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TOMRA Sorting Food today announced it has hired food industry veteran, Mark Host, as the company’s Sales Director for the Americas.

Key Technology introduces the highest capacity digital sorter in the food processing industry – the new VERYX® B210.

A smoothie based on 'potato milk' is expected to be commercially available next year. The product is made using a patented process using an emulsion of potato and omega-3 oils as a dairy replacement developed at Lund University by Eva Tornberg.

#getfried Fry Cafe, a quick-serve restaurant franchise that offers a variety of topped French fries and finger foods, is experiencing explosive growth throughout the United States, with locations currently in development throughout Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Santa Clara and Egypt.

Luis Miquel, Gerente General del Consorcio Papa Chile, destaca el avance sistemático de enfermedades cuarentenarias, enumera sus causas y consecuencias, y hace recomendaciones para solucionar los problemas estructurales del cultivo.

Certis USA has entered into an agreement with Corpoica, the Colombian Corporation for Agriculture Research, to license Corpoica’s Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) strain NPV003 and formulation technology for a biopesticide against the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda).

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has a new Chairman as a result of its December 4th Board of Directors meeting.

Arby`s is testing a massive sandwich stuffed with curly fries: the Arbynator

Last week North Korea's State News Agency shared a number of pictures of Kim Jong Un touring a new potato factory in Samjiyon, near the Chinese border.

Deep River Snacks, a US company manufacturing premium better-for-you snacks based in Connecticut, was acquired by Arca Continental, the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and parent company of the snack companies Wise Snacks, Bokados and Inalecsa.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 175.8 points in November 2017, down fractionally (0.5 percent) from October but still almost 4 points (2.3 percent) above the corresponding period last year. A sharp rise in sugar and vegetable oil quotations was largely offset by a fall in dairy values.

McDonald's Japan offers American Inspired Cheddar Cheese Potato Balls for a limited time

Novidon - a company that adds value to potato starch isolated from side streams of potato processing companies - introduces new branding.

McCain UK is opening a Roastaurant where one can sample 100,000 possible roast dinner combinations.

GRIMME Group has joined forces with TOMRA, the global leader in food sorting solutions. The partnership will result in the industry-leading TOMRA FPS (Field Potato Sorter) being integrated into C to create the GRIMME PowerCombi solution.

Food waste is a global, billion-dollar problem. The White Paper “It’s time to end food waste” explores the origins, the reasons and some exciting solutions for the global food waste problem.

La compañía australiana tna ha ampliado su línea de soluciones de pelado al vapor de alta eficiencia Florigo ultra-peel® SSC 3 para papas, minizanahorias y otros vegetales.

Se trata de un juego de tres ruedas didácticas, a través del cual, productores y técnicos determinan cómo afrontar la enfermedad. En la decisión influyen las condiciones climáticas y el tiempo de la última aplicación.