Israeli start-up Clarifruit wants to swap out ‘subjective, inconsistent, and slow’ manual quality control processes in the fresh produce supply chain for an AI-powered digital alternative.
Consumers' desire to eat better is having a strong impact across the fresh food sector from produce to prepared foods to meal kits, according to recent Nielsen research.
Additional questions on fresh produce have been added to Listeria foodborne illness questionnaires after suggestions an outbreak could have been detected quicker if they had been on there already.
Creative marketing and the convenience of processed foods is ousting fresh fruits and vegetables from diets in Western Europe and the United States, according to new research from Rabobank.
Researchers have found cold atmospheric plasmas (CAP) can tackle Salmonella but the bacteria can ‘hide’ in the bumps of strawberries and the pores in lettuce leaves.
A new US study claims to show that electrostatic spraying using organic acids could offer the fresh produce industry more effective protection against E.coli than current sanitation methods.
Use of electron beam irradiation on spinach and lettuce can significantly cut virus-related foodborne illnesses, said scientists as they questioned why take up of the technology was not greater by fresh produce industry players.
The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC) has criticised the "ineptitude" of the European Commission (EC), following what the trade body says was a poorly planned one-off advertisement aimed at reassuring UK consumers about the safety of fresh produce.
The European Commission has confirmed that fruit glazed with wax containing morpholine cannot be sold in the economic bloc because the additive has not been approved under EU legislation.
The UK’s clampdown on fruit glazed with wax containing morpholine is disproportionate and will trigger repercussions on a global scale, a trade body has said.
The grounding of airplanes throughout much of Europe has put the brakes on imports of some fruit and vegetable products, although trade groups and supermarkets are downplaying the impact of the Icelandic volcano on food stocks.
A new range of ‘breathable’ films can extend the shelf life of fresh produce by allowing the migration of gases through the packaging, according to its developer, UK-based Innovia Films.
The FDA published this week the final 2004 Produce Safety Action
Plan aimed at minimizing the number of foodborne illnesses that are
contracted each year through the consumption of fresh produce.
The risks posed by pathogens on fresh produce are the subject of an
extensive new review from UK-based food research group CCFRA,
reports Anthony Fletcher.
