 May 2008. The congress is composed out of 3 pillars: the commissi...

Acrylamide, that surprised scientists when it was discovered in certain foods might not be as big a concern after all, an Augusta researcher said. Dale Sickles, a neurotoxicologist and vice chairman of Cell Biology and Anatomy at Medical College of Ge...

The aim in developing the carbon reduction label has always been two-fold. The first is to encourage businesses to measure, and then reduce, the carbon footprint of their products. All the partners who adopt the Carbon Trust label commit to a “reduce...

McCain Foods is cutting production of frozen juice concentrate at its beverage plant in Grand Falls, N.B., eliminating about 30 jobs. McCain says the jobs will be gone by April 18 when it consolidates production in Toronto. The company says the move w...

PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) reported continued strong operating performance in the fourth quarter of 2007. Net revenue increased 17% in the quarter and reported operating profit increased 9%;core division operating profit, excluding restructuring items, increa...

The British Potato Council has hit back at claims it treated some growers unfairly by refusing to provide a rebate on their levy after their crops were destroyed by the summer floods.In a statement released yesterday (Thursday, January 31) the BPC said...

El presidente Alan García destacó hoy la necesidad de que los peruanos redescubran el valor de la papa procesada convertida en chuño, por su alto valor nutritivo, su mayor duración y su bajo costo.   Dijo que gracias a los procesos de congelamiento, e...

The British Potato Council (BPC) is to concentrate its efforts in regional press in a new PR drive in February to promote a week-long celebration of chips. The National Chip Week campaign, to run from 11 to 17 February, will feature recipes, celebrity...

A new United States Potato Board (USPB) website, www.potatogoodness.com, joined the Board’s online cache of resources championing the goodness and nutrition found in America’s favorite vegetable. This consumer website went live January 17, 2008 and re...

Super Bowl Sunday is the “Super Bowl” of snacking. Research by the Calorie Control Council and the Snack Food Association finds that Americans will eat 30 million pounds of snacks on the big game day. That breaks down to 11.2 million pounds of potato ...

With 2008 designated the International Year of the Potato, ten Latin American countries and Spain have formed the Latin American Network for Innovation on Potato Improvement and Dissemination, known as Red Latinpapa. The network was announced following...