Packaging is the process of enclosing or protecting the finished food products for distribution, storage, sale and end-use. Rigid packaging has gained its important in food and beverage industry as it provides long shelf life to the packaged food items. Rigid packaging container includes bottles, cans, ampules, aerosol containers, aluminum bottles and jars among others. […]
Thanks to a patent-protected process, Russian firm BioTechnologies has developed a high-value plant protein from sunflower press cakes. “Most people are burning them but we can offer something interesting,” it says. Using sunflower press cakes as a raw material, a by-product from the sunflower oil industry that contains around 39% protein, the Moscow-headquartered firm extracts three […]
As Spain becomes the latest country to bring in mandatory country of origin labelling for milk and milk-based products, the European Dairy Association (EDA) has blasted the European Commission’s “laissez-faire” approach. The country’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment notified the European Commission of its draft legislation on indicating the origin of milk […]
