Sustainability - Articles - Page 26

Supply Chains

How to reduce food waste when supply chains are unpredictable

Food processors must use the tools that can help tame unruly supply chains to minimize waste and improve the bottom line

Wayne Labs

February 21, 2022

It is important for organizations to have a solid forecasting system in place for budgeting already, but even more so now with rising costs and inflation.

Kellogg to reward $2M to rice farmers for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

February 16, 2022

Kellogg Company announced a $2 million, five-year program that will partner with Lower Mississippi River Basin rice farmers to reduce their climate impact, ensuring benefits to people and planet are "ingrained" in our foods.

Novel technology uses 3D printing to fuse muscle cells into significant muscle fibers

Alternate Protein

Cultured meat that looks and handles like real meat

Novel technology uses 3D printing to fuse muscle cells into significant muscle fibers

February 14, 2022

The company has succeeded in accelerating the formation of real living muscle fibers and enhancing their quality to mirror key characteristics of farm-raised meat.

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Sustainability

EnTech Solutions provides clean job site energy to Agropur

Microgrids support the cheese maker’s sustainability goals

February 14, 2022

EnTech Solutions, a full-service clean energy solutions provider, has installed two renewable energy microgrids on the site of Agropur’s new 210,000-square-foot cheese production facility being built in Little Chute, Wis.

Food Packaging

New high-barrier, high-speed recycle ready liquid pouch solution

Kristen Kazarian

February 11, 2022

Amcor Flexibles North America has debuted AmPrima PE Plus. The recycle ready solutions provide brand owners with innovative packaging that supports recyclability in categories that have been historically challenging.

How high can corn and commodity prices go?

Commodities

Processors face higher commodity prices, but climate-smart technologies may help tame cost increases

While some studies point out the downside risks of commodity price increases and scarcities, farmers and their suppliers see the upside

Wayne Labs

February 10, 2022

The USDA says 2022 will be a great year for agriculture, and climate-smart farming practices can help.

Food Packaging

EMAP packaging helps French bean manufacturer

Kristen Kazarian

February 9, 2022

The FreshSAFE packaging system from MULTIVAC offers a method of producing equilibrium atmosphere (EMAP) packs, which optimizes the oxygen content in the packs in a continuous, natural and sustainable way.

Innovation

CULT Food Science completes strategic investment into leading cell-based chocolate producer California Cultured

The food investment company joins Jim Mellon's Agronomics Limited in backing sustainable and ethical chocolate to counteract the mass global deforestation and child labor used to meet the demand for cocoa

February 7, 2022

CULT Food Science Corp. has diversified its cell-based food portfolio via an investment into cultured chocolate manufacturer, California Cultured Inc., Davis, Calif. The company uses cell culture technology to produce cocoa products like cocoa powder, chocolate and cocoa butter with the goal of creating sustainable and ethical chocolate for consumption around the world.

Brewery converts spent grains to protein

Protein Recovery

Bavarian brewery testing a method to upcycle protein from spent brewers’ grains

In the past, spent brewers’ grains either went to farms, or brewers spent money to haul them away

February 7, 2022

Spent brewers’ grains not only provide a source of energy for a brewery, but can also provide a salable, high-value protein.

Innovation

Blind tasting of cultivated vs. traditionally grown chicken finds them indistinguishable

In a taste test hosted by SuperMeat, samples were indiscernible by a panel of professional chefs; potential for big impact on poultry industry

January 26, 2022

SuperMeat, a food-tech company that develops cultivated meat products, has announced the results of the first-ever blind tasting of cultivated chicken compared to traditional, conventionally produced chicken.