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Sensor Film in Packaging Detects Food Deterioration.

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 [...]

Do Food Processors Give Consumers Less Than They Think.

The finding of this study reported on in Science Daily raises the question of how well the food manufacturers are, or want to educate the consumer to understand what their products contain and how this compares to other products.

from: Science Daily (click image for full story online)

So the consumer has understood [...]

Consumers Design Chip/Crisp Flavour

I bought this interesting packet of potato chips (crisps to others) a few days ago as I was interested to see the face of a white housewife seemingly advertising chips on the supermarket shelf.

photo by Dave Harcourt (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License)

 

However it turns out to be something quite [...]

Business Manual – Setting Up and Running a Small Fruit or Vegetable Processing Enterprise

This is another food processing based business manual by Peter Fellows like others I have reviewed eg Business Manual – Small-scale Root Crops and Tubers Processing and Products Free Online Information – Milling & Baking Enterprise Design Processing Fruit & Vegetables

The latter being similar to this manual but with more of a technology focus [...]

Advertising Claims in 2008

Once agin its interesting to look at what claims have been made by new product launches in 2008.

 

from: Food & Drink Europe (click image for full story online)

 

Mintel, who derived the results from their Global New Products Database, found that globally 23 % of all new products launched made [...]

More Organic Foods in the Food Crisis

In a previous post I looked at some UK & US information that focussed on the expenditure of consumers on organic foods as the food crisis pinched with price rises.

Now Food Processing reports on a spending survey of over 1 000 consumers.

 

from: Food Processing (click image for full story online)

 

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Food Trends Viewed Through Labelling

Food & Drink Europe report on the the frequency of new product label claims determined by International market research company Mintel.

 

from: Food & Drink Europe (click image for full story online)

 

This kind of information gives some kind of view of the trends in what the consumer wants. Some previous [...]