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Food safety & hygiene

07 Jun 2023

Ensuring Food Safety: A Key Ingredient for a Healthy Future

By Staff Writer

Food is not just a source of sustenance; it forms the very foundation of our well-being. The safety of the food we consume plays a crucial role in protecting our health, promoting economic prosperity, and fostering sustainable development. As we celebrate the 5th World Food Safety Day on June 7, 2023, it is imperative that...
02 May 2023

HERMA label applicators for Gernep rotary labelling machines

By Staff Writer

Gernep, a technology-leading specialist for rotary labeling machines, currently installs a three-figure number of HERMA label applicators per year. Anyone who installs a three-digit number of HERMA 500 label applicators per year is someone whose judgment carries a good bit of weight. “The simple, standardised integration of applicators into our systems and their controls, their...
19 Apr 2023

Engen launches FoodPure food-grade lubricant range

By Staff Writer

Food-grade lubricants have come into the spotlight recently as an important issue in the operational maintenance of the food production and processing industry. Following the listeriosis outbreak of 2017 and the COVID-19 crisis that started in late 2019, food safety, and the conditions and maintenance of processing environments has never been more important. What are food-grade lubricants? While health and safety laws...
06 Jul 2021

Creating a culture of food safety

By Staff Writer

Establishing a culture of food safety in an organisation can be challenging, but it is also necessary. Here are some tips from AssureCloud for effectively implementing food safety protocols. Have you ever looked at a plate of food and wondered exactly what goes into making it? More than simply growing, nurturing and rearing the individual...
05 Jul 2021

Food safety is now the top priority amongst consumers after Covid-19

By Staff Writer

According to the new Tetra Pak Index 2020, released by Tetra Pak South Africa at the end of June, consumers from around the world have ranked food safety as their top concern after Covid-19. This global study, run by Tetra Pak in partnership with Ipsos (a global leader in market research), revealed that more than...
05 Jul 2021

South Africa ranks 69 on the 2020 Global Food Security Index Report

By Staff Writer

The 2020 Global Food Security Index Report, released in June, ranked South Africa as number 69 out of 113 countries in the study. These results show that the country has dropped two places since last year when it comes to issues surrounding food affordability, availability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience. Unathi Mhlatyana,...
23 Jun 2021

Emerson introduces world’s first non-contacting radar level transmitter designed for food and beverage operations

By Staff Writer

Compact, easy-to-use Rosemount 1408H Level Transmitter with IO-Link Connectivity provides accurate, non-contacting measurement to help optimize operations and ensure food safety. To meet the need for highly accurate and reliable level measurement in hygienic applications, Emerson has developed the Rosemount 1408H Level Transmitter, the world’s first non-contacting radar device designed specifically for the food and...
09 Jun 2021

How to be a food safety warrior

By Staff Writer

BY: Annelie Coetzee of Annelie Coetzee Consulting   An effective food safety management system is a preventive tool that enhances a food handling organization’s ability to produce safe end products and gives the assurance that the FHO has systems in place to manage food safety. Food handling organisations are aware that the food products handled...
04 Jun 2021

Intertek helps clients create sustainable food safety solutions

By Staff Writer

This year’s World Food Safety Day theme, “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow” emphasises that production and consumption of safe food has both instant and long-term benefits for people, the planet, and the economy. This is in line with Intertek’s “Build Back Ever Better” movement, it doesn’t believe that corporations or societies should settle...
02 Jun 2021

Consumers drive rapid rise in laboratory testing, inspection and certification

By Staff Writer

The need for laboratory testing, inspection and certification (TIC) has never been greater and is growing. A recent estimation of the value of the burgeoning global food safety testing market is that it could be greater than pass $7 688 million by 2025 and grow at an anticipated compound annual growth rate of 6.1% to...
01 Jun 2021

Food safety is everyone’s responsibility

By Staff Writer

World Food Safety Day raises awareness of the threat of unsafe food to human health and society. The event aims to draw public attention and direct efforts to stop the roughly 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses that occur annually. Poor food safety Every year one in ten people will fall ill from foodborne illnesses...
28 May 2021

AssureCloud ensures hygiene and safety throughout SA’s food value chain

By Staff Writer

South Africa’s fast-growing safety and testing powerhouse Safety SA has relaunched its Food and Occupational Health and Safety divisions to position the business for growth in an increasingly safety focused market. The division, under the banner of AssureCloud, is the largest group of sector-focused laboratories in southern Africa. Assuring safety from “farm to fork”, it...