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I’ve always been a bit of a disbeliever in relying on sell by dates and quality management system for the food safety of cold chain products. The thing that always worries me is that once the product leaves the factory the manufacturer has no control over how the product is handled. If the refrigerated fish [...]
In a previous post we covered General Mill’s Innovation Network which is aimed at brining partners into their company’s research system.
Now an interesting call from General Mills has made it into the press.
from: General Mills Innovation System (click image for full story online)
Besides being able to pass the opportunity on to [...]
The ABC Hansen Africa website contains a broad range of good technical information on the products they sell.
There is a good section on milling equipment with brief descriptions of a range of mills explaining material milled, size, product and special characteristics. These include hammer, stone, plate and roller mills.
from: ABC Hansen Africa [...]
This Toolkit is online on the FAO’s INPhO website (International Network of Post Harvest Operations).
It is a comprehensive collection of information that could be used by a range of people from the new entrepreneur looking to understand fruit products and processors to a processors considering expansion into new products.
from: INPhO (click image [...]
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This 96 page manual focusses on lesser know fruits – so much so that I in fact have tasted none of them! The fruits covered are amla, bael, ber, jackfruits,lapsi, persimmon, sugar apple and tamirand.
from: FAO INPhO (click to download free manual)
It is divided into four sections.
a short section covering measures [...]
This 450 page book is a comprehensive online manual for the entrepreneur in the meat processing business. Besides assisting him to run his business, the book is so comprehensive that its sure to assist in ideas for expansion.
from: FAO (click image for full story online)
The table of contents reproduced below show the [...]
TNO has recently publicised the work it has done on printing as a Unit Operation for the food processing factory of the future.
from: Food Production Daily (click image for full story online)
To me this is a fascinating thought and is based on the the fairly established Fab(rication) Lab concept where [...]
The use of dried and smoked fish is an important part of the diet of many poorer communities with access to fish either marine of fresh water.
Emeka Okafor of Timbuktu Chronicles, a really good blog with a focus on business successes in Africa, presents some technical information on fish smoking and drying.
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This 28 page document is the Food Vision of the British Frozen Food Industry.
from: British Frozen Food Industry (click image for full story online)
Although the document considers the British industry it is packed with information that would be of value to anyone, anywhere considering entering the frozen food market.
There are detailed [...]
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