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Farmer Invests $15 Million in Dairy Equipment

Here is a really inspiring story of a small producer investing in a state of the art technology and getting support from the Industry – it should give us all the faith to tackle what seems out of reach.

 

from: FoodStuffSA.co.za (click image for full story online)

 

Basically Anton Homsec has built [...]

Food & Process Engineering Technology – Free Online Information

I, as a chemical engineer, am really excited to find a book like this on line and easily usable.

The book is on SCRIBD which has been called the youtube of documents. Although posters on SCRIBD can make their posts downloadable this one does not, so you can only stream it.

The clip [...]

Farm Fresh Products – African Food Processing Company

Integrated Dairy Farm Limited (IDF) produces Farm Fresh Dairy Products.

 

from: Farm Fresh Products (click image for full story online)

 

IDF produces about a million litres of milk a year which is sold as milk, yogurt, butter, cheese and whipping cream.

 

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How To Brew Beer According To GEA

GEA the multination food and brewing equipment company has a sophisticated presentation of how beer is brewed.

 

from: GEA (click image to run presentation)

 

The presentation consists of 17 pages which represent Unit Operations in the brewing process. Each page has short and simple text explaining the process, clickable animations of processes, [...]

South Africa – Apple Orphans?

I have often complained about Apple, iTunes and the App Store in South Africa.

At last blogging from the iPhone

Apple iPhone in South Africa South Africa’s apps store is gameless

We pay more for our iPhone and get practically nothing! We are unable to communicate easily with Apple and it seems like the [...]

International Food Science & Technology Congress – SA 2010

Its not only the World Cup that we are waiting for in 2010, there is also the 15th World Congress of Food Science and Technology.

 

from: IUFoST 2010 (click image for full story online)

 

The Congress is being held under the auspices of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) [...]

Organic Food Sales Slump – What of Other High Cost Trendies?

As this Blog said but some people tried not to see, the sales of organic foods have slumped drastically in the UK, falling a fifth in a year.

 

from: The Independent (click image for full story online)

 

Actually this was inevitable but the question it raises is what of the other trends [...]

Spore – Free Online Food Processing Information

Spore is the monthly publication of CTA, an ACP-EU institution working in the field of information for development, that focusses on smaller scale agricultural production and post harvest operations.

 

from: CTA (click image for full story online)

 

The February edition included short articles on Top schemes for women and ICTs, Reviving maize, [...]

Free Online African Food Science Journal

Here is another free source of Food Science literature.

 

from: African Journal of Food Science (click image for full story online)

 

This seems to be a source of papers of high standards on Africa specific topics. The topics covered in this the latest edition are:

Quality of fufu processed from cassava mosaic [...]