Dec 5, 2022 | Food Safety Africa Magazine

Perfo Tec invents laser micro-perforated bags to extend produce shelf life

Dec 5, 2022Jan 10, 2023

NETHERLANDS – Perfo Tec, a modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) supplier in the fresh produce industry, is employing laser micro-perforation technology to improve the quality and shelf life of packaged fresh products. “Retailers are currently hugely concerned with saving and sustainability. A welcome development for this Dutch company that, by using laser micro-perforation technology, modifies the packages’ atmosphere that improves the…

Standard Organisation of Nigeria celebrates Golden Jubilee

Dec 5, 2022Jan 10, 2023

NIGERIA – The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has during its 50th anniversary noted that the agency has adopted 213 Nigerian Industrial Standards (NIS) to check the proliferation of fake products in the country. Mallam Farouk Salim, SON’s Director General highlighted that the organization had gone through a lot of transformation and evolved to become a standards regulatory body of…

CropLife teams up with NAFDAC to boost Nigeria’s agricultural exports

Dec 5, 2022Jan 10, 2023

NIGERIA – CropLife Nigeria, an international organization that promotes advancements in crop protection and plant biotechnology in collaboration with National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has embarked on training agrochemical dealers on how to handle pesticides during planting and the post-harvesting period. This is to help the country curtail the rejection of Nigeria‘s agricultural produce at…

International Potato Center creates blight-resistant potato varieties

Dec 5, 2022Jan 10, 2023

KENYA/NIGERIA – The International Potato Center (CIP) is creating genetically modified late blight-resistant potato varieties through its Feed the Future global biotech potato partnership in Kenya and Nigeria. These varieties will cut farmer losses by 15 to 30 percent and at least 90% of the current ksh1.8 billion (U.S$14,669,927) annual cost in fungicides. Late blight of Potatoes caused by Phytophthora…