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A year after the signing of the contract between North Water and AVEBE, the new process water plant was commissioned. With this process water plant, AVEBE was able to improve the quality of the water that comes into contact with starch products in th...

De gemiddelde opbrengst van Bintje consumptieaardappelen bedroeg vorige week in België 30 ton per hectare. Dat is meer dan het tienjaarlijks gemiddelde. Het Belgische Proefcentrum voor de Aardappelteelt (PCA) heeft vorige week de eerste proefrooiinge...

Fresh potatoes take a starring role and inspire families to build them into their weekly meal repertoires.Thanks to its innovative ‘Me for a Day’ life swap experiment, which was captured on film and has been airing nationally, the Potato Council’s camp...

Some EU 5 countries have amended their estimates of planted area for the 2009 crop over the last month. In Holland the Dutch Statistical Office published results of its May survey of growers which shows Ware plantings at 68,800 ha, which is now slightl...

Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded.There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce, UK researchers found. The Food Standard...

The Agency is today launching a consultation on its proposals to introduce voluntary recommendations for food manufacturers for reductions in saturated fat and added sugar and increased availability of smaller single-portion sizes in a number of key ...

Between January 2008 and June 2009, Mintel (Global New Products Database) tracked a total of 88,364 new food and beverage product launches throughout Europe. The most frequent claims made on these are (in descending order):

McCain Foods (GB) Ltd have announced the appointment of Helen Priestley as Marketing Director. In her previous position Priestley championed McCain Food’s main ingredient, the Great British potato on behalf of the Potato Council where she worked for 10...

La buena producción y excelente calidad del tubérculo, incluso a bajos precios, no ha servido para incentivar el consumo de la patata nacional, ya que las cadenas de distribución se han abastecido directamente de patata vieja extranjera, principalmente...

The Potato Council’s estimate of total potato plantings for 2009 has been updated from the provisional end-June area of 129,100 ha to a revised figure of 130,268 ha.This is very close to the final published figure for 2008 of 130,200 ha. The revised fi...

Aviko uit Steenderen moet een geldboete betalen van tienduizend euro waarvan de helft voorwaardelijk.De frietfabrikant moet de boete betalen omdat het bedrijf op 22 december bijna 1600 kilogram koudemiddel HCFK had gelekt. Het middel wordt gebruikt vo...

What sort of bounty could possibly lie in piles of discarded potato peelings?“We have been interested in by-products for quite a while now,” says Dr Nigel Brunton, a senior research officer with Teagasc who works with phytochemicals derived from plants...

The UK government has unveiled plans to cut carbon emissions in a bid to tackle climate change.The Low Carbon Transition Plan calls on farming to reduce emissions to 6% lower than the level predicted for 2020.It suggests this should be done through an ...

A UK Government initiative on anaerobic digestion that includes using food and bioplastic packaging waste to create energy could play a key role in helping cut landfill volumes, said an industry body. The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) welcomed the go...

This Food Surveillance Information Sheet (FSIS) reports the results from the second year of a three-year rolling program, which commenced in 2007, to measure the levels of the process contaminants acrylamide, furan, ethyl carbamate and 3-monochloropro...

U.S fast food company McDonald's Corp (MCD) will move its European headquarters from London to Geneva later this year due to concerns over taxes in the U.K., the Sunday Telegraph reported. The report said McDonald's, which opened its first restaurant ...

The economic downturn has not created a 'health crunch' when it comes to new product innovation, suggests research conducted for the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) by independent consultancy Mintel's Global New Products Database. Based on its tracki...

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