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Innovations in Food Testing Tech: Ensuring Safety From Chemical and Microbial Contaminants
Technology Networks
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Food safety is a key priority in the food industry due to the health and economic risks from contamination and adulteration. Each year, millions of food samples are tested worldwide to detect contaminants, verify labeling and ensure compliance...
ODOS closes €680,000 to drive sustainability in the agri-food sector
Tech.eu
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July 9, 2025
The Irish start-up driving climate action in the agri-food sector, ODOS, has closed a €680,000 funding round. ODOS is a climate-tech startup helping companies take effective climate action without sacrificing productivity. By simplifying data...
WHO Launches Initiative to Tax Tobacco and Beverage Corporations to Boost Public Health
Inter Press Service
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July 9, 2025
Development & Aid, Education, Global, Headlines, Health, Labour, TerraViva United Nations Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), delivers a message to multi-stakeholders on the prevention and control...
Letters to the editor: A challenge to Republicans; contribute to a food bank; voters must show themselves
Daily Camera - Colorado
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July 9, 2025
A challenge to Republicans I am watching Republican legislators very closely. In 2023, they passed HR2, Secure the Border Act, the first immigration legislation with real teeth (unlike all other Democratic legislation, it has a mandatory e-Verify...
Avocado sector fights back after Wimbledon ban #WorldAvocadoOrganisation #Wimbledon
Leisure Opportunities
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July 9, 2025
Job opportunities The Pickaquoy Centre £30,900pa + Local Govt Pension + attractive benefits package location: Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom more jobs The World Avocado Organisation (WAO) has warned Wimbledon that banning avocados from its menus...
Avocado sector fights back after Wimbledon ban
Spa Business
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Wimbledon has banned avocados, a staple of the health and fitness and spa and wellness sector Fears about the environmental impact of growing avocados in vast quantities is behind the move The World Avocado Organisation has pushed back, giving...
Trump tariff triggers massive job loss fears in Bangladesh, panic grips garment industry
Firstpost
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July 9, 2025
The fear of job losses is rippling through Bangladesh’s garment hubs as US President Donald Trump’s 35% tariff on the South Asian nation threatens orders from its main export market and crimps the country’s biggest industry. The readymade garments...
Driver shortage in haulage sector is a risk to the economy warns Tipperary TD
Tipperary Star
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July 9, 2025
Urgent action to address the shortage of drivers in the haulage sector is needed to safeguard the movement of goods and protect Ireland’s economic resilience, a Tipperary TD has said. Fine Gael TD Michael Murphy, who is also Chairperson of the...
RTÉ crèche hit with food closure order due to rodent droppings in kitchen
KildareLive
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July 9, 2025
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reported that eight Closure Orders and two Prohibition Orders were served on food business in June for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and the European Union...
UK confectionery brand Nomo celebrates honours at the Free From Food Awards
Confectionery Production
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Free-from confectionery brand, Nomo, is in celebratory mood after gaining a notable tally of three gold awards at the 2025 Free From Food Awards, reports Neill Barston. Since the accolades’ inception in 2008, they have sought to mark key talents...
Tanzania advances avocado sector with support from FAO
Africa Business Communities
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The United Republic of Tanzania is promoting avocado as a key driver of sustainable agricultural transformation under the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative. Led by the Government and supported by the Food and Agriculture...
EU announces plan to stockpile food, water and medicines over fears Putin will launch WW3 with European invasion within five years
Daily Mail
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July 9, 2025
The EU today announced its first ever plan to help stockpile essential goods such as food, water, fuel and medicines in case of crises, amid fears over potential war with Russia. Brussels' 'stockpiling strategy' comes as NATO warns that Russia -...
Benefits update coming for public sector retirees impacted by WEP and GPO
Federal News Network - Washington D.C.
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July 9, 2025
The majority of affected beneficiaries already began receiving their increased monthly benefit amounts in April. Michele Sandiford July 9, 2025 9:41 am < a min read Public sector retirees impacted by the Windfall Elimination Provision and...
Labour set to scrap HFSS food promotion ban in NHS overhaul
Asian Trader Magazine
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July 9, 2025
Key Summary HFSS multibuy and aisle promotion bans to be repealed under Labour’s 10-year NHS plan. New mandatory health targets and reporting system to replace blanket restrictions. Industry welcomes shift to “smarter regulation” and collaborative...
Travel Food Services IPO to close soon: Should you subscribe? Check latest GMP
India Today
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July 9, 2025
The initial public offering (IPO) of Travel Food Services (TFS), a company known for running food outlets and lounges at airports, is nearing its close. The IPO aims to raise Rs 2,000 crore entirely through an offer for sale (OFS) of 1.82 crore...
This Baltimore Food Incubator Is a Local Economic Engine
Next City
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July 9, 2025
Part retail space, part incubator for local ventures, Culinary Architecture shows how food-centered businesses can advance lasting neighborhood renewal. This piece is part of an ongoing series on women entrepreneurs addressing community and...
Travel Food Services IPO gets fully subscribed on day 3
Financial Express
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Indian airport restaurant and lounge operator Travel Food Services’ $234 million IPO was hauled over the finish line on Wednesday by institutional investors as risk-averse retail investors shied away amid U.S. trade deal concerns. The IPO, India’s...
There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather — or How Climate Change Is Damaging Agriculture and Food Security in Tajikistan
Times of Central Asia
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July 9, 2025
Over the past 30 years, cotton production in Tajikistan has dropped by a staggering 56%. Among the many contributing factors are a lack of investment, outdated agricultural technology, and, notably, climate change. While humanity is not yet...
Only one nation is self-sufficient in healthy food
Resilience
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July 9, 2025
Over a third of all countries cannot meet self-sufficiency for more than two of the seven essential food groups. Low self-sufficiency and over-dependence on a few countries for imports threaten their capability to respond to global shocks,...
School catering firms make millions while children eat Bad Pie
New Statesman
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July 9, 2025
Having been told about the horrors served for lunch at our local primary school – which include something described as a “vegetable biscuit” and a dish known among the inmates as “Bad Pie” – I remarked to one of the teachers that everyone thinks...