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 […]
DuPont Nutrition & Health and Eurofins have developed and validated strain-level identification assays in probiotic testing, leading the way for industrywide product integrity and label accuracy. DuPont, a leading manufacturer of probiotics that are scientifically proven to have health benefits, routinely utilizes new technologies to improve its methods of strain identification. Eurofins will employ DuPont’s […]
A new regulation to clarify the status of novel foods is being introduced by the European Commission, which may help speed up time to market. The European Commission is bringing in a procedure that will enable manufacturers to obtain a relatively quick determination of whether a product falls into the classification of […]
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 […]
