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Major non-sugar sweetener aspartame has been classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) joint expert committee on food additives (JECFA).…

The establishment of Study in Greece (SiG) as a national agency supported by Greek state is the latest step in an ongoing process to unlock a world of educational possibilities and deepen international collaboration to revitalise higher education in the country.…

Increased automation in label production will result in increased efficiencies, especially for major food and beverage companies, industry experts have told Packaging Gateway. “We see automation making real progress in the labels market and expect to see investments in the technology growing,” said Simon Mitchell, head of the British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) Labels Special Interest Group.…

High energy and raw material prices and wage inflation have been pushing packaging sector converters to reduce waste, and hence costs, with the added benefit of helping the industry meet growing sustainability requirements from regulators and consumers.

Sensing a market opportunity, many packaging converters were already targeting sustainability, developing innovative packaging materials and designs to cut packaging weight and promote re-use and recycling.…

Tightening de-forestation regulations in major oils and fats markets are having an increasing impact on palm oil producers, who say they are being targeted unfairly.

The European Union (EU)’s deforestation-free regulation (EUDR) (1) that entered into force June 29 (2023), and will become binding from December 30, 2024, will lead to higher prices and supply difficulties for palm oil importers, EU and supplier country experts argue.  …

The is optimism within the Irish dairy industry that the acute trading challenges caused by Brexit may have abated thanks to the Windsor Framework deal between the European Union (EU) and the UK that amended the Northern Ireland Protocol. Producers and traders hope that the changes will give some certainty to an Irish dairy processing industry that relies on seamless transit across the Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland border and onto Great Britain.…

The Portuguese canned food sector, internationally known for its canned fish lines, is thriving – thanks to tourism and innovation, despite the many supply chains issues that it still faces.

Statistics Portugal (Instituto Nacional de Estatística – INE) data suggests the sector is growing fast, with Portugal having exported EUR 305.3 million’s worth of canned fish products in 2022 (provisional data), 20.3% more than in 2020.…

The secretiveness with which China guards its tobacco news and figures – even of tobacco leaf production – says much about the state’s priorities under President Xi Jinping. This strongman leader who has of late prioritised security/repression over economic growth, has blocked the site of the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC), the national tobacco monopoly, to users outside China.…

Human trafficking and modern slavery have grown exponentially in recent years: in 2021, 50 million people worldwide were estimated to be living in modern slavery, 10 million more than in 2016, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). (1) These crimes – sometimes referred to with the acronym HT-MS – are extremely profitable, ahead of narcotics and arms trafficking, according to Tarana Baghirova, programme officer at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Europe.…

The signing of the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) may have created one new trade deal, but it is regarded in contrasting lights by the two countries’ respective dairy industries.

On the UK-side, industry association Dairy UK regards this as an unequal deal, giving British exporters little to leverage.…