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Food fraud: 6 of the most commonly faked products and how to avoid them

Food fraud: 6 of the most commonly faked products and how to avoid them

If you’re a smart shopper you may always be on the lookout for counterfeit bags, shoes and watches when heading […]

Food Industry News

Chinese consumers are practically getting free meals as a result of brutal battle among China’s food-delivery apps

Chinese consumers are practically getting free meals as a result of brutal battle among China’s food-delivery apps

China’s tech companies are known to offer especially generous subsidies to take over niche markets. The upshot for users is […]

Food Industry News

Chicken’s Million Steps to the cooking pot

Chicken’s Million Steps to the cooking pot

SHIJIAZHUANG (Hebei) – A farm in China is taking the idea of free-range chicken seriously – each fowl wears an […]

Technical Solutions

Significant drop in demand for rockmelons after listeria scare: Fruit suppliers

Significant drop in demand for rockmelons after listeria scare: Fruit suppliers

SINGAPORE: Demand for rockmelons has fallen sharply in Singapore following a recent listeria infection outbreak in Australia, with some suppliers reporting a fall in sales […]

Technical Solutions

Do you know about Acacia Gum and the role it plays in the food industry?

Do you know about Acacia Gum and the role it plays in the food industry?

  Alland & Robert, France based supplier of food additive Acacia gum has done a study on the nutritional knowledge […]

Food Regulatory

Difference between Halal and Halalan-Toyyiban

Difference between Halal and Halalan-Toyyiban

HALAL is an Arabic word connoting a state of permissibility for objects or actions according to Syariah principles. The Quran […]

Community

DPO International welcomes the Belgian Delegation for Halal Hub2Hub North Port-Liege Mission

DPO International welcomes the Belgian Delegation

DPO International recently hosted the Belgian Delegation for the HALAL Hub2Hub North Port-Liege Mission on the 6th of April 2018 […]

Health & Nutrition

Wild salmon versus farmed salmon: Which is healthier?

Wild salmon versus farmed salmon: Which is healthier?

It is often assumed that wild seafood is healthier because it comes from natural sources, while farmed seafood contains parasites […]

Technical Solutions

Banana sugar and cricket protein start-ups among the finalists for Mekong accelerator programme

Banana sugar and cricket protein start-ups among the finalists for Mekong accelerator programme

Start-ups including a Cambodian firm that produces a unique banana sugar and a Vietnam cricket protein company are among the […]

Health & Nutrition

India’s child stunting can’t be stopped unless poverty kept in check

India's child stunting can't be stopped unless poverty kept in check

In the 1970s, undernutrition was a common problem in the urban slums and poorer regions of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. Brazilian health crusader […]

Food Regulatory

Fourth person dies in Australia from contaminated melon

Fourth person dies in Australia from contaminated melon

SYDNEY: A fourth person has died after consuming melon contaminated with listeria, Australian authorities said Wednesday (Mar 7), in an […]