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Will an Owen’s law follow Natasha’s?

The CEO of Byron Burger says "current rules and requirements are not enough” after allergy death.

Smoothie start-up upcycles fruit and veg waste: ‘Why not make a product that people don’t throw out?’

A Danish start-up is dehydrating fruits and vegetables for smoothies to reduce food waste – 40-50% of which is made up of this surplus, ‘aesthetically unappealing’, or overripe produce.

‘Best before, often good after’: Unilever adopts anti-food waste labels on food packaging

Unilever is placing a new packaging label directly after the ‘best before’ text on certain food products: ‘often good after’. The initiative, developed in collaboration with Too Good To Go and industry players, aims to reduce food waste at the consumer...

Food tech investment data: VeganNation and Lezzoo

Investments in European food tech cooled as the mercury rose in Europe this August. But app-based delivery firm Lezzoo and vegan marketplace concept VeganNation were still able to whet the appetite of investors.

‘Cultivated’ meat could be the most-consumer-friendly term for cell-cultured meat, suggests Mattson/GFI research

The term ‘clean meat’ is confusing (and carries the tacit implication that regular meat is 'dirty’), while ‘cell-based meat’ – a more neutral term favored by some startups – doesn’t poll well with shoppers. ‘Lab-grown’ is a food marketer’s nightmare....

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