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City Food & Drink Lecture: We can feed everyone sustainably, but it’ll be difficult

17-May-2023 By Bethan Grylls

Sir Charles Godfray led the keynote speech at this year’s City Food & Drink Lecture as he explored how we can address the biggest challenges of our time – feeding the population, while being sustainable and promoting healthy options for all.

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Data – the essential ingredient for driving innovation in food manufacturing

05-May-2023 By Georgia Carr

Georgia Carr, associate at intellectual property law firm Potter Clarkson, discusses the role of intellectual property in protecting data-driven innovations.

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How far can AI go?

04-May-2023 By Marcel Koks

Marcel Koks, Infor’s food industry strategy leader, asks what AI can achieve for the food and beverage industry.

The Talent Poole

Being a confident decision-maker

17-Apr-2023 By Jon Poole

Jon Poole interviews Keston Williams, Barfoots COO, who offers his perspective on nimble decision-making in the fast-paced world of food and drink.

6 ways to build a robust food supply chain in an unstable world

04-Apr-2023 By Manoj Dora

Professor Manoj Dora, Director, Centre for Intelligent Supply Chains & Chair in Sustainable Production & Consumption at Anglia Ruskin University offers six ways you can firm up your supply chain resilience in a rocky world.

Column: Food Forensics

Up your game when it comes to detecting food fraud

03-Apr-2023 By Alison Johnson

Following the news of recent food fraud incidents, such as the event which recently impacted retailer Booths, Alison Johnson, managing director at Food Forensics outlines three ways of preventing food fraud occurring in your supply chain.

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Challenges and developments in the food and drink supply chain

07-Oct-2022 By Gwen Ridler

With the food and drink industry under constant threat from global pressures such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, how has the supply chain managed to keep up and running and what new developments do operators need to be aware of?

HIM & MCA Insight launch new solutions with new brand, Lumina Intelligence

30-Jul-2020 By Gwen Ridler

HIM & MCA Insight is launching a new analytics and data visualisation solution that will bring all of the company’s data sources together.

Focus on supervisory control and data acquisition software

14-Jul-2016 By Paul Gander

While supervisory control and data acquisition software has critics, it remains essential to factory operations. 

Food manufacturers advised to plan for Industry 4.0

15-Jun-2016 By Eugene Smethurst

The food and beverage industry is changing fast, with connectivity and boundless data catapulting it into a new digital age.

‘Certify growing consumer data’

01-Mar-2011

Consumer data certification may be required as the amount and accessibility of consumer information about food and drink grows with the development of new technology.

Have you heard?

01-Jun-2010

Inaccurate product data is costing the food industry millions, says Michelle Knott

Single device eases batching and recipe management

25-Jan-2008

A new development from Sartorius makes batching and recipe management very easy. The Phase application kit for the Sartorius Combics Pro weighing...

Labs lead the .net revolution

06-Oct-2004 By Susan Birks

There is an IT revolution going on in food testing laboratories that will affect more than lab technicians -- it could change the way those in creative development, production, purchasing and finance work. Susan Birks reports