Beijing was a hive of activity last week as regulators revised standards on an extensive range of food lines, and released draft regulations on online food services for public comment. First, the national food and drug watchdog announced its course of action after the State Council’s recently issued a national strategy on food safety as part of its the 13th Five-year plan, which will last until 2020.
Category: Food Science
Three 3M assays receive NF Validation
They use a workflow that is 30% faster than first generation assays thanks to lysis chemistry that uses nanotechnology and features a color-change indicator. Marie-Pierre Copin, 3M Food Safety’s European regulatory affairs specialist, said the validation for A Listeria and Listeria monocytogenes took one year and around nine months for Salmonella.
Robots’ influence growing in the food, packaging industries
Customization and variability are at an all-time high and food producers must keep up with the trends while trying to anticipate the future and robotics’ ability to provide flexible automation will be key in making the industry grow. The global food industry represents nearly $8 trillion of the world’s GDP, according to Plunket Research.