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Barcelona Packaging Hub launches

By Rachel Arthur

Seven packaging specialists have come together to create the Barcelona Packaging Hub: an entity born to respond to larger and more complex projects for customers around the globe.

The investment aims to turn Catalonia into a hub for alternative protein research. Image Source: agrobacter/Getty Images

Catalonia invests €7m into alternative protein research

By Augustus Bambridge-Sutton

The government of Catalonia, Spain has invested €7m into alterative protein research, one of the largest investments into the sector in Spain’s history. It will aim to scale up Catalonia’s plant-based and fermentation-made food production.

Heura collaborated with 450 schools across Spain. Image Source: xavierarnau/Getty Images

Heura collaborates with schools to provide plant-based nutrition

By Augustus Bambridge-Sutton

Plant-based meat company Heura has collaborated with schools across the Iberian peninsula to bring more plant-based meat to the diets of schoolchildren. Across 450 schools, it has introduced plant-based meat into school meals.

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‘Worrying’ pesticide levels found in Spanish foods

By Oliver Morrison

Ecologists in Spain are demanding a 50% reduction of the use of pesticides - especially those more toxic and unauthorized - after data revealed a ‘worrisome’ level of exposure of pesticide residues found in food in the country.

Spanish pork industry pledges regular supply

Spanish pork industry pledges regular supply

By Aidan Fortune

The head of the Spanish pork industry’s main trade body has pledged the sector will maintain regular activity despite the coronavirus’ impact on the country.

Spain is the second largest pork meat producer in the European Union. Photo: La Selecta.

Alimentaria 2020

Spain sees a rise in Halal meat for Muslim and non-Muslim consumers

By Jenny Eagle

Spain is seeing a rise in Halal meat for Muslim and non-Muslim consumers with Mercabarna (Barcelona’s wholesalers’ market) reporting 62% of its lamb and 56% of its beef comes from animals slaughtered according to Islamic law.

Interporc received a delegation from China to discuss trade relations

Spanish pork industry strengthens Chinese relations

By Aidan Fortune

The Spanish pork trade body Interporc received a delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture of China, headed by its vice minister, to advance relations between the two countries.

Alberto Herranz, director of Interporc, unveils the pork industry roadmap for the next five years

Spanish pork sector roadmap published

By Aidan Fortune

Spanish pork trade body Interporc has launched its new ‘industry roadmap’ for the sector that will cover the next five years.

WATCH: GMN visits Meat Attraction 2019

Meat Attraction 2019

WATCH: Meat Attraction 2019

By Aidan Fortune

Global Meat News travelled to Meat Attraction in Madrid to catch up on the latest in the Spanish meat sector.

The Espita Barrada or Crossed Grains Trademark. Pic: AOECS

Spain to adopt EU gluten-free licensing system

By Gill Hyslop

The Federation of Coeliac Associations of Spain (FACE) has pledged to use the European licencing system Espiga Barrada (the Crossed Grain Trademark) from 2020.

Josep Bonet: Alimentaria will

Alimentaria can help boost exports of Spanish meat

By Oscar Rousseau

Alimentaria is one of Spain’s big food and drink trade shows. With 550 meat companies expected to attend this year, organisers hope the meat industry can use the show to establish a stronger presence in international markets.

Mexico is already the main non-EU market for Spanish cured, cooked and preserved pork products

Spanish pork producers target greater sales in Mexico

By Robert Stokes, in Málaga

Mexican inspectors have visited 15 meat businesses in Spain as trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Mexico raise the prospect of greater exports to the Latin American country.

Weiss launches

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Weiss powder praline aims to cut waste

By Annie Harrison-Dunn

Powder praline will help confectioners cut waste and save production time previously lost with paste separation, says French chocolate maker Weiss.

Spanish meat producers saw healthy prices in 2013

2013 prices cheer Spanish beef and pork producers

By Robert Stokes, in Málaga

Spanish meat producers secured increasingly healthy prices in 2013 as the country crept out of recession in the second half, figures from its Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment (MAGRAMA) show.

Natra hopes to tap into positive perceptions of the Mediterranean lifestyle and diet

Could cheese-chocolate put Spain on the chocolatier map?

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

Natra is developing a range of Spanish olive oil, cheese and wine filled chocolates; the company hopes that the integration of these Mediterranean ingredients will put Spain on the map for chocolate.

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