Everything must be packed - ideally in a sustainable and recyclable manner and with as little packaging material as possible to reduce waste. This topic is currently occupying the packaging industry and food manufacturers and that is going to be a dominant theme for some time still. After all, packaging ...
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By Swati Solanki*   Ultraviolet radiation (UV), an electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths measuring from 100 to 400 nanometers, is becoming a more popular technique in decreasing or eliminating pathogens from food and beverage products. UV light applications are used for odor control, sterilization, and elimination of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) ...
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By Chris Brown and Thomas Roden* In Denmark, 51.0 percent of men and 65.8 percent of women take one or more dietary supplements. With an increasing number of users across the European continent, it is essential that more must be done to ensure product fidelity and ultimately protect consumers. Though ...
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By Anurag Mishra* With more than 30,000 fatalities and 700,000+ infection globally (as of 29th March 20), Coronavirus has affected the entire world in all possible ways. All developed countries like the USA, Canada, UK and other EU countries have been affected like never before and developing counties like India ...
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By Dr. PA. Raajeswari, S.M. Devatha*   Dry storage is one of the ancient and traditional food storing techniques. Dry storage means the storage of shell stock out of water. The products stored under dry storage don’t require a climate-controlled environment. Items placed in dry storage generally have a long ...
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By Shikhangi Singh, Ranjna Sirohi and Dr. Anupama Singh   Introduction Consumer’s demand for healthy and nutritious food has ignited food processing industries to look for alternative innovative technologies that can produce high-quality food ensuring food safety. Innovative food processing technologies could be used as a tool in a value ...
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Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, has introduced the newest automatic defect removal system for potato strips – ADR EXOS™. As the only vision system on the market designed specifically to cut out defects from potato strips, ADR recovers french fries with defects and turns ...
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By Georg Hübner* X-ray systems secure the product quality and improve the production sequences at the Bavarian company Privatmolkerei Bechtel. From a small brook to a large river The picturesque Naab meanders gently through the Upper Palatinate. It grows from a brook to a river over its course from the ...
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Eccentric disc pumps can reduce waste and create notable product-recovery savings in hygienic food and beverage, pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturing applications By Johann Fourrat-Besson* Product waste in hygienic manufacturing industries such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics has long been accepted as an unavoidable “cost of doing business.” The ...
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Food and Agriculture Organization has defined Shelf-life as “The period during which the product maintains its microbiological safety, regulatory Compliance and sensory qualities at specific storage temperature.” Shelf-life of a product can be determined by taking Microbial conditions (Usually followed for Meat and meat products) or Sensorial attributes (Most of ...
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