This week's top food and beverage news
The impact of COVID-19 on the lobster industry
Kevin Fagan highlights the challenges faced by the lobster industry during the pandemic, and paints an optimistic picture of its future. Coronavirus was particularly detrimental to the food industry. Lockdown and restricted movement affected the production and distribution of food worldwide. Within the food industry, the lobster market took a massive hit.
Analysts?state?that COVID-19 protective measures implemented in March 2020 across the US and worldwide immediately impacted the seafood sector. Read more
Arla introduces new sustainability incentive model
Arla has earmarked up to three eurocent per kilo of milk for farmers' sustainability activities to reach the 2030 emission reduction target on farms. Read more
One in three people bin a bagful of shopping each week
A Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) research report reveals that nearly half of respondents throw away as much food or more than they did this time last year. In the recent WRAP report, it has highlighted that consumers all over the globe are continuing to waste food, even when millions are suffering from the?cost-of-living crisis. Read more
Circular food economy: a solution to the climate crisis
With fewer than 50 days to go until COP27, all eyes are on Egypt, with world leaders getting ready to gather to discuss and evaluate their progress on climate action and limiting global temperature increase to 1.5C. Read more
Podcast
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Episode 29 – Food price inflation and cost of living
The?New Food?Podcast calls on two experts, Professor Chris Elliott and Dr Richard Volpe, to discuss why inflation is affecting food prices so brutally across the globe, and what food safety concerns might arise as a result.?Listen now
New Food?Issue 4 2022
Issue 4 2022 of?#NewFood?takes stock of current and emerging food safety concerns with an especially sizeable food safety In-depth Focus, including expert insight from 14 professionals. You’ll also find articles around future foods, beverages, aquaculture, inflation, lab testing and more!?
LinkedIn poll results
Have your say with?#newfoodtalks?LinkedIn polls. In this week's poll, we asked 'Should we scrap use-by dates on some products to reduce food waste?' It was nice to see our community discussing and commenting on how this might affect the food and beverage industry.
The results are in. Do you agree?
We share a new poll on Mondays and the results are shared here first in this newsletter.