Published: Dec 17, 2012 By: Foodmate team

President Nick Bozick recently “flipped the switch” on an advanced 300kW photovoltaic solar energy system at its packinghouse in Mecca, California.

Published: Dec 14, 2012 By: Foodmate team

NIFES scientists have achieved a world first by developing a gene bank for the fish species Labrus bergylta, the ballan wrasse. Now they are ready to share their genomic library with other users.

Published: Dec 14, 2012 By: Rod Addy

A simpler way to detect allergens in food samples has been devised with the launch of a new device for mobile phones developed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Published: Dec 13, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Organic catalysts are highly concentrated and are either injected directly into wastewater streams or deployed through spray or fogging systems.

Published: Dec 13, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth ,

Neogen Corporation has upgraded its rapid lateral flow test for Salmonella Enteritidis targeting faster results for the poultry industry.

Published: Dec 07, 2012 By: Foodmate team

JBT FoodTech has announced that it has signed a rotary sterilization technology contract worth $5m with a North American food processing firm.

Published: Dec 07, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division (ABD) has introduced a mobile site – CALCohol - to allow consumers quickly calculate how much alcohol they are consuming.

Published: Dec 06, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Maine Root has deployed Marlborough-based content security company Content Raven’s solution to protect sensitive information when sharing it with vendors.

Published: Dec 03, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration is developing a promising software tool that will help dairy foods manufacturers to create the food defense plans that will be required as part of the implementation of the Food Safety and Modernization Act.

Published: Nov 29, 2012

NeoMedia Technologies, a provider of mobile barcode solutions, has announced that it has granted Kraft Foods a worldwide, non-exclusive license to NeoMedia’s patents related to mobile barcode resolution.

Published: Nov 23, 2012

Corkbin has launched its updated version of the wine app with features like offline mode, wine label recognition, online purchasing, wine postagram and graphical enhancements.

Published: Nov 22, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Virginia-based Mobile Wine Deals has unveiled their new iPhone app that is meant to bring consumers close to their favorite wine merchants, distributors and brands.

Published: Nov 20, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is said to be shuttering a program that is designed to assist in the surveillance of food-related outbreaks.

Published: Nov 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

UK-based Shopitize has announced that Kellogg’s and United Biscuits have signed up to trial its brand-to-consumer cashback mobile couponing service.

Published: Nov 13, 2012

The UK government and key stakeholders are planning to invest £12m in a new center aimed at supporting energy efficiency in food sector.

Published: Nov 07, 2012 By: Rick Pendrous

Nanotechnology and other novel technologies will be more widely adopted as ways of extending the shelf-life of food and drink products in the future.

Published: Nov 02, 2012

TÜV SÜD, a company known in the field of testing, inspection and certification services, on Wednesday inaugurated a state-of-the-art consumer product testing laboratory at Gurgaon, its largest testing laboratory across India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Published: Oct 26, 2012

Purfresh, Inc. today announced that the European Patent Office has granted patent No. 2107936 to Purfresh, entitled “Shipping Container Ozonation System.”

Published: Oct 26, 2012

The Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering & Technology (CIPHET) will be conducting a training course on Micro Encapsulation Methods for Food and Biotechnological Applications from Nov 27-30, 2012.

Published: Oct 25, 2012

Soon after the genome sequencing, the pathogen origin, the set up of rapid detection techniques, the definition of the cycle of disease, the field trials on the effectiveness of compounds in reducing the spread of the bacterium, Italian research has obtai