Agape Innovations Ltd launches app to compliment ICIPE’s Push-Pull farming technology

AFRICA – Agape Innovations Ltd, a creative company solving agricultural problems using innovative agro-inputs, in collaboration with a  team of scientists from the University of Leeds, Keele University and International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) has developed a mobile app christened, Push-Pull app, to enable African farmers to adopt environmentally friendly ways of protecting their crops from pests,…

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RizePoint debuts Platform Ignite for Supplier Certification Management

U.S – RizePoint, a technology leader in food safety, quality management, compliance, and social responsibility, has launched their innovative new product platform Ignite, a trailblazing software tool for quality managers.  The first offering on this new platform is a user-friendly, affordable Supplier Certification Management solution.Ignite Supplier Certification Management allows companies to gather, organize, and manage supplier documentation and information in…

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Hats off for Australia’s One Harvest as it rolls out SmartWash System to enhance food safety

Australia – One Harvest, Australia’s leading leafy greens and fresh-cut produce supplier has taken its sanitation a notch higher by installing SmartWash Solutions’ comprehensive food safety program throughout their Australian operations, becoming the company’s largest customer outside the United States. SmartWash Solutions is an industry leader in food safety technology, helping processing plants around the world maximize food safety, achieve…

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Agri-Tech firm CropIn partners with Tanzanian food processor Unyiha Associates to improve produce quality

TANZANIA – CropIn, a leading SaaS (software as a service) solutions provider to agri-businesses has announced its partnership with food processing company Unyiha Associates for digital transformation of the agricultural ecosystem in Tanzania and the east African region. Through the partnership, CropIn will offer a comprehensive solution aiming at the complete digitization of the Tanzanian agriculture ecosystem value chain to…

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SecQuAL Project awarded funding by ISCF to enable smart labelling in pork production

UK – A group of eleven UK companies has been awarded funding by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), a government project that addresses the big societal challenges being faced by UK businesses, for their project Secure Quality Assured Logistics for Digital Food Ecosystems ( SecQuAL), designed to bring technology to the fore in the farm-to-fork ecosystem.  The project will…

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AOAC validates TAAG Genetics’ PCR Assay TAAG F41 VIP kit as Protera closes US$ 10M financing round

U.S – TAAG Genetics, an international genetics and informatics laboratory, has announced that its TAAG F41 VIP kit, a multiplex real-time PCR assay capable of detecting four separate foodborne pathogens in a single reaction, has been accorded Performance Tested Methods status from the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) Research Institute. AOAC promotes and conducts activities to help develop, improve,…

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Researchers develop AI Technology capable of predicting food decay

INDIA – A group of 8 students undertaking an AI & Machine Learning Programme from India’s leading Ed-Tech company, Great Learning, have revealed that  implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the food safety departments can help food and beverages, and hotel industry to minimise losses owed to food decay, by studying its current temperature thus predicting the rotting of the…

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Government boosts food safety by funding foodborne, AMR pathogens surveillance program

UK -The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), UK has welcomed a new £19.2 million ( USD 26697580.80) funding for a cross-Government surveillance programme to improve the detection and tracking of foodborne and antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens through the agri-food system. The £19.2m, awarded through the Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund, will support a three-year project to develop a pilot national surveillance network.…

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FSSAI deliberates on using advanced technological tools to ascertain food quality, safety

INDIA – Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has said it is exploring the possibility of using next generation technological tools like blockchain and machine learning to ensure food safety and quality. Such tools assume importance as the current pandemic situation has negatively affected many aspects of routine regulatory inspections, monitoring and surveillance at both the domestic level…

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Illumina partners with Sanigen to help NGS platform technology penetrate South Korean market

U.S – Sanigen, a South Korean-based molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics company, has announced that it will become a channel partner (distributor) in the region for Illumina, the world’s leading genome sequencing company. The partners will work together to deliver Illumina’s Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platform technology to the food safety and microbiology sector in South Korea. NGS is a massively…

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