During a recent Food 2030 conference at the Agriculture University in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, University College Dublin (UCD) proposed a new partnership model to build capacity for agri-food sustainability. Europe is losing
Ireland’s largest bagged salad producer and specialist in prepared vegetables, Willowbrook Foods, has marked the tenth anniversary of its Innovation Centre in County Down, describing it as instrumental in helping
NZMP, the global ingredients brand of Fonterra, has released new research showing the impact of NZMP SureStart™ MFGM Lipid100 (also known as NUELIPIDTM) supplementation to provide milk fat globule membrane
Today, 90% of organic chemicals are based on fossil fuels, meaning they are based on non-renewable resources. 70% of proteins in the European Union are imported. An alternative is needed!
Responding to consumer concerns about food quality and fraudulent practices concerning food, the European Commission has launched a Knowledge Centre for Food Fraud and Quality, operated by the Joint Research
Irish start-up business Blendi came away as a big winner at the World Food Innovation Awards 2018. Blendi, which was a finalist in two categories at the awards, ‘Best New
The 2017 winner of the Teagasc Gold Medal is Connie Conway (pictured left). The Teagasc Gold Medal is awarded on an annual basis to a member of staff who has
University College Cork has announced the appointment of Jim Corbett (pictured) as Director of the Food Institute UCC, which will be officially launched in 2018. The Food Institute UCC is
Teagasc and the European Commission will co-fund a new programme which will employ 20 new experienced researchers for 36 months each, over the next five years. These fellowships aim to
Nuritas, the Irish biotechnology company, and Nestlé have entered into a collaboration aiming at discovering bioactive peptide networks within specific target areas of significant value. In order to achieve the
A new book, ‘The Psychobiotic Revolution’, is having a major impact in the field of biomedicine. It reveals that our brain health and state of mind are intimately connected to our
UCC’s Limited Lactis team was awarded a gold medal recently at the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) competition in Boston. More than 600 teams from top universities across the globe,
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, announced on Thursday awards of over €28 million for collaborative inter-institutional research projects under the Department’s competitive research funding programmes.
Origin Enterprises plc and University College Dublin established a €17.6 million, five-year agriculture and crop science research programme, UCD announced on Monday. The collaboration combines the leading expertise of UCD
The agri-researchers from academia and companies in Ireland have been awarded a total of €6.32 million in the most recent round of EU funding from the Horizon 2020 research and
CyberColloids was set up in 2002 by four founding members with a vision to provide outsourcing of every aspect of the hydrocolloids world. With many years of experience in the
Ballina-based Oculer has revealed a new ground-breaking system that may be the biggest microbiological breakthrough in the dairy industry in 100 years. The Irish firm has unveiled a ground-breaking system for
Kerry Group, the global taste & nutrition and consumer foods group, opened on Thursday a new Global Technology & Innovation Centre to serve the Group’s global and regional customers in
Researchers at the APC Microbiome Institute in University College Cork and University of Naples Federico II have shown that a Mediterranean diet rich in fruit and vegetables is linked to
Mary Anne Carrigan reports from UCD Engineering Graduates Association’s Autumn Panel Discussion, where experts warned that we face major food shortages if we do not tackle climate change and increase
Event for packaging industry suppliers to take place at new location, concurrently with world’s leading trade fair. Following its debut at interpack 2014, “components for processing and packaging” will return
Three Irish students from Cork have made it onto Time magazine’s annual list of most influential teenagers, alongside Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and New Zealand singer Lorde. Ciara
Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow from Kinsale Community School were last night named the overall winners of the Grand Prize as well as the 15-16 Age category at
An early-stage business idea focused on using wireless sensors to monitor environmental conditions in chicken barns to improve poultry production
Scientists from the University of Glasgow have claimed to have cracked the process of creating hydrogen fuel from water 30
The 2014 Google Science Fair Global finalists have been announced and, among the 15 projects selected from teenagers around the
The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that increasing coffee consumption by
Treating food products with select bacteriophages—viruses that target and kill bacteria—could significantly reduce concentrations of E. coli, a new study shows.
Clare-based food diagnostics firm AltraTech has secured significant financial backing after developing a single-use test kit that can identify the
Gluten-free foods have suffered from a bad press over the years. It has been seen as low quality, with poor
There is clear evidence of a decline in the reproductive efficiency of Irish beef cow herds, according to Teagasc, and it
A new strain of genetically modified potato appears immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the great Irish Famine of
As the abundance of genetically modified (GM) foods continues to grow, so does the demand for monitoring and labeling them.
A new study, the first of its kind in the UK, indicates that shoppers are more likely to buy healthy
Leading health experts from across the globe have united to form ‘Action On Sugar’ – an unprecedented call to tackle
The Food Standards Agency, in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is carrying out a study
As part of continuing expansion at leading Irish sensory, scientific and consumer research firm, SRL Research has announced a merger
T-Stór, Teagasc Open Access Repository, has been included as a participating repository in RIAN, the national open access portal, which
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