The first cucumbers grown in the desert using seawater and solar power were served to participants at UN Climate Negotiations in Doha . After a 10 month intense construction period, invited guests enjoyed the first tours of the Sahara Forest Project pilot facility, realised by Yara, Qafco and The Sahara Forest Project, a new environmental solution to produce food, water and energy in desert areas. ‘It is designed to utilise what we have enough of to produce what we need more of, using deserts, sunlight, saltwater and CO2 to produce food, water and clean energy,’ says Joakim Hauge, CEO of The Sahara Forest Project.
How can you ensure the accurate weighing of delicate food items of varying size and shape, while maintaining product integrity? After 25 years of packing 18 000 tonnes of dried pasta annually, Austria’s market leader Recheis Teigwaren still relies on Ishida multihead weighers.
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Perfect texture is essential for food to succeed in today’s competitive market. Orally, visually and manually – texture is assessed in many ways to determine a wide range of properties: hardness, cohesiveness, springiness, adhesiveness, fracturability and chewiness. Major food companies routinely apply texture analysis techniques both in new product development (NPC) and as part of quality control (QC) in finished processed food. Download this free white paper from Stable Micro Systems to learn how objective texture analysis can accelerate NPD, ensure consistent QC and maximise your product’s appeal to consumers.
The Orion range from Thermo Scientific will meet any potential application, measurement need, budget and various levels of functionality with a meter (both benchtop and portable) that configures to all needs. The new range Orion Star A and Versa Star range of meters available from Labotec consists of 24 models designed to handle any type of sample.
