Jersey Royals are set to hit the shelves of shops up and down the country over the next couple of weeks as the new season gathers momentum. Hopes are high for the 2010 crop following a good yield in 2009. Jersey Royals are the first genuine new potato of the season, which typically starts in [...]

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I’m not usually a great fan of ‘gala dinners’; like most journalists I find them about as interesting and productive as an evening with Gordon Brown. Credit where it’s due though, the recent ‘bash’ at the Dorchester Hotel in London given by the South African fruit industry was both informative and fun – even if [...]

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New facility in Spain will process up to 400,000 tonnes of local citrus from 57 suppliers to produce up to 100 million litres of juice Tetra Pak, the world leader in food processing and packaging solutions, and Zumos Valencianos del Mediterraneo S.A. (Zuvamesa), a consortium of 57 fresh citrus producers, announce the start of production [...]

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Revolutionary treatment launched to combat insects in food manufacturing industry Wednesday 3rd March, 2010: Following three years of research and extensive testing, Rentokil can announce a new chemical-free pest control process called ‘Entotherm’ http://www.rentokil.co.uk/technical-support/our-products-and-services/insect-control/entotherm/index.html which can eliminate insect pests that affect the food manufacturing industry through the application of dry transferrable heat. The treatment is [...]

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Rentokil and Initial Foodguard join forces to eliminate pests from factory premises 12th January 2010: Rentokil and Initial Foodguard today announce a new joint service, the Unique Business Protection System, for the food manufacturing industry. The new service combines expert pest control by Rentokil and specialist food factory cleaning by Initial Foodguard to help prevent [...]

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