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Can Packaging Help Reduce Food Waste?

There was a time when packaging in the food industry was designed simply to enhance product shelf-life, promote the brand and entice the target market to buy. Current demands on packaging design means there is a whole lot more expectations. Sustainability and environmental issues are top of the list.Growing Demands on Food Packaging In the high-tech 21st century a company is expected to clarify the ingredients of any food package within, state when the food product needs to be eaten by, how i...

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Healthy Food Trending in Malaysia

It’s unfortunate that the words “delicious” and “healthy” don’t always go hand in hand in the world of food. The foods we love to eat are, more than often, tend to be the least healthy. Perhaps that’s part of what makes certain foods that little bit more tasty – the secret joy of enjoying something which is just a tiny bit wicked. The job for scientists and food technologists over recent years therefore has not been simply a case of determining which foodstuffs we should be eating but also ma...

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Vietnam Fisheries Export Industry Forecasts Healthy Revenue For 2019

Forecasts suggest that 2019 is likely be another year when the fisheries export industry in Vietnam see increased revenues. However, experts warn that the industry must enhance the quality of seafood products in order to reach this year’s production goal. Vietnam fisheries exports are thriving. A recent report suggested that the expected revenue from the industry is likely to hit $10 billion (an increase of 10% on last year’s exports) by the end of 2019. Nguyan Ngoc Oai, the acting director o...

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Confronting the Issues of Nutrition in Southeast Asia

The advance of technology continues to enhance both the amount and quality of food available to the world’s populations. Medical science works in tandem with the agriculture industry to streamline food processing in order to make the most nutritious foodstuffs available globally. Consumers are educated about how food they are eating can affect their health and businesses provide necessary information on packaging re nutrition and consider sustainability issues. But there are still great extr...

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Traditional Farming Still Underpins Advances in Asian Food Industry

Over the last 20 or 30 years the food industry in south-east Asia has advanced greatly. As well as responding, as it must, to fundamental structural necessities and cultural trends, the new food systems has ultimately changed society within south east Asia as a whole. But as much as technological improvements are heralding a new social setup it must be remembered that behind the fancy headlines, traditional farming, eating and marketing is still very much alive and kicking.Beneath the New Te...

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Singapore Sets Sights On 2030 For Food Security Goals

With global warming leading to unpredictable climate changes, new technologies encouraging ever-increasing populations and affordability forever becoming a huge factor in accessibility to food resources, food security is now essential for all countries across the world. Asian countries are no different, but in many ways have a lot further to go than some of their wealthy western neighbours. Singapore, a country with little past recognition as a food and agricultural producer has taken up the ...

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African Swine Fever Hits Chinese Economy

African Swine Fever has hit China – the world’s biggest producer of pigs and consumers of pork. With every province in China now reeling from the spread of this fatal animal virus, the government’s only option has been to increase imports and more or less stop exports (apart from frozen pork) until the outbreak can be controlled. The change has been quite catastrophic and has hit the Chinese market, economy and culture in many ways.What Is African Swine Fever? The first case of the virus rec...

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How Asian Economies Are Experiencing A New Dawn

Even in the 21st century we still tend to think of the majority of Asian countries as poorer countries – most take it for granted that western economies and cultures are far more developed than their eastern counterparts. In visiting Asian countries, we kind of prepare ourselves for a world without the creature comforts we know so well.Things are about to change. In fact, things are changing for some time as the Asian economy gathers strength and is beginning to parallel western cultures.The ...

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Asian Countries Decriminalize Cannabis for Medical Purposes

Cannabis has hit the headlines again over the last few months and continues to cause controversy. For some it is a harmless recreational drug, for others it is a concern not only because of its effect on the mind and its links with addiction, but because it can lead casual users to experimenting with more dangerous substances. Whichever view you may have, there is no getting away from the scientific facts that cannabis has medicinal qualities. After many years of cannabis being locked away in...

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Can Packaging Help Reduce Food Waste?

Healthy Food Trending in Malaysia

Vietnam Fisheries Export Industry Forecasts Healthy Revenue For 2019

Confronting the Issues of Nutrition in Southeast Asia

Traditional Farming Still Underpins Advances in Asian Food Industry

Singapore Sets Sights On 2030 For Food Security Goals

African Swine Fever Hits Chinese Economy

How Asian Economies Are Experiencing A New Dawn

Asian Countries Decriminalize Cannabis for Medical Purposes

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