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Signals of change across the food sector: ingredients, climate claims and global trade

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New research linking popular sweeteners to cognitive decline has again raised concerns over their safety. What does this mean manufacturers?

 

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The UK’s first crop of ‘low‑carbon’ potatoes has arrived on supermarket shelves, marking a milestone in efforts to prove that more sustainably produced foods can secure both retailer backing and mass‑market consumer uptake

 

Nestlé just removed chocolate… from chocolate

Article by The  Future of Food

On a quiet Friday (the kind of day corporations choose when they’d rather the world not notice), Nestlé, the single largest food company on Earth, announced it is moving away from real cocoa in one of its chocolate product lines. That’s not a minor recipe tweak. That is a seismic signal that the era of chocolate as we know it may be ending.

 

Exports critical to U.S. beef industry

Article by Feed stuffs

The past several columns have followed a thread of value differentiation and the link to consumer valuation that’s increasingly driven by improved beef quality. On the flipside, the most recent column detailed the absence of consumer prioritization related to country-of-origin labeling. Those columns were all from a domestic perspective. Let’s round out the discussion with some perspective around international trade.

 

As cultivated meat firms crumble, warning signs were long apparent

Article by Meating place

ARISA’s report examines how leading global fashion brands’ growing reliance on textile recycling and circularity initiatives has failed to address, and in some cases obscured, serious labour rights risks faced by workers in recycling facilities in India and Pakistan. While brands increasingly promote recycled fibres and take-back schemes as evidence of sustainability, the research finds that recycling operations remain largely excluded from brands’ human rights due diligence processes.

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