News on Energy and Environment

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):

Collaboration among the Washington State Potato Commission, federal research labs and three Northwest universities has resulted in the award of over $2 million in USDA grant funds targeted for research to improve pest management in potato fields.WSPC D...

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 ...

Walmart today announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index during a meeting with 1,500 of its suppliers, associates and sustainability leaders at its home office. The index will establish a single source of data for evaluating the s...

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...

Ground breaking for Shearer’s Foods Massillon Production Facility Phase I took place Tuesday, July 14 on site. Ohio’s First LEED Gold Certified Food Manufacturing Plant is being constructed in the NEO Com Industrial Park. The initial phase will house p...

With the growing availability of industry data, and given the significant growth in imports between 2007 and 2008, it is estimated that the retail value of organic food in the Canadian market reached C$2.1 – 2.6 billion in 2008.The main categories of o...

In Barneveld staat het enige bedrijf ter wereld dat uit aardappelzetmeel verpakkingen maakt. 100 procent biologisch afbreekbaar en niet na te maken.‘Kijk, dit is onze nieuwste innovatie.’ Trots toont Mark Geerts (53) een dichtklapbare verpakking voor r...

New results released today from a national survey, one of four annual surveys conducted by the Shelton Group, show most Americans are trying to buy more green products, but many don’t have enough knowledge to make meaningful choices. When asked, &quot...

De hoeveelheid duurzame palmolie die EU-landen importeert, is gegroeid tot meer dan eenderde van het totaal aan palmolie. Dat meldt de Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). De organisatie spreekt van een mijlpaal, te danken aan producenten in Zuid...

Cavendish Farms, one of North America's leading producers of frozen potato products, unveiled a critical vital new element in their environmental action plan, and a first for the potato industry in North America.

Having started his company in 2001 during one economic skid and persevering through another in recent months, James Goldberg, president of Old Lyme Gourmet Co., received a call one day from Wal-Mart.They wanted to carry Deep River Snacks, his line of ...

Recently Frito-Lay started a campaign in the US to show consumers where their bag of Lays Chips was manufactured and even where the potatoes for that specific bag were grown: the Chips Tracker. In the ads, Frito-Lay features potato farmers growing their chips potatoes in California, New England, Texas, Michigan and Florida.

Afgelopen zaterdag en zondag hebben ruim 500 bezoekers culinaire aardappelgerechten geproefd bij één van de drie stands van Agrico tijdens het landelijke ‘Lekker naar de boer!’ weekend. Het evenement werd voor de twaalfde keer georganiseerd door Biolog...

In cooperation with scientists of the University of Hamburg and the Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe (FNR) Emsland Group conduct successful attempts, where starch-based flocculation agents could replace synthetic polymers for the use in the Hamburge...

Natural and eco-friendly offerings continue to draw operators' attention as demonstrated by the products showcased in the Organic &Natural and Green Restaurant Products pavilions at the 2009 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel S...