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Cost and eco benefits from ‘revolutionary’ absorption system

09-Oct-2009 - that uses lost heat from baking ovens to power freezing units to temperatures as low as -10C. ... that uses lost heat from baking ovens to power freezing units to temperatures as low as -10C. ... Miwe Energy, which launched the eco:freeze system at the 2009 IBA show in Dusseldorf this week energy costs associated with oven and freezing costs in the baking industry were the main reasons

Longer shelf life for some RTE foods contributes to Listeria rise, expert

02-Oct-2009 - these can be up to twice as long. Euro survey The worries were voiced as the European Commission

Revolutionary food dehydration kit expands product range

18-Sep-2009 - processing sector.” EnWave said the system is more efficient than the freeze-dried process and can of around 80 per cent compared to traditional freeze drying methods,” Jennifer Thompson vice president

Demand for processed food drives China’s chilled produce sector

10-Sep-2009 - contacts and trade events. Priced at 1,256 euros, the report, Chilled Food in China 2009: A Market

New freezer boosts food processing hygiene

07-Sep-2009 - freezing,” said the company. “The new freezers also provide a constant source of reliable, real-time data

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Sonoco to raise Euro recycled paperboard prices

26-Aug-2009 - Sonoco to raise Euro recycled paperboard prices

Demand drop signals tough year for Euro flexible packing sector - Report

25-Aug-2009 - Demand drop signals tough year for Euro flexible packing sector - Report ... during the year as the increased value of the Euro made them less competitive. Imports and Eastern

Strong growth in nano-packing forecast, but Europe still cautious

24-Jul-2009 - . Euro-caution could change However, Europe has yet to embrace nanotechnology with the same

High Tech Food Processors Win IFT Innovation Awards

17-Jun-2009 - nutraRev dehydration technology. This process uses less than one third the energy of freeze drying

Rexam optimistic despite Euro beverage can blow

11-May-2009 - Rexam optimistic despite Euro beverage can blow

GFF tackles soggy veggie dishes

19-Nov-2009 - water content than instant quick freeze (IQF) varieties thereby preventing sogginess, the company claims. ... water content than instant quick freeze (IQF) varieties thereby preventing sogginess, the company claims.

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Life in a European health claims wasteland

09-Nov-2009 - endless wads of euros at scientifically-backed, healthy foods in greater numbers than ever before. ... endless wads of euros at scientifically-backed, healthy foods in greater numbers than ever before. ... of euros sucked from the economies of the EU. Don’t believe me? Ask Barry Callebaut. Ask GAT Food countless forms of voodoo nutrition so it can lift billions of euros from the innocent, ill-informed pockets

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Borregaard received biorefinery funding

28-Oct-2009 - the EU’s seventh framework programme for research and development. One of the projects, Euro from biomass. “Our role in EuroBioRef is to develop technology which degrades the biomass to sugars

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Chitosan marine compound claimed to remedy obesity

19-Oct-2009 - becoming a big player in this multi-billion euro worldwide functional foods industry industry, according

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Freeze-dried strawberries may slash cholesterol levels

09-Oct-2009 - Freeze-dried strawberries may slash cholesterol levels ... Supplements of a freeze-dried strawberry may improve cholesterol levels by about five per cent ... Supplements of a freeze-dried strawberry may improve cholesterol levels by about five per cent ... The freeze-dried strawberry powder, reportedly a concentrated source of polyphenolic flavonoids and insulin metabolism. “To our knowledge this is the first study investigating the effects of freeze

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Heat foreign berries to kill norovirus, urges Finland

09-Oct-2009 - and contagious during freezing. In order to safeguard against infection, users of foreign frozen raspberries

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Borregaard launches application-specific vanillin

09-Oct-2009 - operations, it said in March that EuroVanillin Supreme product had been found to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2

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Balchem hires de Boer to build Euro business

05-Oct-2009 - Balchem hires de Boer to build Euro business

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Inside-out approach to frozen food quality

30-Sep-2009 - the factory to the consumer's oven. Known as ‘freeze-thaw cycles’, these fluctuations can occur during ... freeze-thaw, AFS, stabilizers

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Scientists unite to stop omega-3 ‘Euro-mad rush’

30-Sep-2009 - Scientists unite to stop omega-3 ‘Euro-mad rush’

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