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    Lithuanian food-tech company Divaks has raised €3 million in seed funding to develop its high-quality insect-derived ingredients for the food industry. With the insect protein sector growing at a fast pace, Divaks is focused on creating...

  Fonterra has announced it will be closing the milk powder plant at its Brightwater site near Nelson in April 2023. However, milk collection and associated activities will continue at Brightwater as Fonterra moves its milk transfer activities...

  Government statistics show that the chance of living to 100 will double in the next 50 years. Yet, according to the State of Ageing 2022 report, there is a notable decline in those later years being spent ‘living...

Three leading global companies, Givaudan, Bühler, and Cargill, have formed a consortium in collaboration with the Food Tech Hub LATAM and Ital, Food Technology Institute, to build a food innovation center in the city of Campinas, recognized as...

Afresh Technologies Inc., which makes software that helps grocery stores reduce food waste, raised $115 million in new funding. The Series B round was led by Spark Capital. Insight Partners and VMG Partners also participated, along with Walter Robb, a senior...

  GEA launches its new CookStar 1000 spiral oven for manufacturers of roasted, crispy-coated and smoked products. The new oven is the next generation of the same trusted technology that has led the market for nearly 30 years,...

  Barry Callebaut detected on June 27, 2022, at its Wieze factory in Belgium a salmonella-positive chocolate production lot and quickly identified a lecithin batch from a supplier as the root cause. In response, Barry Callebaut halted all...

  PlantX Life Inc. (CSE: VEGA) (Frankfurt: WNT1) (OTCQB: PLTXF) ("PlantX" or the "Company") the digital face of the plant-based community, operating a one-stop shop for plant-based products announced the international expansion of its Little West cold-pressed juice brand and...

  MeaTech 3D Ltd. (Nasdaq: MITC), an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultured meat industry, has become Steakholder™ Foods Ltd. (Nasdaq: STKH). Beginning in 2019, the company set out to develop the technology and scientific...

  Remilk, a global leader in the development and production of animal-free dairy, has signed a strategic commercial agreement with Central Bottling Company (CBC Group). As per the agreement, CBC Group will develop and launch a new line...