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 Alternative non-meat product sales may be growing in the USA, but more product innovation, including in ingredients, may be needed say experts, to persuade American consumers to continue embracing this segment rather than sticking to natural meat.

After robust sales growth was noted during the Covid-19 pandemic as US consumers experimented with new food products at home, concerns that this market expansion may be slowing appeared last year.…

Until social unrest in November forced China’s communist party dictatorship to abandon its tough Covid-19 controls, its packaged food retail sales looked healthy and seemed in decent shape to produce solid revenue in 2023. Data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics showed that the cumulative retail value of grain, oil and food products produced in China were worth Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY903.2 billion (USD130 billion) in the first half of 2022, up 9.9% year-on-year (1).…

The European Union (EU) food and drink industry is preparing to lobby to improve reforms proposed by the European Commission to EU packaging and packaging waste legislation. Industry association FoodDrinkEurope has said they will “require significant improvements to be workable”. In particular, the association is concerned about mandates within a proposed regulation that food and drink companies ensure growing proportions of their packaging be made refillable or reusable.…

THE HUNGARIAN dairy industry and supporting government officials are looking ahead to incoming financial support from the European Union (EU) now that the European Commission has approved the country’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) strategic plan for 2023-2027. This has cleared the way for a ЕUR8.4 billion transfer in funding from Brussels, despite the friction between the EU and the Hungarian government, led by populist right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.…

THE UNITED Kingdom’s final exit from the European Union (EU) on December 31, 2020, after an 11-month transition period, has fulfilled predictions of disruption to the British and European can manufacturing industry, experts have told CanTech international. Indeed, feelings over Breit remain raw – one senior industry specialist, preferring to remain nameless, dubbed Brexit as, “the most stupid decision ever taken by UK politicians”.…

Sugar production and consumption are being targeted for spending in new national Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) plans approved by the European Commission as part of a new process to secure European Union (EU) food production funding. With EUR53 billion spent in 2022 alone, this is the EU’s largest spending programme.…

As the world’s largest vertical farm is set to launch operations in Gloucestershire later this year, proponents have lauded the sustainability benefits of the model. They say it has the potential to reduce agriculture’s physical and carbon footprint, growing more crops with significantly reduced water usage, zero pesticides and delivering fresher produce than traditional field-based models.…

The United Nations has let its authorisation for foreign actors to fight maritime piracy in Somalia’s territorial waters lapse, because its government and backers have become more effective in fighting this criminality. Ramadhan Rajab reports.

The UN Security Council’s decision to let Somalia take care of its own piracy problem does not mean shipping companies can rest easy about attacks off Somalia, but it does indicate its government is taking control of the problem.…

The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has told its member states that it expects their governments to actively combat fraud in spending under the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). That this is an ongoing problem was highlighted in a report for the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors issued in July (1).…

WORLDWIDE inflation is impacting the can making industry and its supply chain partners. Indeed, metal packaging prices have risen by at least 25% this year, according to industry association FoodDrinkEurope. A key reason has been soaring prices for energy used in manufacture, up more than 50% in 2022 according to the World Bank.…