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Dr Michael Hardman from the School of Enviroment and Life Sciences from Salford University talks to AZoCleantech about relocating the growing of food to urban areas.

Apart from an advanced level of automation, the Romaco Unity 500 also offers opportunities to improve overall equipment effectiveness. Optimized access to all components speeds up and simplifies cleaning of the blister line. The fast product changes add up to significantly less downtime for the Romaco Unity 500. Blister formats from Romaco Noack can be created quickly and easily using the new BlisterMagic software. The system checks automatically whether the desired formats are feasible based on product specifications. 

A Bon o Bon is a milk-chocolate shell over a crisp wafer filled with a flavored cream. Every day, factories in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil produce 3,000 of the sweet treats every minute, and 70 percent of production is exported throughout the world. In 1989, the brand helped establish Sweetness Week in Argentina, a clever marketing campaign that encourages candy lovers to exchange confections for kisses. It worked: Candy sales in Argentina rise about 20 percent for a week every July. The candy’s tagline? ‘‘Where there is emotion, there is a Bon o Bon.’’

"While most raw grain has been not harmful, not historically been a problem, I think the U.S. is becoming a leader in food safety," Daneen says. Companies want to get "ahead of" potential recalls.

According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the land that the militants seized was Iraq’s most fertile, and at the group’s height, the fields that were harvested accounted for 40 percent of the country’s annual wheat production and more than half of its barley crop. In Syria, the group at one point controlled as much as 80 percent of the country’s cotton crop, according to a study by the Paris-based Center for the Analysis of Terrorism.

Snacking across the board will take a turn toward the fancy, and snacks, as they start to usurp the usual three-meals-a-day routine, are anything but ordinary. Snacking has become an occasion of its very own — think charcuterie or cheese boards for one, one-ounce portions of Cypress Grove cheeses paired with demi-baguettes as desk snacks and more mini meals. More takes on snacking nod to the comforting treats of your second grade lunchbox, with better ingredients. Portable snack packages will feature bites like prosciutto and aged mozzarella, and artisanal versions of classic snacks like cheese or peanut butter cracker sandwiches. Ingredient-conscious snack and treat makers are creating new packaged snacks that take us back to our treat-loving childhoods but with higher quality ingredients, some of which are updated to accommodate special diets. Upgraded retro treats will star on 2019’s shelves — candy-coated Project 7 Organic Chewies burst with intense fruit flavor and are gluten free; Smashmallow’s marshmallow and puffed rice treats are gluten free and made with organic sugar; Little Secrets Crispy Wafers are long crunchy rectangles dipped in fair trade chocolate.

What Zuckerlwerkstatt calls rock candy is about as far from the American version as it gets. The round, smooth confections look more like millefiori glass designs from Venice than something you should eat: They include beautiful, tiny sugar depictions of everything from fruit to slogans to company logos. An Austrian couple, Maria Scholz and Chris Mayer, were on vacation in Sweden when they stumbled on a candy factory and fell in love with candy making. Back home, they sought out artisans who knew the old Austrian way of making hard candy by hand. In 2013, the couple opened a manufacturing facility in Vienna, producing beautiful candies with as many as 80 layers using only three tools: scissors, spatulas and their bare hands.

Is it possible to both understand AND enjoy regulatory news? Yes! Our regulatory watchdog breaks down the latest developments, but with a twist. Attorney Eric Greenberg, whose practice includes packaging law and food and drug law, summarizes new regulatory activities but also provides his unique and entertaining commentary.

The display can interact with the operator visually through images and video, making the panel quick and easy to use, which is ideal for quick-change pack formats, which can be explained in video tutorials customised by machine version and by the type of product to be packaged.  

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s younger brother Muhoho was yesterday named in Parliament as an importer of sugar.

Established in 1875, the BSE is the first ever stock exchange in India and in Asia. In India, it is the first entity to acquire permanent acknowledgement under the Securities Contract Regulation Act of 1956.

Its estimated that one in three marine mammals have been found caught up in some type of marine litter - lost fishing gear, nets and plastic bags for example - and that over 90% of seabirds have pieces of plastic in their stomachs. Seabirds who feed from the surface of the ocean are especially likely to ingest plastics that floats, and then feed this to their chicks. One study found that 98% of chicks sampled contained plastics, and that the quantity of plastic being ingested was increasing over time.