Barry Callebaut has announced that 51% of its raw ingredients were sustainably sourced during its fiscal year 2018/19, in a move to address sustainability challenges in its chocolate supply chain. Published in Barry Callebaut’s Forever Chocolate Progress Report 2018/19, the company highlighted that it sourced 47% of its cocoa beans and 54% of its other […]
Blockchain can trace and record transactions to strengthen food management, safety and quality in the food industry. We explore what 2019 developments have done for embracing blockchain in food, and where we can expect it to head next. European retailers and food manufacturers are maximising their efforts in food tracking to optimise transparency in the […]
UK company Winnow saves its foodservice customers $25 million each year by reducing their food waste footprint. We look at it and other services that can reduce the $1 trillion problem that is global food waste across the supply chain. “We find that if you measure food waste and use analytics to understand it, putting […]
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is coordinating with partners including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Grupo Bimbo, Dow Chemical, the FEMSA Foundation, IBM, and Oxxo to fight food waste across Latin America and the Caribbean. The #SinDesperdicio platform aims to tackle the more than 127 million tons of food wasted across across Latin America and the Caribbean every […]
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is celebrating National Food Safety Week in the United Kingdom by recognizing the work of FSA staff and thousands of others across the food supply chain working behind-the-scenes to ensure that food is safe and what it says it is. Under the banner of “the people who protect your plate,” […]
The European Commission is launching a public consultation on how Europe’s food supply chain can be made “fairer”. The Commission is gathering data on the “necessity and expedience” of possible measures that could be implemented at a European Union level to address or regulate “unfair trading practices with respect to agrifood products”. The Commission noted […]
